Elmira Abolhassani
Elmira Abolhassani
Born 1989, Mashhad, Iran, Based Lisbon, Portugal
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EDUCATION:
Master of Glass art and science technology, 2016, universidade de nova Lisboa, Portugal
B.A., Industrial Design, 2007-2011, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Like every day exhibition, Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Lisbon, July 2018
Reflection, Museu da Cidade de Almada,July 2016
Identity, library of universidade de nova Lisboa, July 2014
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Usefriti-unit8, Didar gallery, Tehran; Iran, Jan. 2024
Let the BAD speak, Fondazione 107, Turin, Italy, October, 2023
The 2nd Annual Event of IROMEDIA, Tech-Fac Museum, Tehran,Iran, September,2023
Kollon mena, Matrah market, Matrah, Oman, February, 2023
Glass Art week, Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venice, Italy, September, 2022
Manipulierte portrate, Art Active gallery, Passaau and Pri-Pri, Munchen, Germany, September, 2022
Glass is beautiful, Biot international glass festival,Municipal hall, Biot village, France, Aug-Nov, 2022
A presistencia da materia, glass museum, Marinha Grande, Portugal, May- September, 2022
Emersion, Santa croce church,San Raffaele Alto, Italy, April 2022
Manipulated Genes, Weber&Weber gallery, Turin, Italy, March 2022
Collect, Somerest house , London, United kingdom, February 2022
Prei-Phéro, Drim Gallery,Turin , Italy, October 2021
Twenty-Twenty, Online exhibition, Aknoon Gallery, Isfahan, Iran and Stal Gallery, Muscat, Oman, March 2021
Place of identity and dilemmas of the present, Online Sumac platform, Italy, December 2020
Young and loving, S12 Gallery, Bergen, Norway, October 2019
Redgate Gallery, Beijing, China, April 2019
Imargem Gallery, Almada, Portugal, May 2018
Festa in Solar dos zagalos, Solar dos zagalos, Jun,2017
Aura festival, Sintra, Portugal, August 2016
Imargem Gallery, Almada, Portugal, Jun 2016
Camões Library, Lisbon, Portugal, Jun 2015
Imargem Gallery, Almada, Portugal, Jun 2015
Library of universidade de nova Lisboa, February 2015
Montemor o Novo, Portugal, May 2014
Imargem Gallery, Almada, Portugal, Jun 2014
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ART RESIDENCIES:
Northland Creative, Lybster, Scotland, May 2023
Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China, April 2019
S12 Gallery, Bergen, Norway, September 2019
Awards AND TALKS:
Online talk, Sumac Space with the moderation of Basak Senova. February, 2021
winner of a Honorary Diploma of the Jutta Cuny-Franz Foundation 2021
Panelist of GAS( glass art society), Diversity + Racial Equity in Glass, December, 2020
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
BBC Persian, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iHOsXqn6qM,2023/12/10
Tehran Times, https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/488958/Local-Latin-American- artists-new-media-artwork-on-show-at-2nd, 2023/09/11/
Muscat daily, https://www.muscatdaily.com/2023/02/15/art-in-the-mart-muttrah- fish-market-offers-space-for-kullon-mena/ 15th February,2023
Omandaily,https://www.omanobserver.om/article/1132762/oman/environment/muttra h- fish-market-hosts-art-exhibition, 14th February,2023
The Arabian stories, https://www.thearabianstories.com/2023/02/17/kullon- mena-art-exhibition-explores-scars-of-war-and-displacement/ February,2023
E-Magazine by ArchiExpo, The Italian glass week:Artestic glass from Italy and abroad in Venice( https://emag.archiexpo.com/the-italian-glass-weeks- artistic-glass-from-italy-and-abroad-in-venice/),September, 2022
Neues glass new glass art and architecture , No3, 2021
Exibart, No114, Rome, November 2021
Exit, Ludvig Rage, Berlin,2021
TEACHING EXPERIENCE: ​​
Workshop: Iranian tiles and mirror mosaics journey through the history
FCT, University of Nova Lisboa, for master students of glass art and restoration and conservation 2019 and 2020
Main Course Teacher: Basic design workshop, basic visual art, introduction to the art in history
Seyrafi Art School, 2009-2011
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ART FAIR:
Collect (The leading international fair for contemporary craft and design), Somerest house , London, United kingdom, February 2022