Mitra Tabrizian


Mitra Tabrizian is a British-Iranian photographer and film director. She is a professor of photography at the University of Westminster, London. Mitra Tabrizian has exhibited and published widely and in major international museums and galleries, including her solo exhibition at the Tate Britain in 2008. Her book, Another Country, with texts by Homi Bhabha, David Green, and Hamid Naficy, was published by Hatje Cantz in 2012.
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Early life and career

Born in Tehran, Iran, Tabrizian studied at the Polytechnic of Central London in the 1980s. Tabrizian published her first monograph, Correct Distance, in 1990. In 1992, she was included in a survey edition of Ten.8 magazine "Critical decade: Black British photography in the 80s". Her book of photographs, Beyond the Limits, is a critique of corporate culture and is inspired by the works of Jean Baudrillard and Jean-François Lyotard. Her films include Journey of No Return, The Third Woman, and The Predator.
Tabrizian has exhibited her work at the Tate, Modern Art Oxford, Gallery Lelong, New York, the Architectural Association, London, and numerous film festivals. In January 2018, she exhibited at London Art Fair with Arte Globale.

Publications

Films

  • The Third Woman – writer and director, 16 mm, 20 mins
  • Journey of No Return – writer and director, 16 mm, 23 mins
  • The Predator – writer and director, 35 mm, 28 mins
  • Gholam – writer and director, 94 mins

Solo exhibitions

  • Museum of Folkwang, Germany, 2003
  • Jenseits der Grenzen,, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2004
  • BBK, Bilbao, Spain, 2004
  • "The 1st at Moderna: Mitra Tabrizian," Moderna Musset, Stockholm, Sweden, 2006
  • "Mitra Tabrizian: This is that Place," Tate, London, 2008
  • Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin, 2008
  • "Mitra Tabrizian," Albion Gallery, London, 2009
  • 'Project B, Contemporary Art', Milan, 2011

Group exhibitions

The Selectors' Show, Camerawork, London, UK, 1984Mitra Tabrizian, Victor Burgin, Mari Mahr, The Photographers Gallery, London, UK,1986Shocks to the System: Social and Political Issues in Recent British Art from the Arts Council Collection, South Bank Centre, London, UK, 1991Fine Material for a Dream...? A Reappraisal of Orientalism, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, UK, 1992

Awards