Tala Madani
Born in 1981 in Tehran, Iran
Lives and works in Los Angeles
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, US (forthcoming)
EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art Αthens, Athens, Greece (forthcoming)
2023
Dirty Windows, 303 Gallery, New York, US
2022
Biscuits, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
Death Fan, Kunstmuseum Den Haag (KM21), The Hague, Netherlands
2021
It was as if the Shadows Were Lit Up, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
Skid Mark, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
Chalk Mark, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2020
Start Museum, Shanghai, China
2019
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Vienna Secessions, Vienna, Austria
Oven Light, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
2018
Corner Projections, 303 Gallery, New York, US
2017
Tala Madani, La Panacée, Montpellier, France
2016
Shitty Disco, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
First Light, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, St Louis, US ; MIT Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, US
2015
Smiley has no nose, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2014
Tala Madani, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
Tala Madani: Abstract Pussy, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
Tala Madani, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
2013
Tala Madani: Rip Image, Moderna Museet, Malmö; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Tala Madani: Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, US
2011
Tala Madani: The Jinn, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Manual Man, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2010
Pictograms, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, US
2009
Dazzle Men, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2008
ASS•AS•SIN: hashish anyone?, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, US
2007
Smoke and Mirrors, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, US
2006
Cake Men, Oregon State University, Corvallis, US
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
2024
Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family, Kunstmuseum, St Gallen, Switzerland
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, Arnolfini, Bristol, England; Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, England; Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, England
The Reflection of Human Condition in Portraiture, Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, Santa Monica, US
2023
La Morsure des Termites (The Termites’ Bites), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Keep Calm and Give a Shit, Buk-SeMA (Seoul Museum of Art), Seoul, Korea
In First Person Plural, MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy
Picasso: Untitled, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
No Jokes Allowed, Hessel Museum of Art, New York, US
Demonstration: The Art of Decision-Making Techniques, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China
Let The Sunshine In, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
I won't be an egg which you would crack in a hurry for the world, Dat Bolwerck, Zutphen, Netherlands
2022
Trouble wandering (to eternity), Kasteel Wijlre Museum, Wijlre, The Netherlands
In the Heart of Another Country: The Diasporic Imagination in the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and you Were Full of Joy, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, US
Afterimage, MAXXI L’Aquila, Aquila, Italy
Cloud Point, Paradise Row, London, UK
Luncheon on the Grass, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, US
2021
A Higher Calling, White Space, Beijing, China
Above Us Only Sky!, Nitja Senter for Samtidskunst, Lillestrøm, Norway
Portals, NEON, Athens, Greece
MOTHER!, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebæk, Denmark
2020
Anticorps, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Radical Figures: paintings in the new millennium, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Some mysterious process, 50 years of collecting international art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
OKETA COLLECTION: A NEW DECADE, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan
Dallas Biennial 2020, PRP Gallery, Dallas, US
Feminism Against Family, Vienna, Austria
The World: From THE OKETA COLLECTION, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanzawa, Japan
2019
16th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
On Vulnerability and Doubt, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
2018
Lewben Art Foundation Playlist for Mo Museum "Lewben Playlist for Mo", MO Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
Mademoiselle, Centre Regional d' Art Contemporaine Occitaine, Sète, France
First Person Plural: Empathy, Intimacy, Irony and Anger, BAK, Utrecht, Netherlands
2017
Desire: A Show about sex, love and lust, Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin, Colombia
Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection (organised by Connie Butler and Emily Gonzalez-Jarrett), The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
(X) A Fantasy, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
Prospect 2017, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California, US
Black & Brown People | White Problems, Samsøñ, Boston, Massachusetts, US
Adult Swim, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
I Plan to Stay a Believer, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, US
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros, Hall Art Foundation, New York, US
Made Masculine, Museum of Art at the University of New Hampshire, New Hampshire – US
First Person Plural, Utretch, Netherlands
National Gallery of Victoria Triennial, Melbourne, Australia
Please Fasten Your Seatbelt as We Are Experincing Some Turbulence, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
Los Angeles – A Fiction, Musée d’art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
In Between: Contemporary Iranian Art (Part 1), Mana Contemporary, New Jersey, US
Zeitgeist, Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva, China
2016
Omul Negru, Nicodim Gallery at Cantacuzino Palace, Bucharest, Roumania
Malerei als Film, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany
Colliding Alien Cargo, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, US
Invisible Adversaries, The Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
Human Condition, Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, Los Angeles, US
We Dance, We Smoke, We Kiss, Fahrenheit, Los Angeles, US
On Space and Place: Contemporary Art from Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Vancouver, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, US
The Distance of a Day, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
A Modest Proposal, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Inside Out, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Mixtape 2016, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2015
Alfred Jarry Archipelago: La Valse des Pantins – Acte II, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France
Black & White Mike, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Eagle Rock, US
Get Rid of Yourself: America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
2014
The Great Acceleration: Art in the Anthropocene, Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan
Made in L.A. 2014, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
Tala Madani & Nathaniel Mellors, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Everything falls faster than an anvil, Pace, London, UK
Dramedy, Forth Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, US
Where are we Now?, 5th Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech, Morroco
In the Near Future, The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
2013
Made in Space, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, US
PLAY! Recapturing the Radical Imaginiation, Göteborg Biennial, Göteborg, Sweden
Future Generation Prize, Pinchuck Art Prize, Venice, Italy
New works 13.1: Tala Madani, Adam Putnam, and J. Parker Valentine, Artpace, San Antonio, US
NO BORDERS: Contemporary art in a globalised world, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
2012
21 Artists Shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize 2012, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
UNREST: Revolt against Reason, apexart, New York, US
De Volkskrant Prijs (De Volkskrant Art Award), Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2011
He disappeared into complete silence, Museum De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands
Speech Matters, Danish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Open House, Singapore Biennale, Singapore
Between my Head and my Hand, There is Always the Face of Death, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, US
2010
Framed, Drawings in Motion, The Drawing Center, Smartspaces, New York, US
Greater New York, Neville Wakefield, and Connie Butler, MoMA P.S. 1, New York, US
The Future of Tradition, The Tradition of Future, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Touched, The 6th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
2009
The Girl Effect, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, US
The Symbolic Efficiency of the Frame, 4th Tirana International Contemporary Art Biennial, Tirana, Albania
The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, The New Museum, New York, US
Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Out-of-Line, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, US
2008
Works on Paper, La Maison Jaune, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
Size Matters: XXL-Recent Large-Scale Paintings, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, US
2007
Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Size Matters: XS-Recent Small Scale Paintings, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, US
EDUCATION
2004-06
MFA Painting, Yale University, New Haven
1999-04
BFA Visual Arts, Oregon State University, Corvallis
BFA Political Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND RESIDENCIES
2014
Tiffany Foundation 2013 Biennial Grant
2013
Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting Artpace San Antonio, Spring Artist-in-Residence
2012
Shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev
De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs (De Volkskrant Art Award)
2010
British School of Rome, Abbey Painting Fellowship, Rome, Italy
2008
Van den Berch van Heemstede Stichting Fellowship, The Netherlands
2007
Stichting Kees Verwey Fellowship, The Netherlands
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Education Residency, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006
Fine Arts Work Center Residency, Provincetown, US
Barry Schactman prize for excellence in painting, drawing and printmaking, Yale University, New Haven, US
2005
Schickle-Collingwood Prize, Yale University, New Haven, US
2003
Oregon State University President's Award for Excellence in Art
Oregon State University 'Plinkiewisch Scholarship', full tuition, 1999-2003, Corvallis, US
Oregon State University 'Undergraduate Research, Innovation, Scholarship, Creativity (URISC)', grant for painting residency in Berlin, Corvallis, US