CV

Texts / Interviews

• Profile: Galleries for grieving, En Liang Kong, Financial Times, 2022
• Review (solo): Abbas Zahedi at Nottingham Contemporary, Texte Zur Kunst, 2023
• Essay: A Matter of Use: Abbas Zahedi at South London Gallery, Elliot Gibbons, 2020
• Interview: To Support Each Other, Titus Nouwens, Metropolis M (tr. Dutch), 2023
• Excerpt: Empathic Loops and Open Poetics, ” ” #7, NERO & La Becque Editions, 2023
• Essay: Rooms We Leave Behind, Alessandro Rabottini, Mousse 82, 2023
• Essay: Frieze Artist Award, Eva Wilson, Frieze Week Magazine, 2022
• Review (solo): Metatopia 10013, Kaleem Hawa, ARTFORUM, 2022
• Interview: On the Rituals of Grieving, Jamila Prowse, FRIEZE, 2022
• Essay: Dissociative Realism, Arsalan Isa, 2022
• Press: Metatopia 10013, Anonymous, 2022
• Review: Ouranophobia by Sheena Patel, Rough Trade Books, 2022
• Essay: Abbas Zahedi: 11&1, Toby Upson, Belmacz, 2021
• Review: Sonic Support Group, Roisin Tapponi, FRIEZE, 2021
• Interview: To The Sour Sowers, The Mosaic Rooms, 2021
• Interview: Fear of heaven, Kashif Sharma-Patel, AQNB, 2021
• Review (solo): Ouranophobia SW3, Hammad Nasar, Ocula, 2021
• Review (solo): Ouranophobia SW3, Chloe Carroll, Art Monthly, 2021
• Interview: Ouranophobia SW3 (solo), Adam Hines-Green, 2020
• Interview (video): South London Gallery (solo), 2020
• Interview (audio): The Suite (212) Sessions with Juliet Jacques, 2020
• Essay: Transactional Objects, Cedric Fauq, Mousse Magazine 71, 2020
• Review (solo): How to Make a How from a Why?, The White Pube, 2020
• Review: AMRA, Spike Island, Amy Grace, Bristol24/7, November 2019
• Review: ME, MYSELF & A I I I (2017), Laura O’Leary, 2018
• Interview: Jum’ah at the Tate: Abbas Zahedi, Amaliah.com, January 2018

Solo Exhibitions

• Holding a Heart in Artifice, Nottingham Contemporary, 2023.
• torre W11, Mahler-Lewitt Studios, Spoleto, Italy, 2023.
• Loading Loading, CAPC, Bordeaux, France, 2022-ongoing.
• Metatopia 10013, Anonymous Gallery, New York, 2022.
• 11 & 1, Belmacz, London, 2021.
• Ouranophobia SW3, Chelsea Sorting Office, London, 2020.
• How To Make A How From A Why?, Fire Station, South London Gallery, 2020.

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Shifting the Silence, Gianni Manhattan, Curated By, Vienna, 2023
• My Past is a Foreign Country, DEO projects, Chios island, Greece, 2023
• Divided Selves, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, 2023
• Horror in the Modernist Block, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2022
• The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, 2022
• Beuys Open Source, Belmacz, London, 2021-2022
• SPACE Artist Awards Exhibition, SPACE Ilford, 2022
• Testament, Goldsmiths CCA, London, 2022
• Temporary Compositions, Gallery 31, Somerset House, 2021-2022
• SUPASTORE SOUTHSIDE, SLINGBACKS & SUNSHINE, SLG, 2021
• D·E·VALUATION, Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète, France, 2021
• Governmental Fires, (cur. Cédric Fauq), FUTURA, Prague, 2021
• In Hindsight…, Bladr, Copenhagen, 2020
• B, Belmacz, London, 2019
• Degree Show, Central Saint Martins, London, 2019
• The Age of New Babylon, Lethaby Gallery, London, 2018
• Diaspora Pavilion, (ICF), Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 2018
• °c, clearview.ltd, London, 2018
• appetite, Apiary Studios, London, 2018
• Standing Block, Burlington Camden, Lincoln Projects, London, 2017
• Diaspora Pavilion, (ICF), Palazzo Pisani a Santa Marina, Venice, 2017
• rb&hArts, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, 2008

Selected Projects

• CRISIS, Bold Tendencies, London, 2023
• Sonic Signals, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, 2022-2023
• Waiting With {Sonic Support}, Frieze Artist Award, London 2022
• Brick Lane Foundation, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2021
• Sonic Support Group, Neurofringe, Chelsea Sorting Office, 2020 – ongoing
• To The Sour Sowers, The Mosaic Rooms, London, 2021
• The Boulevard, Tate Britain, London, 2018
• Studio Jum’ah, Tate Exchange, London, 2018
• BARBEDOUN via Square Root Soda Works, London, 2015 – 2017
• Sufra Food Bank & Kitchen, NW London, 2013
• Rumi’s Cave: Director & Resident Artist, London, 2013 – 2015

