Public Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom

Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, New York

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

The Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, India

The Bristol Museum, Bristol, United Kingdom

Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan

Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey

Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India

The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham Alabama

NYC Department of Education and Public Art for Public Schools, New York, New York

Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts

Solo Exhibitions & Projects

2025

To Those Whom No One Owns, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California

2024

Sky Carpet, Kahlil Gibran International Academy, Percent for Art and Public Art for Public Schools, Brooklyn, New York

2023

within the metamorphosis, Lila Acheson Auditorium (Asia Society Museum), New York, NY

Spirit Canopy, Asia Society Museum, New York, New York

2021–2024

My House, My Tomb, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California

2018

The Presence of Your Absence is Everywhere, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee

2017

Echo’s Chamber, Sophia Contemporary, London, United Kingdom

No More Disguise, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, New York

2016

Mångata, Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2014

Far from God, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, New York

2012

Suspended City, Bloom Projects, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California

2011

The Hidden State, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, New York

2010

Angels in Combat, Isabelle Van den Eynde Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Cages, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024–2025

Selections from the Permanent Collection, Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2023

Invitations to Tremble, curated by Brooke Lynn McGowan, Management Gallery, New York, New York

2022

Light Play, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama

Here After, Bridge Projects, Los Angeles, California

2021

Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians - The Mohammed Afkhami Collection, Asia Society Museum, New York, New York

2019

A Bridge Between You and Everything: An Exhibition of Iranian Women Artists, curated by Shirin Neshat, High Line Nine, New York

2018

Long, Winding Journeys: Contemporary Art and the Islamic Tradition, Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, New York

2017-2022

Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada, Asia Society Museum, New York, New York

2016-2021

Wondrous Worlds: Art & Islam through Time & Place, Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, Philbrook, Tulsa Oklahoma, Asia Society, Houston, Texas, Pheonix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Burlington, Vermont, Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

2016

Far from God, Art Expo Chicago In/Situ Outside, Jane Addams Memorial Park, Chicago, Illinois

2015

New Ways of Seeing, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York

2014

Far from God, Fields Sculpture Park, Art OMI International, Ghent, New York

The Language of Human Consciousness, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Past Tradition, Exhibit 320, New Delhi, India

2013

Love Me, Love Me Not, Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku, Azerbaijan Love Me Love Me Not: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbors, The 55th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, curated by Dina Nasser-Khadivi, Venice, Italy

2012-2015

Doris Duke's Shangri-La: Landscape Architecture and Art touring exhibition, The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii

2012

Doris Duke's Shangri-La: Landscape, Architecture and Art, Museum of Art and Design, New York, New York

Contemporary Iranian Art in the Permanent Collection, The Hagop Kevorkian Fund Special Exhibitions Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

Making Tents, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho

That Sinking Sense of Wonder, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2010

Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Structures within an Intervention, The Guild Art Gallery, New York, New York

Tehran – New York, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York, New York

Jameel Prize Exhibition, Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization, United Arab Emirates; Beiteddine Palace, Lebanon; National Museum of Damascus, Syria; National Gallery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2009

Jameel Prize Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom

Awards & Fellowships

2011

New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture

2009

Jameel Prize Winner, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom

Residencies

2010

Doris Duke Foundation, Honolulu, Hawaii