Yousha Bashir was born in 1989 and is a Tehran-based multi-disciplinary artist who holds a degree after diploma in graphic design and a BFA of visual arts from Farhangian University of Tehran.
His practice ranges from painting to sculpture to installations. Concepts such as construction/deconstruction, duality, and suspension are the key elements that tie most of his works together. The ideas behind his works are mostly being recycled from his own previous works and his works mostly oscillate between abstraction and figuration.
The self and how it is separated from the real world is one of the main explorations throughout his works thus often his works are figures usually as self-portraits or utopian/dystopian abstract landscapes.
Yousha Bashir’s most recent series of works are a continuation of his abstract landscapes practice. Most of his new paintings seem to be framed within another more extensive landscape. As so, they try to create a new perspective while challenging the idea of the painting’s solid framework. He explores the relationship between the digital realm and the physicality of painting. These paintings play on the idea of translation/mistranslation from the digital image to physical painting and the restrictions and opportunities each individual platform creates.
CV
Born in 1989
Lives and works in Tehran, Iran
EDUCATION
2011 B.A. in Visual Arts, Tarbiat Moallem University, Tehran, Iran
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
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
