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Mehrdad Afsari
Mehrdad Afsari (Persian: مهرداد افسری; born 1977) is an Iranian photographer, film director, video artist, educator, curator, and visual artist.[1][2][3] He is best known for his artistic and unusual landscapes with a conceptual and philosophical approach.[4] Life and workMehrdad Afsari was born in 1977 in Khoy, Pahlavi Iran (now Iran).[citation needed] He received a B.A. degree in 2000 in photography from University of Tehran, and M.F.A in photography in 2006 from Tehran University of Art (now University of Art).[citation needed] He has been professor at Tehran University of Art for 14 years. He is an honorary member of Iranian Visual Artists Society.[5] Since 2001, he has had 16 solo exhibitions[6] in different galleries in Iran and his works have been shown in more than 80 exhibitions around the world such as Iran, China,[7] Germany, US,[8] UAE,[9] Lithuania, Spain, Italy, Slovenia,[10] Turkey,[11] Georgia,[12] France, Canada,[13] Norway, UK such as Photo London[14][15] 2018, Venice Biennial in Italy, Paris Photo in France, Contemporary Art Istanbul[16] in Turkey, Queens Museum of Art (QMA) in USA, MAO Museum of Architecture and Design in Slovenia, The Reina Sofia Museum in Spain, Georgia Museum of Art, "University of Westminster in London and Tehran museum of contemporary art (TMOCA).[17] He has also been the Jury member,[18][19] lecturer[20][21] and curator of many national and international festivals and exhibitions such as 11th Fajr visual arts Festival at Iranian Academy of the Arts.[22][23] Afsari curated the group exhibition Confined Landscape at Mohsen Gallery in Tehran in 2012[24] and the group exhibition Winter there in 2015.[25] He also curated The Land of Bewilderment memoir exhibition of Mohammad Sayyad's photographs of Iraqi Kurd refugees, exhibited after some thirty years, which are replete with sorrow and bewilderment held in Nabshi Center.[26][27] Awards and fellowships
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