Recent Exhibitions

2024.

"Wonders of Creation”, San Diego Museum of Art, CA
"Light: Visionary Perspectives", Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
"The Sky of the Seven Valleys", The Third Line, Dubai, UAE

2023.

"Artists Making Books: Poetry to Politics", British Museum, London, UK
"A Point Stretched: Views on Time", San Jose Museum of Art, CA
"More Than What My Hands Can Hold", Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
"Perpetual Inventory, Volume 1: An Exercise in Looking", The Third Line, Dubai, UAE

2022.

"FUTURE SHOCK: (Re)Visions of Tomorrow", Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM
"The Light Fantastic", Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
"Wear Your Love Like Heaven", Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
"Blaze Across the Firmament", Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2021.

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
"A Boundless Drop to a Boundless Ocean", Orlando Museum of Art, Florida and the American University in Cairo, Egypt
"NEGUS", The Third Line, Dubai, UAE

2020.

"An Infinite and Omnivorous Sky", University Galleries at Illinois State University, IL
"The Violets in the Mountain Have Broken the Rocks", Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
"There is Fiction in the Space Between", The Third Line, Dubai, UAE

2019.

"NEGUS", Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
"What is an edition, anyway?", McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
"The Moon: A Voyage Through Time", Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
"safina / سفینه", The Third Line, Dubai, UAE

2018.

"Long, Winding Journeys: Contemporary Art and the Islamic Tradition", Katonah Museum of Art, NY
"Thekla", Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
"Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times", di Rosa, Napa, CA

2017.

"L’horreur du Vide", Selma Feriani Gallery, Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
"Sanctuary", FOR-SITE, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
"Book 96: Annual Artists’ Book Exhibition", Aaran Projects, Tehran, Iran
"au(ro)ra", Anglim Gilbert Gallery at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
"Equation of Time", Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
"Detritus", San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), San Jose, CA
"Mashrabiya: The Art of Looking Back", Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, CA

2016.

"RTL:LTR/LTR:RTL", Lajevardi Foundation, Tehran, Iran / Galerie Forum, Wels, Austria
"Shahnameh: The Perpetual Narrative", Aaran Projects, Tehran, Iran
Welcome to the Left Coast”, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
"State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now", Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

2015.

"Nowheresville /‘nä-kōja,-abäd", The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
"Angels, Saints, and Co.", Aaran Projects, Tehran, Iran
"Parallax", Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
"Space Between Our Fingers", organized by apexart at Ashkal Alwan, the Arab Image Foundation, Mansion, The Hangar and Dawawine, Beirut, Lebanon
"Formal Relations", Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY
"Misappropriations", Orange County Museum of Art, CA
"State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now", Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR

“2014 Xinjiang Biennale: Encountering Art on the Silk Road,” (curated by Peng Feng), Xinjiang Uyghur, China
“Now Read This”, Boise State University Arts Gallery, Boise, ID
“Equations of Sight-Similarity”, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY
“The Vastness is Bearable”, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
“cylindr.us,” Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA 2013