GELARE KHOSHGOZARAN
DMA 2018-19 ART COUNCIL LECTURER
April 9, 2019, 6:00 pm

Gelare Khoshgozaran, lives and works in Los Angeles. Khoshgozaran received her BA in photography from University of Arts in Tehran, in 2009, and MFA from University of Southern California in 2011. Recent solo exhibitions and performances include Articule, Montreal, QC (2018), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (2017); Human Resources, Los Angeles (2016); Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (2016); and the Queens Museum, Flushing, New York (2016). Her work has been part of group exhibitions including the 2018 Hammer Museum Made in LA Biennial, LAXART, Los Angeles (2017); Pori Art Museum, Finland (2015); and Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta (2013). She has had residencies at Capp Street Project (2018), The Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson (2017), The Echo Park Film Center (2017); Krannert Art Museum (2016); and Santa Fe Art Institute (2016). Khoshgozaran is the recipient of an Art Matters Award (2017), a Rema Hort Mann Foundation grant (2016), The Andy Warhol Foundation Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant (2015), and California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts, Emerging Artist Fellowship (2015). She is a co-founding editor of contemptorary.org.