Ahmad Tabrizi
Individual
Roles
Artist, DesignerBiography
Ahmad Tabrizi is an Iranian Vancouver-based artist who studied Persian literature in the University of Tehran in early 1980s. After arrival in Canada in 1987 as a political refugee, he studied at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, dropping out in the second year. Ahmad has exhibited in various venues throughout the 1990s including Helen Pitt Gallery, Surrey Art Gallery, Photo Based Gallery, “A Walk is” Gallery, Canadian Craft Museum, and Community Art Council, just to name a few. He has been doing performance art at various venues including Western Front and the Abbey Studio. Tabrizi has also co-written a catalogue essay for Shirin Neshat’s exhibit at Artspeak Gallery in 1997 and contributed an essay for Ali Ahadi’s exhibition at grunt gallery in 2012. Also, he wrote a short story for Ann Murray Fleming’s short film Pleasure Film/ Ahmad’s Story. He received the Exploration grant from Canada Council for the Arts in 1996 as well as the Emerging Artist grant in 1998. Tabrizi has been working in the film industry as a costume designer since 1998.grunt gallery, 2015
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grunt gallery Programming Archive (Artist)Related program
Crossed (Artist)Related Archive, Library & Publication Objects
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