Omid Shalmani
'My passion and concern are Love and Destruction and I imagine that all my artworks are about to express the emotional aspects of these issues with the quality that I have lived in.'
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
My name is Omid Shalmani. I was born on 14th February 1981 and I'm a visual artist and a photographer, based in Tehran, Iran. I studied photography and Graphic design at University. I started my career in Art photography in 2012. My works have been exhibited in more than 20 Art exhibitions in Tehran such as Press Book, Fajr Art Festival, and Tehran's Expo. In addition, one of my works has been selected and shown in a photography exhibition curated by SeeMe in New York City.I used the photomontage technique in my works until 2016 and after that, I got interested in stage photography.
Exhibitions:
- 2016 – Curry Project Audio Event (Condition of War), Afrand Gallery
Solo Exhibitions:
- 2012 - Solo Exhibition, Afrand Gallery
- 2015 - Solo Exhibition, Afrand Gallery
- 2016 - Solo Exhibition, Anahita (not) Gallery
- 2022 - Solo Exhibition, Afrand Gallery
Group Exhibitions:
- 2001 - Group exhibition. Tabriz
- 2012 - Group Photo Exhibition, 10 days with Iranian photographers, Iran Artists House
- 2013 - Second Festival of Portraiture
- 2013 - Creatives Rising event, Long Island New York City, SeeMe
- 2013 - Group exhibition, 4th Persbook, Iran Artists House
- 2014 - Group Exhibition, Panjerh Gallery
- 2014 - Group exhibition, Rouge Gallery
- 2015 - Group Exhibition, Afrand Gallery
- 2016 - A Glance at the Iranian contemporary Photography, Mellat Cinema Complex Gallery
- 2016 - Group Exhibition, Afrand Gallery
- 2016 - Group Exhibition, Afrand Gallery
- 2017 - Group Exhibition, Fereshteh Art Gallery
- 2017 - Group Exhibition, Abad Art Gallery
- 2017 - Group Exhibition, Afrand Gallery
- 2018 - The Fadjr International Festival of Visual Arts
- 2018 - Group Exhibition, Afrand Gallery
- 2018 - Group Exhibition, Azad Art Gallery
- 2018 - Group Exhibition, Afrand Gallery
- 2018 - Group Exhibition, Afrand Gallery
- 2018 - Group Exhibition, Mojdeh Art Gallery
- 2019 - Teer Art week, Afrand Gallery
- 2019 - Group Exhibition, Negah Gallery
- 2019 - Group Exhibition, Etemad Gallery
- 2019 - Group Exhibition, Mojdeh Art Gallery
- 2019 - Group Exhibition, Afrand Gallery
- 2019 - Group Exhibition, Farmanfarma Gallery
- 2019 - Group Exhibition, Lahijan
- 2019 - Group Exhibition, Atbin Gallery
- 2019 - 7th International Shahr Film Festival
- 2019 - Group Exhibition, Afrand Gallery 2019-Annual photo exhibition, Mojdeh Art Gallery
- 2019 - 7th International Art for peace festival, Baroque Art Museum
- 2019 - The 5th National Technology and Industrial, Film and Photography Farda Festival, Iran Artists Hours
- 2019 - What If Not Exotic? Critical Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art, Building bridges art exchange
- 2020 - Group Exhibition, Shirin Art Gallery
- 2020 - Group Exhibition, Afrand Gallery
- 2020 - Group Exhibition, Negar art gallery
- 2020 - 10th annual event of contemporary art pers-books: work-hand - Kashan, Iran
- 2021 - Group Exhibition, Small-sized artworks, Aria Gallery
- 2021 - Group Exhibition, Afrand Gallery
- 2022 - Group Exhibition, Afrand Gallery
- 2022 - Group Exhibition, azadart.gallery
Performances:
- 2012 - A Performance (Photocracy) at the First Work in Progress Art Festival, Shirin Art Gallery
- 2013 - A Performance, `` QUERY FOR MEANING ON ASHES``, Ghasr Museum Art Expo & Auction
- 2012 - Tehran Expo-Vahdat Hall
- 2012 - Art Expo 2012 - Photo Tehran Expo, Iran Artists House
- 2014 - Photo Tehran Expo, Iran Artists House
- 2016 - Hope Auction, Homa Hotel
Land Art:
- 2013 - Shadow collection. Land Art, Chouka Town
- 2013 - Shadow collection. Land Art, Ghasr Museum
Umpire:
- 2017 - Umpire: the International Exhibition (self-sacrifice), Idea Gallery
- 2018 - Umpire: the International Exhibition (Kermanshah earthquake), Idea Gallery
Other:
- 2014 - Tehran Radical 2, Milad Tower, Compose and Performance an Audio Piece (Vakhan) - This romantic collection named SHIRIN, based on KHOSROW and SHIRIN poem by Nizami Ganjavi Iranian poet (1141-1209), but in the contemporary way of narration This collection has been photographed completely on stage and I tried to get close to the concept of love not in the global meaning but in the concept of culture, geography, and the time that I am living in. In this photo, the lines are created by threads attached to the ceiling and floor on the stage and on the faces of the models, I put a Plexiglas mask on which I painted but in the concept of culture, geography, and the time that I am living in.
Artworks
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Shirin 1 – Staged Photography
€2,350.00 incl. taxes -
Shirin 12 – Staged Photography
€1,850.00 incl. taxes -
Shirin 16 – Staged Photography
€1,850.00 incl. taxes