Bio
Setare Arashloo was born and raised in Tehran. She holds a BA in Painting from the University of Tehran, a post-baccalaureate certificate in Fine Art from Maryland Institute College of Art, and an MFA in Studio Art from Queens College, CUNY. Setare is a current Advanced Certificate candidate at Social Practice Queens (Queens College). She is an alumna of the AIM program at the Bronx Museum, and is represented by Azad Gallery in Tehran, Iran. Her works have been exhibited in Iran, US, Afghanistan, and Australia, France and Germany.
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EDUCATION
2017-2018 Advanced Certificate in Critical Social Practice, Social Practice Queens, Queens College CUNY
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
TEACHING
2019 Variety Topics in Arts Education, Secondary Education, and Youth Services Department, Queens College, CUNY, New York
2019 Cultural After School Adventures: Mural Project, Kupferberg Center for the Arts, New York
2018 Stop motion and animation workshop, gust teaching artist in residence at LungA Art, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
2015- 2018 Cultural After School Adventures: Animals at the Museum, Kupferberg Center for the Arts, New York
2016 Co-teaching Issues In Public Art: Visual Story Telling, Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies, SUNY Empire State College, New York
2014-2018 Persian Art, Language and culture, art history and stop-motion workshops, Pardis for Children, New York
2014 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Intro to Animation, Dustin Grella, Queens College, CUNY, New York
2014 Persian Art, Language and Culture, Yekibood Children, New York
2013 Graduate Teaching Intern, Interpretive Figurative Drawing, Warren Linn, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
2012 Graduate Teaching Intern, “Visual Journalism”, Warren Linn, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016-2018 Museum assistant and collection research, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, New York
2015-2018 Freelance documentary Filmmaking, New York
2015-2018 Artist studio assistant, Auguste Garuffi Studio, New York
2015-2016 Animator and Editor, Dusty Studio, New York
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 Marks On the Margin, Klapper Gallery, Queens College, New York
2015 Knitted Camps, Azad Gallery, Tehran
2015 Who Build 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
2014 Ventilation, in collaboration with Iran Sanadzadeh, Tenth and Gibson, Adelaide
2014 City Voyager, Naderi Cafe Gallery, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Art Workers Won’t Kiss Ass and Eat Flowers, La Box Gallery, Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Arte Bourges, Bourger
2018 Mark, Knock, Stitch, Music Performance in collaboration with Iran Sanadzadeh, Light Year Festival, Adelaide
2018 Taklif: Ideas of Femininity, Fofa Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal
2018 Endnotes, The Chimney, New York
2017 Memories of Future Landscape, El Museo Del Los Sures, New York
2017 Art of “Whose” People, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York
2017 Landscape Up Close, Niavaran Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran
2017 Bronx Calling: The 4th AIM Biennale, Bronx Museum, New York
2017 The Archive of Effects, Culture Push, Nurture Art, New York
2017 Mark, Knock, Stitch, Performance in collaboration with Iran Sanadzadeh, Panoply Performance Lab, New York
2016 Material Archive, Curated by Adriana Pauly, Klapper Gallery, Queens College, New York
2015 Video Snack 5, Vox Populi, Philadelphia
2015 Many Interacting Worlds, Curated by Heng-Gil Han, Slideshow Gallery, New York
2014 Are We Already Gone? Artists on the Art of Leaving, Flickerlab, New York
2014 Workers Pavilion, Open Engagement International Conference, Queens Museum, New York
2014 Queens Variety Slides, Queens Council on the Arts, New York
2014 Explorations revisited, Curated by A. M. Weaver, One Art Space Gallery, New York
2013 Crossing the Distance, Kaplan Gallery, Vis Arts, Rockville, Maryland
2011 Group Exhibition, Iranshahr Gallery, Iran Artists house, Tehran
2009 Group Exhibition, Khavaran Gallery, Shiraz
SELECTED HONORS, RESIDENCIES, AWARDS
2018 LungA School teaching artist in residence, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
2018 Art in Action fellowship, Social Practice Queens, New York
2017 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
2019 Workers Art Coalition, Nameye Azad, No# 7, Tehran
2019 Body (In) Over the City, self-published artist book
2018 Photo and animation Portfolio, The Felt online magazine, Issue 4
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 A Curator Talk by Adriana Pauly on “Material Archive” exhibition, Artreport Digital Publication, April 2
2015 At Venice Biennale Artists Stage a Pageant for Precarious Workers in Abu Dhabi by Gretchen
Coombs, Hyperallergic, Sep 1
2015 Writing on the Margin of a Common Experience: An Interview with Setare Arashloo about her exhibition titled “Knitted Camps”, Hafez Rohani, Honaronline, Aug 2015
2015 Visual Experiences of a “Flâneur”, Mehrnoush Alimadadi, Tandis Art Magazine, No. 304
2013 In Maisterra’s ‘Passing Through the Body,’ Aged is the Centerfold, Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, March 22
2013 Sanctions squeeze Iranian students abroad, Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, Jan 26
2012 Artis Profile, Memarnet Online Publication, 05/01/2012
Cargo Collective 2017 — Frogtown, Los Angeles