Bio
Setare Arashloo is a multi-disciplinary artist who is interested in the intersections of art and social, political and labor movements. She is interested in personal accounts of historical events and her artistic researc explores the creative ways of documenting and archiving them. She graduated with an MFA in Studio Ar from Queens College and an Advanced Certificate in Critical Social Practice from Social Practice Queen (SPQ). She has received several grants and fellowships for her individual and collaborative works including Kahn/ Mason SIP Fellowship at Elizabeth Foundation, Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights, Montes Press Writing Grant, AIM fellowship from Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Archie Green Fellowship for Workers Art Coalition from America Folk Art Center. She had worked as a museum and art educator in different institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Queens College, and Empire State College (SUNY). Her works have been exhibited internationally in the US, Iran, Afghanistan, France, Germany, and Australia, She lives and works between New York and Tehran.
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EDUCATION
2017-2018 Advanced Certificate in Critical Social Practice (SPQ), Queens College, CUNY, New York
2013-2015 MFA in Studio Art, Queens College, CUNY, New York
2012-2013 Post-Baccalaureate of Fine Art, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore
2007-2011 BA in Painting, University of Tehran, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tehran
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2018 Mark, Knock, Stitch, screening at Year Light Festival at DUMBO, New York
2016 Workers Art Coalition, Cinema Village, Workers United Film Festival, New York
2016 Precarious Workers Pageant, Union Docs, Workers United Film Festival, New York
2015 Knitted Camps, Azad Gallery, Tehran
2015 Who Built Your Architecture? Precarious Workers Pageant, video screening and panel discussion, The James Gallery, The Center For The Humanities, Graduate Center, New York
2015 Workers Art Coalition, video screening and panel discussion, Queens Art Council, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Tehran-Seattle, curated and organized by a.n.t.i.p.o.d.e, Seattle, US
2022 Drawing Drawing, Annual of Contemporary Drawing, Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran, Iran
2021 Artilade Plus/Minus 2020, online exhibition hosted by ARTILADE magazine
2020 Postcards From The Pandemic, Beard and Weil Gallery, Wheaton College, Massachusetts, US
2019 Art Workers Won’t Kiss Ass and Eat Flowers, La Box Gallery, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arte, Bourges, France
2018 Taklif: Ideas of Femininity, Fofa Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2018 Mark, Knock, Stitch, Music Performance in collab with Iran Sanadzadeh, Light Year Festival, Adelaide, Australia
2018 Endnotes, The Chimney, New York, US
2017 Memories of Future Landscape, El Museo Del Los Sures, New York, US
2017 Art of “Whose” People, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US
2017 Landscape Up Close, Niavaran Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran
2017 Bronx Calling: The 4th AIM Biennale, Bronx Museum, New York, US
2017 The Archive of Effects, Culture Push, Nurture Art, New York, US
2017 Mark, Knock, Stitch, Performance in collab with Iran Sanadzadeh, Panoply Performance Lab, New York, US
2016 Material Archive, Curated by Adriana Pauly, Klapper Gallery, Queens College, New York, US
SELECTED HONORS, RESIDENCIES, AWARDS
2023 Elizabeth Foundation, Kahn/ Mason SIP Fellowship, NY, US
2022 Sitka Center for the Art and Ecology, Artist Residency, OR, US
2021 Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights, US
2020 Artist For Artist (AFA) Masterclass and AFA mini-grant, online
2020 Montes Press Writing Grant, London, UK
2020 Artist Relief Grant, US
2020 Museum Workers Relief Fund, Museum Workers Speak, US
2018 LungA School teaching artist in residence, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
2018 Art in Action fellowship, Social Practice Queens, New York
2017 AIM fellowship, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
2016 Archie Green Fellowship for Workers Art Coalition, American Folk Art Center, Washington DC
2015 Byrdcliffe Artist Residency and Fellowship, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, NY
2015 Research and travel grant from Gulf Labor Coalition, Venice
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, PRESS, REVIEWS
2022 Wirewomen: Lighting it Up- What It's Like to be a Female Union Electrician, Hard Ball and Little Heroes, NY
2022 Freedom Rides Persian Podcast: A Journey Through the South and the Civil Right Landmarks, Setare S. Arashloo, NO NIIN, Issue 12, 06.22, Finland
2021 Freedom Rides Persian Podcast, published on all podcast platforms
2020 Seance, Montes Press online publication, London
2019 Workers Art Coalition, Nameye Azad, No# 7, Tehran
2019 Body (In) Over the City, self-published artist book
2017 From Books by Black Woman to Electricians’ Stories, a Show Catalogues Alternative Archives, Jillian Steinhauer, Hyperallergic, April 11
2017 Like A Dote on the Margins of a Book, Nameye Azad, No# 5, Tehran
2016 Curator Talk by Adriana Pauly on “Material Archive” exhibition, Artreport Digital Publication, April
2015 At Venice Biennale Artists Stage a Pageant for Precarious Workers in Abu Dhabi by Gretchen Coombs, Hyperallergic, Sep 1
Cargo Collective 2017 — Frogtown, Los Angeles