Born in Iran, 1978
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION
2003 MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY
2001 BFA, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010

• “Generation after Generation, Revelation After Revelation”, LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA

2009

• “Of Flame and Splendour”, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY

2007

• “Night Visions and Revolutionary Dreams”, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, NY

2006

• “Lightning, Thunder, Brimstone and Fire”, Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
• “Realms and Reveries”, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA (catalogue)

2004

• “Beyond the Borders, Between the Trees”, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010

• “ACCENTED”, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• “Pictures & Statues”, Country Club, Cincinnati, OH
• “roundaboutº”, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand; World Tour
• “Self-Consciousness”, co-curated by Peter Doig and Hilton Als,VeneKlasen/Werner, Berlin, Germany

2009

• “Fresh from Chelsea: 21 Young NYC Artists from the Lisa and Robert Feldman Collection”, University of Central Florida’s Art Gallery, Gainesville, FL
• “NEWAGERIOT”, Country Club, Los Angeles, CA
• “State of Mind”, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy

2008

• “Empire and Its Discontents”, Tufts University Art Gallery at the Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, MA
• “Wall Rockets, Contemporary Artists and Ed Rusha”, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
• “microwave, six” Josée Bienvenu, New York, NY
• “Warlord”, Amy Smith Stewart Gallery, New York, NY
• “A Sorry Kind of Wisdom”, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY

2007

• “Kamrooz Aram / Takahiko Iimura”, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
• “I will be alright”, Country Club, Cincinnati, OH
• “Cosmologies”, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
• “Collector’s Choice III”, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
• “Dream of Today”, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
• “Merging Influence: Eastern Elements in New American Art”, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

2006

• “A Tale of Two Cities, Busan Biennale 2006 Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Busan, Korea [catalogue]
• “Bricks In The Hood”, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, NY

2005

• “Time’s Arrow -> Twelve Random Thoughts on Beauty”, Rotunda, Brooklyn, NY
• “The Most Splendid Apocalypse”, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY
• “The Common Room”, Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
• “Greater New York 2005”, P.S.1/MoMA, Long Island City, NY [catalogue]
• “KA/VH:RA/AG Richard Aldrich, Kamrooz Aram, Amy Granat, Van Hanos”, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, NY

2003

• Group Exhibition, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, NY
• “Prague Biennale I”, Prague, Czech Republic [catalogue]
• “MFA Thesis Exhibition”, The Studebaker Building, New York, NY
• “The Broken Mirror”, Columbia University, New York, NY [catalogue/brochure]

2002

• “Process/ion”, Columbia University, New York, NY [brochure]
• “Multitude”, Artists Space, New York, NY [catalogue]

2001

• “Calligraphic Legacy”, Transamerica Building Lobby, San Francisco, CA

2000

• “November”, The H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
• “Mirror of the Invisible”, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, San Bernardino, CA [catalogue]

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010

• Pollack, Barbara. “Making an Impact.” ARTnews. May 2010: 84-91.
• Gyorody, Andrea. “Critic’s Picks: Kamrooz Aram.”
• Review of Generation After Generation, Revolution After Revelation, by Kamrooz Aram at LAXART.
• Artforum. Web. 3 March 2010. http://artforum.com/picks/section=la&mode=past#picks25031.

2009

• Vali, Murtaza. “New York, Kamrooz Aram: ‘Of Flame and Splendour,’ Perry Rubenstein Gallery, February 26-April 9, 2009.” Review of Of Flame and Splendour, by Kamrooz Aram, at Perry Rubenstein Gallery.
• Bidoun Magazine on the Web. Summer 2009 http://bidoun.com/18_kamrooz.php.
• Wolin, Joseph R. “Kamrooz Aram, ‘Of Flame and Spledour.’” Review of Flame and Splendour by Kamrooz Aram at Perry Rubenstein Gallery. Time Out New York. 2-8 April: 45.
• Rosenberg, Karen. “East in the Eye of This Beholder.” Review of Of Flame and Splendour, by Kamrooz Aram, at Perry Rubenstein Gallery. The New York Times. 22 March: 26.
• “Kamrooz Aram.” Review of Of Flame and Splendour, by Kamrooz Aram, at Perry Rubenstein Gallery.
• The New Yorker. 16, March: 27.
• Indiana, Gary. “Kamrooz Aram: Uneasy Delights.” Art In America. March: 110-121.

