SHAGHAYEGH CYROUS
b. Tehran, Iran, based in Los Angeles, California
shaghayeghcyrous @ gmail.com
EDUCATION
2017 MFA in Social Practice, California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco, CA
2010 BA in Visual Arts Studies, University of Science and Culture (USC), Tehran, Iran
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES / SCREENINGS
2024 Xvarnah, 9157 Sunset Boulevard, Moving Image Media Arts (MIMA), City of West Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
2023 When the Sun Rotates, In honor of Woman, Life Freedom Movement, Sales Force Tower, San Francisco, CA
2022 Golden Hour, Netflix Invisible Frame Billboard t 8743 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
2022. When the Sun Rotates, In honor of Mahsa Amini, Woman, Life, Freedom, Sales Force Tower, San Francisco, CA
2022 When the Sun Rotates, Iranian American Women Day, April 27, IAWF, Project of Jim Campbell Day for Night project Canvas on Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, CA
2022 “AMP Folktales” 2022 season, One of the 8th series of 8 episodes broadcasted monthly, California Arts Council, Oakland, CA
2020 The Window, Kottbusser Damm 68 Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2019 In Honor of..., (performance) 4 Waves: 40 Performances for the Hole, SOMARTS Culture Center, San Francisco, CA
2018 Radioactive Rug, Adobe Book, San Francisco, CA
2017 The House of Power, Four Elements Fitness, Oakland, CA
2015 Lost Rug Project, Meyer Library, Oakland, CA
2011 Motivation, Tehran East Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES
2021 The Journey سفر, with Keyvan Shovir, Artists Village Corner, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
2019. Language Project, North x North Festival, With Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova, Anchorage Museum, Alaska
2018
Language Project Workshop, With Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley, CA
Over Here Not Yet, With Renée Rhodes, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
The Essence of Threads, Sanctuary, For-Site Foundation, Fort Mason Chapel, San Francisco, CA
2017
Mother Song, The Mother Tongue Project, What We Offer is Free, (In Memory of Ted Purves), With Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova, Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA
Golden Class Language Breakfast, The Mother Tongue Project, Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Open Engagement, Chicago, IL
The Garden, Practice Social, With Camilla Hammer, Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2016
Critiquing United Nations, The Mother Tongue Project, SFArtNight, With Shirishti School in Bangalore, With Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova, India, UN Plaza, San Francisco, CA
The Language tour, With Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Museum in Museum, With Prima Sakuntabhai, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
The Language Project, Parking Lot Art Fair, With Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova San Francisco, CA
Unison Of Sky, The 5th festival of 30 performances, 30 Artists, 30 days, curated by Amir Rad, With Samira Davarfara, Tehran MOCA, and CCA in San Francisco, Iran/USA
2014
The Future of the Past, The Past of Future, the 4th festival of 30 performances, 30 artists, 30 days, With Samira Davarfara, Tehran East Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Red Carpet and Black Dandelion, With Sepa Sama, Solitary Collaborative Practice, Emeryville, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS/ SCREENING/ PERFORMANCES
2024 Manifest Differently, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2023 The New Commons, Curated by Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai, Prospect Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Cup Flows Over, Art From the Soul of Iran, Curated by Tim Blunk, Bergen Gallery, New Jersey, NY
2022
Zhian, The Touch of Sun, at Alien Race, LA Art Core, Los Angeles, CA
The Flow, Central Stage, and Artists Television Access, CA
Khamsa, Art Together, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
Peace Letter to Ukraine”, The Ukraine Darkroom, Alphabet Art Centre, Cologne, Germany
2021
Orbits/ Maddarha, Midnight Artists Collaboration, with Finely + Muse, Project of Jim Campbel Day for Night project Canvas on Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, CA
The Cycle, Eclipsed Body, Harmful Space, curated by Paria Vatankhah, Festival d'Oodaaq, Le lieu, Rennes in France
Bangkit Sama Sama/ Together We Rise, Clarion Alley Mural Project, Yogyakarta Indonesia & San Francisco, CA
Walking, Project 13, Central Stage, Richmond, CA
Bangkit Sama-Sama/ Arise Together, Cultural Exchange between the US and Indonesia, Clarion Alley Mural Project, San Francisco, CA
2020
When We Decide to End Themselves, Central Stage, Richmond, CA
The Archive to Come, Telematic Media Arts, San Francisco, CA
Sensibility against Violence, NewMedia fest 2020, IAM-Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
2019
Rock & Mortar, Video Installation Performance, With Kim Epifano and Epiphany Dance Theater, Z Space, San Francisco, CA
Everybody was Waiting, Part of In Honor of... The project, With Sholeh Asgary and Sahar Delijani, Artists Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, CA
Sensibility against Violence, Iranian Women artists, 25th International Video Art Festival of Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco
Once at Present, Contemporary Art of Bay Area Iranian Diaspora, Curated by Kevin Chen and Taraneh Hemami, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Forms & Figures, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
ART AND THE 4th DIMENSION, International Symposium on Conceptions of Time, Space and Movement in Art, The International Affairs Office of the College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Iran
Rock e Malta, ALTERNATIVA’s FRESH Festival, With Epiphany Dance Theatre, San Francisco, CA
2018
TRASLACION, Ctrl+Shft, Oakland, CA
No Smell Not Touch, Screening, Temescal Arts Center, Oakland, CA
Media Arts Film Screening, Kala Media Arts Fellows and Honorees, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Orium II, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
"A River Flowing," East of West Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Art Give Back, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
"You Had to Be There," Klozar Weaving, Swissnex, San Francisco, CA
Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Art Institutes, Berkeley, CA
2017
Pronounce My Name?, East of West, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Flush!, Site-Specific Video Installation, Concept 190, San Francisco, CA
A Window to Tehran, Commencement Exhibition 2017, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Wing, Art, and Crime, Organized by Kota Ezawa, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, CA
The Closest I Could Get to the Sun, MFA Thesis Exhibition, PFC, Wattis, San Francisco, CA
Debtfair (participating artist), a project of Occupy Museums, Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Meet "THEM," MENArt Group, 100 Days Action, Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA
A Window to Tehran, MFA Now 2017, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Again, Rigo 23 project, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2016
#simulacra, A window to Tehran, Embark Gallery, Juried by Julie Casemore and Allie Haeusslein
In-Transit, Hubble Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Our Gallery Is Your Living Room, Curated by Susanne Cockril, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA
Letters to Species, Social Practice CCA, Academy of Science, San Francisco, CA
Inhale, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Crossroads project, Make a Change exhibition, Curated by Sepa Sama, at Kulturcentrum Ronneby Konsthall, Ronneby, Sweden.
Critiquing United Nations, a sound installation of The Language Project atSFArtNight, Shirishti School in Bangalore, India
Practice Social, Art Center Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015
Can We Talk About Art?, facilitated by Amanda Eicher, SFMOMA On The Go, San Francisco, CA
Outside Ourselves, Ourselves Outside, Borderline Collective, San Francisco, CA
Inside Out Iran, Art Canteen, Rich Mix, London, UK
Parking Lot Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
Offline.1, SO Contemporary, London, UK
2014
Ma (We), With Taraneh Hemami, Fabrication Exhibition, Project of Survival, Southern Exposure (SoEx), San Francisco, CA
Culture Citizen: The Immigrant and the Stranger, Denver Seminary, The Bridge Gallery, Denver, Colorado
Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013
Speak Your Peace, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2012
Mirror, Golestan Palace, Curated by Drawing House, Tehran, Iran
2011
Balcony, Aaran Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Ajayebol Maxluqat, Momayyez Art Gallery, Drawing House, Tehran, Iran
Portrait, Seyhoun Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
In Appreciation of Shamsul ‘Emare, Golestan Palace, Tehran, Iran
2010
Water, mud, wind, fire, in appreciation of Pakistan’s flood, Solh Gallery, Red Crescent, Tehran, Iran
First Iranian Art Festival, Saba Museum of Art, Tehran, Iran
Spring, Magic of Persia (MOP) curated by Haleh Anvari, British Museum of London, UK
Coffee House, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran
2009
The Traveler, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran
2008
BIENAL INTERNACIONAL DEL CARTEL EN MÉXICO, 10BICM, México
Damunfar 2nd Visual Art Exhibition, Niavaran Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran
Drawing Parade, Curated by Drawing House, Laleh Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
The World, Curated by Akbar Nikanpour, Afrand Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
ARTIST TALKS/ PANELS/ WORKSHOPS
2023
Voice of the Iranian Diaspora, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2021
Artist Conversation, Alsharqreise, Berlin, Germany
Visualizing Social Justice, After Hope Symposium. Art and Activism, Asian Arts Museum, San Francisco, CA
After Hope Symposium, Zamin project, Asian Arts Museum, San Francisco, CA
Stories & Solidarity: International Women's Day Symposium, Guest Speaker, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia
2020
GitHub Universe, Guest Speaker, with Mobina Nouri, San Francisco, CA
The Archive to Come, Artist Talk, Telematic Arts and Media, San Francisco, CA
After Hope, Presentation, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Six Hats, Online Workshop in collaboration with Mobina Nouri, Codame, San Francisco, CA
Getting Paid For It, Panel Discussion, Hosted by Immersive Arts Alliance, CA
Collective Storytelling, online workshop, Codame, San Francisco, CA
2018
Embrace Your Freecom/ Know Your Rights, Guest Speaker, For Freedom, Project by Hank Willis Thomas, Guest Speaker, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Anastatica, Panel Discussion, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
2017
Eleven and a Half Hours, Panel Discussion, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
Living Room Light Exchange, Guest Speaker, Oakland, CA
Does Art Have Users? SFMOMA Symposium, Escuela de Arte Útil, Presentation, Yerba Buena Center for the Art, San Francisco, CA
2016
Language Project Talk and performance at Language Shaping Ideas, Claudia Bernardi, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Again, Home: Narrative of Place and Displacement Reading, Lit Crawl, Clarion Alley Mural Project, San Francisco, CA, OCT. 15, 2016
Unison Of Dream, With Samira Davarfara, Live video Chat workshop, Between Lajevardi Foundation, Tehran, Iran, and Drawing Center, CCA San Francisco, CA
Social Space and Public Discourse in Iran, Stanford University, Visiting Artist
Social Practice, Sussanne Cockrill, California College of the Arts, Visiting Artist
Narrative Strategies, questioning among the exile and migration, California College of the Art, Lynn Marie Kirby, Visiting Artist
2014
Urban Art and Iran, Stanford University, Visiting Artist
SOMARTS Culture Center, Guest Artist, Workshop
SOMARTS Culture Center, Workshop, Flag Stories
2013
Color censorship lecture, Struggles against Censorship in Iran, Siamak Pourzand Foundation, by National Endowment for Democracy, Visiting Lecturer.
