Yousha Bashir (b. 1989) is an Iranian post-digital artist currently active in his hometown of Tehran. He studied Visual Arts at Farhangian University (2011). Bashir works across media to create paintings, sculptures, and installation pieces.
Yousha Bashir is a dynamic artist whose work has undergone significant changes in style and output. His landscape series (Inner Landscapes, Outer Landscapes, Ultimate Landscapes, The Infinite Continuum) and his self-portraits are relational studies of form with the frame (the viewers’ perception) and the space surrounding the frame. He thus challenges the painting’s solid framework by exploring the relationship between the digital realm and the physicality of painting. His vibrant and luminous imagery question the definition of the creative space and the creative loci in the digital age and computer graphics. The self and how it is separated from the real world is one of the central explorations throughout his works. With the loss of image clarity in the process of a digital translation, he arrives at frames that open to a new two-dimensional world defined by restrictions and opportunities each possesses.
Bashir has held six solo exhibitions, including his latest, “The Infinite Continuum” (Parallel Circuit, October-November 2021), and participated in more than 30 exhibitions, including at the Frieze Los Angeles (2022) as well as Art Dubai (2020 and 2021) with Dastan’s Basement.
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Born in 1989
Lives and works in Tehran, Iran
EDUCATION
2011 B.A. in Visual Arts, Tarbiat Moallem University, Tehran, Iran
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 “The Infinite Continuum,” Parallel Circuit, Tehran, Iran
2018 “Outer/Inner Landscapes-Ephemeral Forms,” Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2015 “Beyond Me,” Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014 “Ego-Trap,” Hinterland, Vienna, Austria
2013 “No-Mind,” Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012 “Green-White-Red,” SAZMANAB, Tehran, Iran
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Prospect,” Parallel Circuit, Tehran, Iran
2023 “Art Dubai,” Dastan’s Basement Booth, Dubai, UAE
2022 “Art Dubai,” Dastan’s Basement Booth, Dubai, UAE
2022 “Art Dubai, Digital Section,” Dastan X NFTation, Dubai, UAE
2022 “Frieze Los Angeles,” Dastan’s Basement Booth, Los Angeles, USA
2021 “Art Dubai,” Dastan’s Basement Booth, Dubai, UAE
2021 “New Visions,” Vantage art projects, Online
2020 “Art Dubai,” Dastan’s Basement Booth, Dubai, UAE
2019 “Three Positions,” O Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2019 “Faces,” Homa art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018 “SAZMANAB at Taiwan Annual,” Taipei, Taiwan
2018 “A Selection of Etemad Collection,” Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2017 “Border Control,” CC Art Space, Isfahan, Iran
2017 “GlueHeads,” Pejman Foundation: Kandovan, Tehran, Iran
2017 “Shattered Frames: Recent video work from Iran,” Pejman Foundation: Kandovan, Tehran, Iran
2016 “The Possibility of Events,” A Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2016 “Summer Group Exhibition,” Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2016 “Shattered Frames: Recent video work from Iran,” Carnegie Museum of Art, US
2015 “Characteristic,” Vista Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2015 “Bits And Pieces,” Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2015 “Fluorescent,” Artlounge, Tehran, Iran
2015 “Centrefold Project: Spring of recession,” SAZMANAB, Tehran, Iran
2015 “Mapping Within: An Alternative Guide to Tehran and Beyond,” The Mine, Dubai, UAE
2015 “Years In Review: Dastan and Sam Art,” Dastan Outside The Basement Project, Tehran, Iran
2015 “In respect of a new spring,” Basmeh Niavaran, Tehran, Iran
2015 “Culture of Peace,” Lajevardi Collection, Tehran, Iran
2014 “Limited Access Festival 5”, Aaran Gallery, Vista Gallery, No.6 Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014 “Refest”, Culturehub, NYC, US
2014 “Inwards/out,” Dastan’s Basement, Tehran, Iran
2014 “Art For Peace,” Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013 “The Review of A Decade of Video Art in Tehran,” Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, Iran
2013 “Open Source,” Shirin Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013 “Anti Hero,” Dastan’s Basement, Tehran, Iran
2013 “Lost and Found in Tehran: Contemporary Iranian Video,” Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, US
2013 “SubTehran: Subjective Truth from Tehran,” CCA-T Center of Contemporary Art Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia
2012 “Action-Expression-Creativity,” Mah-e Mehr Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012 “OCCUPY ME! Dedicated to Radiohead,” Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2011 “A selection of Iranian contemporary sculpting procedure,” Farvahar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2011 “Pool,” Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
