CV
Education
2015-18 MFA, The Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, OH, OSA / Printmaking
2011-15 BFA, Cum Laude, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT, USA / Sculpture
2010-11 Art Academy of Cincinnati (AAC), Cincinnati, OH, USA / Sculpture
2002-04 Tehran University College of Fine Arts, Tehran, Iran / Industrial Design/Sculpture
Solo Exhibitions
2024 The Itch, Solito Gallery, Naples, Italy
Rapscallions, Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Studio Visit, Emma Gray HQ, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2023 Pin-Drop, Duane Thomas Gallery, NYC, USA
The Quiet Path To Otherwhere, Online, Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK
2022 Dirty Words & A Melody, Wilder Gallery, London, UK
Stubbly Numbness, Emma Gray HQ, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2018 Forty-one Drawings and Prints 2016-18, California State University Art Gallery, Stanislaus, Turlock, CA, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Portrait of an Artist, Cob. Gallery, London, UK
Dad Bods, The Hole Bowery, NYC, USA
Portrait of A Man, X Museum, Beijing, China
2023 Painters - London, Half Gallery Annex, NYC, USA
Queer Intimacy, Taymour Grahne Projects, Cromwell Place, London, UK
2022 Hometown Session London, Edji Gallery, London, UK
Paper, BEERS LONDON, London, UK
Danse Macabre, Samuele Visentin, London, UK
It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times, Duane Thomas Gallery, NYC
Slow Songs, Quappi Projects, Louisville, KY
2021 Strange Paradigm, Young Space Views, Online
2020 3 Person Exhibition, Morteza Khakshoor, Jerry Kowalsky, Moley Talhaoui: Humoral Theory, BEERS London, UK
Intaglio Online Exhibition, Megalo Print Studio, Kingston, Australia
2020 Ink, Press, Repeat: National Juried Printmaking and Book Art Exhibition, William Paterson University, Wyne, NJ
2019 Delphian X Guts, The Factory, London, UK
Open Door 15, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
37th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Bradley University Galleries, Peoria, IL
2018 Multilayered: New Prints 2018/Summer, International Print Center, New York, NY (catalogue)
2018 Pacific States Biennial North American Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii, Hilo, HI (catalogue)
On Paper Contest, Spike Print Studio, Bristol, UK
One: Annual Emerging Artist Exhibit, Cleve Carney Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL
2018 Art From the Heartland Exhibition, Indianapolis Art Center, IN
2017 3rd Annual Hand Pulled Prints Exhibition, Site: Brooklyn, New York, NY
2015 58th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Arts, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua, NY (curated by Hrag Vartanian)
Art Fairs Participations
2025 Expo Chicago with Sarai Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Art Dubai with Sarai Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2024 Expo Chicago with Duane Thomas Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2023 CAN Art Fair with Lungren Gallery, Ibiza, Spain
2023 London Art Fair with Cactus Moon Studio, London, UK
Art on Paper Brussels with Edgi Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2022 NADA Miami 2022 with Emma Gray HQ, Chimera, Miami, FL, USA
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2022 with Oliver Projects London, UK
2020 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2020, London, UK
2019 Art on Paper 2019 with The International Print Center New York (IPCNY), The Tunnel, NYC, USA
2018 2018 Edition Artists Book Fair (E/AB) with The International Print Center New York (IPCNY), NYC, USA
Selected Awards/Fellowships/Scholarships
2022 The Lighthouse Works Fellowship, The Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY, USA
2019 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, USA
Artist in Residence Fellowship, Emmanuel College Residency Program, Boston, MA, USA
2018 The Inaugural Emerging Artist Award, 2018 Edition/Artists’ Book Fair (E/AB Fair), NYC, USA
Juror's Award, 2018 Pacific States Biennial North American Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii,
Hilo, HI, USA
State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Recognition Award, 2018 Pacific States Biennial North
American Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii
Best in Show Award, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Artist in residence, International Print Center New York (IPCNY), NYC, USA
2017 Fergus Scholarship Award, Columbus, OH, USA
2015 University Fellowship, OSU, Columbus, OH, USA
2015 Distinction in Printmaking and Sculpture, LACFA, Old Lyme, CT, USA
Stephen & Lynne Wardlaw Prize for Excellence in Sculpture, LACFA, Old Lyme, CT, USA
VACI Partners Award, Second Prize at the 58th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Arts,
Chautauqua, NY, USA
2013 The Roger T. Williams Prize, 2nd Prize at the Annual Figure Modeling Competition, National Sculpture
Society (NSS), NYC, USA
2011-15 Chandler Scholarship, LACFA, Old Lyme, CT, USA
2011 First Year Excellence Award, AAC, Cincinnati, OH, USA
2011-12 National Sculpture Society Scholarship, NYC, USA
Artist Residencies
2022 Lighthouse Works residency, Fishers Island, NY, USA
2020 In Cahoots Residency, Petaluma, CA, USA
Tamarind Institute's Student Collaboration Residency, Albuquerque, NM, USA
2019 Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT, USA
Emmanuel College Residency, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA, USA
2018 International Print Center New York Artist in Residence, NYC, USA
2015 Chautauqua Institution Summer Residency Program, Chautauqua, NY, USA
2014 Chautauqua Institution Summer Residency Program, Chautauqua, NY, USA
Selected Press
2024 Morteza Khakshoor / Post Picasso, Joxtapoz Magazine, vol. 32, no. 232, 2024
New American Paintings #169, Dec. 2023
2023 Morteza Khakshoor / A Portfolio Of Drawings: Martyrs .” McSweeny's Quarterly Concern, no. 70, 2023
2022 Morteza Khakshoor / Artist Interview, PLATFORM, November 2022
Morteza Khakshoor's Attention to the Male Is Striking.” Art of Choice, 15 Oct. 2022.
2021 Anniversary Issue 25.” ArtMaze Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
Morteza Khakshoor: Manifestations,VAST Magazine, 8 Nov. 2021
Morteza Khakshoor’s Modes of Representation / Interview, Vast Magazine, NO. 03, Sept. 2021
2018 Morteza Khakshoor / Forty-One Drawings and Prints 2016-18” California State University, Stanislaus,
Exhibition Catalog, 2018
2018 Pacific States Biennial North American Print Exhibition” University of Hawaii Hilo Art Department.
Multilayered: New Prints 2018/Summer, IPCNY, NY, 18 July 2018.
2016 Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC 2016, Witness & Memory Magazine, Spring 2016
Public Collections
X Museum, Beijing, China
Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, NYC, USA
Bunker Collection, Palm Beach, FL, USA
University of Hawaii, Hilo, HI, USA
Syracuse University Art Museum, NY, USA