Fellowships / Residencies / Commissions

• Making Time, Artangel London, 2023
• Mahler & LeWitt Studios, Spoleto, Umbria, Italy, 2023
• Who is Abbas Zahedi?, Tate Kids, 2023
• Associate Artist: Postwar Modern, Barbican, London, 2022
• Brent Biennial 2022: Curatorial Committee, London, 2021 – 2022
• Becontree Forever, Create London, 2021
• Soul Refresher, Brent Biennial, London Borough of Culture 2020
• The Perfect Feeling, Rabbits Road Press & Bethlem Gallery, London, 2020
• Postgraduate Artist in Residence, South London Gallery, 2019/2020
• An Alternative Map of the Universe, ICF x Guest Projects, London, 2019
• The Boulevard, Tate Britain, London, 2018
• Studio Jum’ah, Tate Exchange, London, 2018
• Live Archive, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, 2018
• Agents of Creative Change, Battersea Arts Centre, London, 2018
• Formerly Called, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, 2018
• School for Social Entrepreneurs Fellowship, PwC, London, 2017

Performances / Dialogues / Interventions

• Experiments in Imagination, Conway Hall, Healing Justice London, 2023
• Between Earthly Beings and the Unknown Cosmic World: The Continent, The Július Koller Society, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2023
• What is dead, what do we let die, Studio Voltaire, London, 2022
• Asia Forum for Contemporary Art, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, 2022
• Live Tour of 60 Years: An Unfinished Conversation, Tate Britain, 2021
• Open Mic Meditation, YARMONICS, Great Yarmouth, UK, 2021
• Mixtape for the Displaced Meditation, Mf_D, 2021
• Radio Amnion, Technical University of Munich, 2021
• Urgent Lecture Performance, Royal College of Art, 2021
• Collaboration & Connection, Artangel, Online 2021
• Mental Health, Race & Masculinity, Healing Justice London, 2021
• Long Table: Lament, South London Gallery, 2020
• AMRA, Spike Island, Bristol, 2019
• Rose & STEMM, Guest Projects, London, 2019
• BLOCK UNIVERSE, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2019
• MANNA from below, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2019
• The Conch, curated by Cédric Fauq, South London Gallery, 2019
• Curriculum, Rabbit’s Road Press, 2018
• Metaphonica IV, Mercury KX Records, CSM, London, 2018
• 24h Livestream Residency, Youtube & King’s Cross, London, 2018
• Diaspora Pavilion, Closing Program, Venice, 2017
• Sonic Soundings, curated by Erika Tan, Online & Venice, 2017
• #FakeBooze, Diaspora Pavilion, Venice, 2017
• In conversation with Brian Patten, Bradford Literature Festival, 2015

Screenings

• We Don’t Know Where We Are In The Drama, Becontree Forever, Create, 2021
• #DeleteTheBeans, Artangel, online, 2021
• #DeleteTheBeans, HOAX publications, online, 2020
• Body Politics and Mental Territory, DOCLISBOA, Lisbon, 2019
• Beyond the Body curated by Mania Akbari, Wolf Cinema, Berlin, 2019
• Diaspora Pavilion Closing Program, Venice, 2017

Artist Publications

• ” ” #7 in conversation with Eva Wilson, NERO & La Becque Editions, 2023
• Audible Matter / Wave #6, Infrasonica, 2022
• semi-rational records of artchievement (artist book), Belmacz, 2021
• A Loss of Time?, Juf Project, Madrid, 2021
• Therapoiesis, ART WORK Magazine, issue two, 2021
• In This Space We Leave, Mixtape, South London Gallery, 2020
• Sermons, Rabbits Road Press & New Art Exchange, Nottingham, 2018

Public Collections

• Royal College of Art, 2021
• Tate, 2021

Trustee / Board Positions

• South London Gallery, 2021 – Present

Awards

• Frieze Artist Award, Frieze & Forma, UK, 2022
• Awards for Artists, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, UK, 2021
• Support Structures for Support Structures, Serpentine Gallery, UK, 2021
• SPACE Artist Awards, UK, 2021
• Thinking Time, Artangel, UK, 2020
• Jerwood Arts Bursary, 2019
• Aziz Foundation Academic Scholarship, 2018
• Khadijah Saye Memorial Fund Scholarship, 2017
• Annie Blaber Scholarship, Dounie Trust, 2017
• UCL Union Centenary Social Colours, 2008

Education

• MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies, Fine Art Programme, Central Saint Martins, 2017-2019 – Merit
• MBBS Medicine, University College London, 2006-2011 – discontinued due to personal hardship.
• BSc. Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, 2002-2006 – first class honours, Dean’s list & faculty prize.

