Nikoo Tarkhani

Short Bio:

She is a visual artist. Her main fields are painting, video art, and performance art. Her oeuvre is focused on her experience as an Iranian woman. Her paintings are mostly self portraits picturing her nude and helpless, or in a traditional floral background or figures fading in their background with traditional patterns. She focused on “identity” as the main subject.

Group Painting Exhibition:

2014- “The Scarlet Letter” and “Regeneration” video arts screened at REDCAT Los Angeles- U.S
2013- “The Interior”- an exhibition of selected artists for PIX quarterly- Delhi Photo festival- Delhi- India
2013- video and film festival – Konsert Huset- Gothenberg- Sweden
2012- “There is a charge for the eyeing of my scars”-New Hall Art Collection-Murray Edwards College- Cambridge-UK
2010 Abu Dhabi Art fair-represented by Silk Road gallery -Abu Dhabi -UAE
2010 4th Beijing international art biennale –Beijing –China
2010 “Iranian Bodies”– Werkstattgallery- Berlin -Germany
2009 Florence biennale 2009 – Florence – Italy
2001-2016 participating in over 26 Solo and group exhibitions in Iran

2017 “With My Roots” by Capital Art London , Asia House , London- UK