2008

• Art Asia Pacific Almanac. New York, NY: Art Asia Pacific Publishing LLC.
• Empire and Its Discontents. Medford, MA, Tufts University Art Gallery. [exhibition catalogue]
• Wall Rockets. Curated by Lisa Dennison. New York, NY: Flag Art Foundation.
• Bishop, Philip E. “Roots are showing at OMA; ‘Audacity’ may be misnamed, but the artworks do a fine job referencing the past.” Orlando Sentinel. Arts and Entertainment Review. 12 January. pE6.
• McQuaid, Cate. “’Empire’ strikes back: Artists examine identity politics of East and West.” Boston Globe. 26 October.
• Moshayedi, Aram. “The Burdens of Imaging: Kamrooz Aram’s Painted Elsewhere.” Reading Room: Transcendental Top. issue 02. p138-151.
• “Galleries.” Art Asia Pacific Almanac. vol 3. p119, 122.
• “Kamrooz Aram - 5BE Gallery.” Malibu Magazine. issue 2, February – March. p36.
• “Microwave.” New Yorker. Section: Goings on About Town: ART. 15 September.

2007

• Azimi, Negar. “Night Visions and Revolutionary Dreams.” Bidoun – Arts & Culture from the Middle East. Winter.
• Baker, R.C. Best In Show: “Kamrooz Aram, Night Visions and Revolutionary Dreams.” The Village Voice. 23 February.
• Caviness, Todd. “Daring displays.” Orlando Sentinel. 14 December.
• Lew, Christopher. “Projects in the Making… Kamrooz Aram: Trial By Fire,” Art Asia Pacific. July - August.
• Art Asia Pacific Almanac. New York, NY: Art Asia Pacific Publishing LLC.
• “Voices: Kamrooz Aram.” NYarts Magazine. November – December.
• Saltz, Jerry. “The Biggest Picture.” The Village Voice. 7 February.
• Collector’s Choice III-Audacity in Art: Selected Works from Central Florida Collections. Orlando, FL: Orlando Museum of Art.

2006

• Bayliss, Sarah H. “East Meets West Meets East”, ARTnews, Nov.
• Firstenberg, Lauri. “Excess of Subjectivity”, MASSMoCA Catalog Interview.
• Mitchell, John E. “Kamrooz Aram”. North Adams Transcript. Jan. 12
• Price, Matt. “Mixed Paint: A Survey of Contemporary Painters” Flash Art #239, Nov.-Dec.
• Weber, Rebecca L. “Art With Meaning”, Impressions Magazine. Oct.
• “Realms & Reveries” MASS MoCA, with an essay by Liza Statton [exhibition catalogue]

2005

• Smith, Roberta. “KA/VH:RA/AG”, The New York Times, Mar.18.
• Daftari, Fereshteh. “Kamrooz Aram”,Greater New York Book. PS1/MoMA.
• Greater New York. Ed. Klaus Biesenbach. New York, NY: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.

2004

• Bellini, Andrea and Sonia Campagnola. “I Nuovissimi Di New York: Dizionaario In Diretta Con La Nuova Pittura”, Flash Art (Italy) #246, June-July.
• Cotter, Holland, “Art in Review, Kamrooz Aram” The New York Times, Mar. 19.
• Gennochio, Benjamin. “How the Art Scene Became a Youthscape” The New York Times. Jan. 23.

2003

• The Broken Mirror. New York, NY: Columbia University.
• Prague Biennale. Prague, Czech Republic.

2002

• Cotter, Holland. “Art In Review; ‘Multitude’” The New York Times. Oct. 11.
• Firstenberg, Lauri. “Space and Subjectivity”, Multitude exhibition catalogue essay.
• Respini, Eva. “Process/ion: An Exhibition in Three Locations”, exhibition catalogue.
• Small, Irene. “Memory of Form”, Multitude exhibition catalogue essay.
• Multitude. New York, NY: Artists Space.
• Process/ion. New York, NY: Columbia University.

2000

• Mirror of the Invisible. San Bernardino, CA: Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum.