Bio 

Born

1942Kermanshah, Iran. Lives and works in Brooklyn.

Education

1974City College of New York, MFA

1967Tehran University of Fine Arts, BFA

Solo Exhibitions

20221981, Helena Anrather, New York

2022Tails of the Lost Dreams, Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK

2021We the Witnesses, Helena Anrather, New York

2020Singing a New Song, Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK

2020The New York Times Drawings (1996 - 1998), Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK

2019Nicky Nodjoumi: New York Times Sketchbooks (1996-1999), Helena Anrather, New York

2018Please Sit Down, Barak Contemporary, Seoul, South Korea

2018Fractures, Third Line Gallery, Dubai, UAE

2016You and Me, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York

2014The Accident, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

2013Chasing the Butterfly and Other Recent Paintings, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York

2010Educating the Horse, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai, UAE

2009Invitation to Change Your Metaphor, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York

2009The Formulaic Nature of Appearances, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York

2006Triumph of Tradition, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York

2005Interactive Game, Thom Andriola/New Gallery, Houston, TX

2005Homa Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2004Private Agenda, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York

2004Aria Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2003Paintings, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

2001Paintings, Stefan Stux Gallery, Project Room, New York

1999Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY

1997Studio 24, New York

1993Artists Space, New York

1985Pictogram Gallery, New York

1984Leila Taghinia Milani Gallery, New York

1983The Alternative Museum, New York

1980Retrospective, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran

1978Shahr Gallery, New York

1976Roko Gallery, New York

1976Seyhon Gallery, Tehran, Iran

19681968 Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

Group Exhibitions

2022Is it morning for you yet? 58th Carnegie International curated by Sohrab Mohebbi, Pittsburgh, PA

2019Landfall Press : Five Decades of Printmaking, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

2018In the Field Of Empty Days, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2018You Tell Me, Foley Gallery, New York

2017Beyond the Ban, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York

2016A Verdant Summer, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York

2016Dallas Art Fair, Taymour Grahne Gallery, Dallas, TX

2015EXPO Chicago, Taymour Grahne Gallery, Chicago, IL

2015Bazm and Razm: Feast and Fight in Persian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

2015Untitled Miami, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York

2014Abu Dhabi Art, Taymour Grahne Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2014Pierogi XX : Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2013Iran Modern, Asia Society, New York

2013Nowrouz 1392, Artspace, London, UK

2012IMAGE/CLOT, Curated by Dan Mills, Zolla/Liberman Gallery, Inc., Chicago, IL

2013The Young Collectors Exhibition, Leila Heller Gallery, New York

2011The Mask and the Mirror, Curated by Shirin Neshat, Leila Heller Gallery, New York

2011Tale Spinning, Curated by Dan Mills, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME

2010One Thousand and One Nights: The Narrative Tradition in Contemporary Middle Eastern Art, Curated by Nancy Einreinhofer, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ

2009Iran Inside Out, Curated by Sam Bardouil and Till Fellrath, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY; DePaul University Museum, Chicago, IL

2009Epic Painting, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

2009Chelsea Visits Havana, 10th Havana Biennial, Museo del Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

2008Conference of the Birds, organized by Berardi & Sagharchi Projects Ltd. and Leila Heller Gallery, Flawless, London, UK

2004Tango, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York

2003Momus Gallery, New York

2003637 Running Feet: Black on White Drawings by 14 Artists, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY

2002Dubrow International, Curated by Norman Dubrow, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York

2002East Village Now & Then: 20 Year Anniversary, Studio 18 Gallery, New York

2002New York in Texas, New Gallery, Houston, TX

200220th Anniversary Celebration: Stefan Stux Gallery, New Gallery, Houston, TX

2002Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001Tribeca Open Artists Studio Tour, New York

2000Maison Française, Columbia University, New York

2000Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY

1999Center for Iranian Modern Arts, New York

1999Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1998The Lobby Gallery at Deutsche Bank, New York

1998Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

1998Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

1998Bard College, Red Hook, NY

1998Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

1993Burns Fine Art Ltd., New York

1990Metropolitan Design Center, New York

1988Mussavi Gallery, New York

1987Annual Juried Exhibition, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY

1985Pictogram Gallery, New York

1984Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA

1982Annual Juried Exhibition, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY

1979Revolutionary Poster & Cartoons Exhibition, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

2977Kerman Museum, Kerman Basel, Switzerland

1976Forum Gallery, New York

1975Parson-Truman Gallery, New York

1974City College Gallery, City College, New York

1967Gandriz Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Public Collections

 British Museum, London, UK

 DePaul Art Museum, DePaul University, Chicago, IL

 Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

 National Museum of Cuba, Havana, Cuba

 Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS

 Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran

 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

 The Smithsonian, New York

Selected Bibliography

2021Woolbright, Andrew Paul. "Nicky Nodjoumi: We the Witnesses," The Brooklyn Rail, Oct 1

2020Penny, Daniel. "Painting the New York Times," Boston Review, February 14

2020"Nicky Nodjoumi at Helena Anrather Gallery," Contemporary Art Daily, Jan 15

2020"Nicky Nodjoumi," The New Yorker, Jan 15

2016Bui, Phong. “Dear Friends and Readers,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 4

2015“What Art Can Teach Us about This Year’s Biggest News Stories That a Newspaper Can’t,” Artsy, December 22

2015Laster, Paul. “Asian Art at EXPO Chicago 2015,” Artasiapacific, September 30

2015Kamali Dehghan, Saeed. “Tehran Auction Shifts Millions of Points Worth of Art in Spite of Sanctions,” The Guardian, June 1

2015“2014 Museum Acquisitions,” Canvas Magazine, January – February

2014Grigor, Talinn. Contemporary Iranian Art: From the Street to the Sudio, Raktion Books,

20142014. Print. “New York-Based Taymour Grahne Gallery is Selected Art Gallery for This Year’s Bidaya,” Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia, November –December

2014Masters, HG. “Galleries: Top 10 Exhibitions of 2013,” ArtAsiaPacific Almanac 2014, January – February

2013Cotter, Holland. “Review: Nicky Nodjoumi,” The New York Times, October 18

2011Asia Society. Iran Modern, New York : The Asia Society Museum, 2013. Print “Art in Exile: From Tehran to Brooklyn,” www.pbs.org, Web, October 12

2013Pearlman, Ellen. “Nicky Nodjoumi: Ghosts from Iran’s Past,” Hyperallergic.com, Web, September 30

2013“News Brief: The Personal and The Historical,” AsianArtNews, Vol. 23, No. 5, October

2013Scott, Andrea K. “Review: Asia Society,” The New Yorker, September 23

2013Kaylan, Melik. “A Dawn Interrupted,” The Wall Street Journal, September 17

2013“Highlights from Canvas Guide: New York,” Canvas, Vol. 9, Issue 5, September – October

2013Adam, Georgina. “The Art Market: All eyes on the Andy index,” The Financial Times, September 14

2013Cotter, Holland. “Modernism Blooming in Iran,” The New York Times, September 6

2013Begalri, Nazzy. “Nicky Nodjoumi: A Life in Three Dimensions,” Harper’s Bazaar Art, Issue 9, September- October

2013Brooks, Katherine. “Iranian Artist Nicky Nodjoumi Talks Revolutions, Secret Police and the Vietnam War,” Huffington Post, September 4

2013Cooper, Ashton. “26 Questions for Anti-Patriarchal Painter Nicky Nodjoumi,” Artinfo, September 3

2013“Art Scene : New Kids in Town,” Where New York Magazine, September

2013Kendzulak, Susan. “What art can do for the Arab world, according to Taymour Grahne,” Art Radar Asia, August 31

2011Vali, Murtaza. “Nicky Nodjoumi: Exhibition Review,” Bidoun, No. 24, Spring

2010Bui, Phong. “In Conversation: Nicky Nodjoumi with Phong Bui,” The Brooklyn Rail, November

2010Nodjoumi, Nicky. “The Tale of Two Cities,” Canvas Magazine, November – December

2010Comi, Emanuele. “Dubai Gets in Touch with its Arty Side,” CNN, Web, March 22

2010Ayad, Myrna. “Political Art on Show,” Canvas Daily, Art Dubai Edition, Issue 4, March 19