Academic

• Curating Nation, UAL, BAN, Yale, PMC, Tate, UK, 2021
• Guest Lecture: Central Saint Martins, London, 2021
• Guest Lecture: The Urgency of The Arts Assembly, Royal College of Art, 2021
• The Art of Disengaging, Royal College of Art, 2020
• European Forum for Advanced Practices, BAK, Utrecht, 2020 (postponed)
• Asia Art Activism Research Network, Raven Row, London, 2018
• Of Other Futures, Lethaby Gallery, London, 2018
• TrAIN Co-Lab Artist Research Residency, UAL, 2019/2020
• Belief & Conflict Forum, Kings College London, 2014-2015
• Fish Bar Symposium, Grove Fish Bar, London, 2010 – 2017

Teaching

• Associate Lecturer, MA Photography, Royal College of Art, UK, 2020-ongoing
• Visiting Tutor, Sculpture MA, Royal College of Art, UK, 2020-2022
• Visiting Tutor, BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 2021-2022
• Visiting Tutor, FAHA, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 2021-2022
• Visiting Tutor, Visual Comm. MA, Royal College of Art, UK, 2020-2021
• Guest Lecturer, London Metropolitan University, School of Art, 2021
• Guest Lecturer, Kingston School of Art, London, 2021
• Visiting Tutor, BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, London, 2021
• Visiting Tutor, Edinburgh College of Art, UK, 2020
• Visiting Tutor, MFA, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 2020

Selected Press / Publications

• Review: Horror in the Modernist Block, Burlington Contemporary, 2023
• Featured: Artists to Watch Innovators, Artnet, 2022
• Featured: Monopol Magazine, Patricia Grzonka, 2022
• Interview: Artist Profile by Charlotte Jansen, The Art Newspaper, 2022
• Review: why postwar British art has never been more relevant, The Guardian, 2022
• Featured: 5 Notable Exhibitions Opening in New York This Week, ARTnews, 2022
• Featured: Bringing the Biennial Home, Eliel Jones, ArtReview, 2022
• Curation: 5 Films curated by Abbas Zahedi, Cryptofiction, 2021
• Featured: New Commissions by Leading Artists in Dagenham, FAD Magazine, 2021
• Featured: How can art and design bring people together to improve our mental health?, Jamila Prowse, It’s Nice That, 2021
• Featured: But Is It Art?, Taylor Le Melle, ArtReview, 2021
• Featured: Top Ten Shows from the UK and Ireland, Mimi Chu, Frieze, 2021
• Podcast: Art By Stealth: Chaired by critic Hettie Judah, ArtReview, 2021
• Radio: Fugitive Voices feat. Abbas Zahedi, Movement Radio (Athens), 2021
• Featured: Art by stealth, Hettie Judah, ArtReview, 2021
• Featured: Standout Artists of 2020, Elephant Magazine, 2020
• Featured: Brent Biennial, Hettie Judah, The Guardian, 2020
• Featured: Brent Biennial, Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper, 2020
• Featured: Brent Biennial review, Peter Scott, Apollo, 2020
• Featured: Essential Artists: Abbas Zahedi, Elephant Magazine, 2020
• News: Artangel: Thinking Time, The Guardian, 2020
• Featured: Artist To Watch: Abbas Zahedi, Contemporary Art Society, 2020
• Featured: Curating for the Age of Blackness, Cedriq Fauq, Mousse, 2019
• Featured: SINK.SEXY x Abbas Zahedi, 2019
• Letter: British artists lament the value of art in schools, The Guardian, 2018
• News: Diaspora Pavilion | Venice to Wolverhampton, E-Flux, February 2018
• Spotlight: Diaspora Pavilion, Art Quarterly [ArtFund], Spring 2018
• News: Transforming an artist’s studio for prayer, Art Radar Journal, January 2018
• Opinion: Arts + Culture with Kazim Rashid, DAZED, January 2017
• Letter: Artists demand swift justice for Grenfell victims, The Guardian, 2017
• Television: Venice Biennale, Britain’s New Voices, BBC Two, 2017
• News: Diaspora Pavilion: Venice Biennale, Contemporary Art Society, 2017
• Television: Peter Yorke’s Hipster Handbook, BBC Four, 2016
• Feature: BARBEDOUN, Huffington Post, 2015
• Featured: OOMK zine, ISSUE 2: PRINT, 2013
• Featured: Cultural Crossroads, Roxane Zand, Sotheby’s Blog, 2012