Speak Your Peace, SOMARTS, Panel discussion
ONGOING SOCIAL PRACTICE PROJECTS
Zamin Project, A multi-faceted art project, aims to create a space for dialogue and connection between SWANA artists, curators, and educators in the Bay Area and beyond.
Klozar Weaving Project, Changing the power dynamic between the weaver and the market industry.
AWARDS/ FELLOWSHIPS/ RESIDENCIES
2023
The Honoree award, Culturally Diverse Women “Making a Difference,” in 2023 alongside Mayer Karen Bass, Cultural Inclusion Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
2022
La Pocha Nostra, Laboratorio de Arte Vivo / Live-Art Laboratory, OAXACA CITY, OAXACA, Mexico
2022 Grant, Zamin project, California Arts Council, Local Impact, Clarion Alley Mural Project, Central Stage, Artists Television Access, Oakland and San Francisco, CA
2021
Nominee of Gold Art Prize, 2021 Asian American and Pacific Islander Artists
2020
Grant, Zamin Project California Arts Council, Local Impact Grant, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
Finalist, Tosa Studio Award, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2019
Common Field, Philadelphia Scholarship
Bangkit Arise, An International Arts Exchange and residency, Between Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and San Francisco, USA, Clarion Alley Mural Project, Asian Art Museum
2018
Honorary AIR Award, Media Art Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2017
Creative Dissent Fellows at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts led by Tania Bruguera
(Finalist) Graduate Fellowship, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Aicad Residency, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Dennis Leon and Christin Nelson Scholarship
Juror’s Pick honor, California College of the Arts Commencement Exhibition
Methods of Acting(on): Alumnae Residency, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA
Fellowship at Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
California College of the Arts Travel Grant, Open Engagement Conference in Chicago, IL
2015-17
CCA MFA Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Diversity Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2011 In appreciation of the Shamsul ‘Emare Award, Golestan Palace, Iran
2010 First Iranian Emerging Art Festival, Award, Saba Museum of Tehran, Iran
2009 Photography First Prize, Award, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran
PUBLIC ART
2021 The Journey, Mural, Village Artist Corner, With Keyvan Shovir, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
2019 In Honor of, Mural in support of women prisoners in Iran, Clarion Alley Mural Project, San Francisco, CA
2015 In Memory of, Mural, With Keyvan Shovir, Clarion Alley Mural Project, San Francisco, CA
2014 Persian Dreams, Mural, With Keyvan Shovir, Clarion Alley Mural Project, San Francisco, CA
PUBLICATION
2022 Bangkit Arise, International Art Exchange, Asian Art Museum, and Clarion Alley Mural Project
2018 First 50 Book, Aggregate Space Gallery, December 2018
After the Internet, Living Room Light Exchange, October 2018
2017 Arte Útil Archive, Klozar Weaving, November 2017
2016 The West Coast Offset, a publication by Social Practice Workshop at California College of the Art, Open Engagement 2016, international social engaged conference, Oakland Museum of California
2012
Swimming in The Ice, book cover, Written by Amirhossein Daneshvar, Hoonar publication, Iran, ISN: 978600- 93052-0-9
The Weird Dream, Children's books illustration, Written by Mohammadreza Yousefi, Danesh Negar publication, Iran, ISN 978_600_308_003_4
2011 Mar Negro, a book written by Ana Arzoumanian, taken from Motivation Performance it announced the presentation of the book in Santiago de Chile, SBN: 978-956-9071-11-9