2009Bardaouil, Sam, Till Fellrath. Iran Inside Out – Influences of Homeland and Diaspora on the Artistic Language of Contemporary Iranian Artists, Chelsea Art Museum

2009Broffman, Marissa. “Iran Inside Out Shocks and Provokes at the Chelsea Art Museum,” Huffington Post, Web, August 13

2009Kino, Carol. “Iranians Shine, Assisted by Expatriate,” The New York Times, August 15

2009Cotter, Holland. “Iran Inside Out,” The New York Times, Art in Review, sec.: C25, July 23

2009Crow, Kelly. “Iran: A Defiant Self Portrait,” The Wall Street Journal, June 19

2009Iran Inside Out: Influences of Homeland and Diaspora on the Artistic Language of Contemporary Iranian Artists, Exhibition Catalog, published in conjunction with Iran Inside Out, Chelsea Art Museum, June

2009Horne, Sarah. “Politically Charged,” Canvas Magazine, Vol. 5 Issue 3, May – June

2009Robinson, W. “Chelsea Galleries to Havana, Cuba,” The Havana Times, March 24

2009“Nodjoumi on Display in New York,” Iran Times, March 13

2009“New York trifft Havana: Galerienbesuch auf Kuba,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Seitung, March 7

2009Hrbacek, Mary. “Nicky Nodjoumi: Priska C. Juschka Fine Art,” M Magazine, March

2009Kepler, Leo. “’Nicky Nodjoumi: The Formulaic Nature of Ap pearances’ at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art,” Gallery Crawl, We blog. March 8,

2009Chelsea Visits Havana, Exhibition Catalog, Fundacion Amistad, 2009

2009Ben-Haim, Tsipi. “Nicky Nodjoumi,” Yedioth Ahronoth, 2009

2008Halasa, Malu, Maziar Bahari. Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations, Garnet Publishing

2008Pollock, Barbara. “Art Review: Ardeshir Mohassess: Art and Sa tire in Iran,” Time Out New York, Issue 668, July 17-23

2008Rosenberg, Karen. “Art Review: Life in Iran, Etched with Suspi cion and Humor,” The New York Times, May 30

2008Berardi, Carlo, and Nima Sagharchi, eds. Conference of the Birds, Exhibition Catalog. London: Berardi & Sagharchi Projects, LTD

2006Kunz, Nicole. “Allegories Modernes et Peinture RItuelle,” Tri bune De Geneve, April, 19

2006Baker, R.C. “Nicky Nodjoumi,” Village Voice, February 1-7

2005Sidley, Kelly. “Nicky Nodjoumi,” Art in America, May

2005Berwick, Carly. “Reviews: New York, Nicky Nodjoumi,” Artnews, January

2004Reed, John. “Returning Cap’n Crunch to Politics,” Gay City News, November 18

2004Johnson, Ken. “Nicky Nodjoumi, Private Agenda,” The New York Times, November 12

2003Neshat, Shirin. “Nicky Nodjoumi,” Atlantica Revista de Arte Y Pensamiento, No. 35, Summer

2003Naves, Mario. “The Rich Rewards of Engagement with Dense, Demanding Work,” The New York Observer, February 2

2003Cotter, Holland. “Weekend Art Guide: Nicky Nodjoumi,” The New York Times, February 7

2003Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: Nicky Nodjoumi,” The New York Times, January 31

2002Gilmore, Johnathan. “Nicky Nodjoumi at Stefan Stux,” Art in America, April

2002Portfolio, Nicky Nodjoumi: An Illustrator with a Burning Passion of Tough Brush Touches and Intuition,” Design Journal

2001“Art in Review: Nikzad Nodjoumi’s Paintings,” Persian Heritage, Vol. 6, No. 24, Winter

1984Klein Lee, Ellen. “Nicky Nodjoumi,” Arts Magazine, Apri

1983Rodriguez, Gino. “Nicky Nodjoumi in the Midst of Revolution,” Alternative Museum Calendar

1983Sadegh, Mina. “Contemporary Persian Painting, Contemporary Persian Art,” Pacific Asia Museum Calendar

1981McFadden, Sara. “The Museum and the Revolution,” Art in America, October