Raha Raissnia

Raha Raissnia (b. 1968, Tehran, Iran) received her BFA from the School of the Art institute of Chicago in 1992 and her MFA from Pratt Institute in 2002.  In the interim, her interest in avant-garde filmmaking led her to work at Anthology Film Archives (1995–1999), where she has also exhibited. Raissnia presented a solo exhibition of new work in 2017-18 at the Drawing Center (New York).  In 2016, her work was the subject of a solo presentation at the Museum of Modern Art (New York) as well as included in the 13th Bienal de Cuenca, and in 2015 her work was included in All the World’s Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor, for the 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale. Previously, her work has been featured in exhibitions at The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), White Columns (New York), Access Gallery (Vancouver), the Museum of Contemporary Art St. Louis, Khastoo Gallery (Los Angeles), Thomas Dane Gallery (London), and The Kitchen (New York), among others. Recent solo shows were held at Ab/Anbar Gallery (Tehran), Galeria Marta Cervera (Madrid), Galerie Xippas (Paris), and the Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Art (Isfahan, Iran).

Raissnia has collaborated with musicians such as Briggan Krauss, Charles Curtis, Aki Onda and Panagiotis Mavridis. Raissnia’s sixth one-person exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery was on display in the winter of 2019. Her work is held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the Pejman Foundation (Tehran), Colección INELCOM (Madrid), the Pinault Collection, and The Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania). Selected Works: Raha Raissnia, a monograph dedicated to her work, was published by Ab-Anbar Gallery in 2015.

Raissnia’s work was included in Greater New York at MoMA PS1, New York, in 2021-2022, and is currently on view in Singing in Unision: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destory, curated by Phong H. Bui and Cal McKeever of the Brooklyn Rail, at Ricco/Maresca, New York. Her solo exhibition Nour was held at Empty Gallery in Winter 2022. She is currently the recipient of a Visiting Faculty Fellowship at National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan, through Summer 2024.

Biography courtesy of Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York

CURRENT:
I Am Standing in the Middle of the Information Highway and Laughing
Argo Factory, Tehran
August 16 ⁠– October 18, 2024
Curated by Raha Raissnia with Martin Germann

PRESS:
Diana d’Arenberg, ‘In Praise of Shadows: Raha Raissnia at Empty Gallery’, Texte Zur Kunst