Hadi Tabatabai
Born 1964
Lives and works in California, USA
Education
1995Bachelor of Arts in Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, California, USA (Final Semester at Academy of Fine Arts in Prague)
1985Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology, California State University, Fresno, California, USA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023Hadi Tabatabai and Norman Zammitt, Mahssa Talai, Paris, France
2022Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2020Black, White, sometimes Blue, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, USA
2019Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2018Blue Nights, Inde/Jacobs, Marfa, Texas, USA
2018To Find Rest, The Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2017Whats:ON? Festival 2017, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
2017Transitional Spaces, Miller Gallery at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
2015Inde/Jacobs, Marfa, Texas, USA
2014Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, USA
2013Aus der Sache heraus - From the thing itself, Kunstgaleriebonn, Bonn, Germany
2011Portals, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California, USA
2010Danese, New York, USA
2010Silence and Abundance, Inde/Jacobs, Marfa, Texas, USA
2009Inde/Jacobs, Marfa, Texas
2009The Space of a Line, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California, USA
2006Daruni, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
2005Interior Spaces, Anthony Grant Gallery, New York, USA
2004James Nicholson Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
2000Introductions, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020Black the Queen of Color, Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2019The Spark Is You, Parasol Unit, London, UK
2018Way Bay II, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California, USA
2018Way Bay, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California, USA
2018Ruminate, Begovich Gallery, CSUF, Fullerton, California, USA
2017In Conversation – Hadi Tabatabai + Lucie Noel Thune, College of Marin, Kentfield, California, USA
2017The Box Project: Uncommon Threads, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, USA
2017The Box Project: Uncommon Threads, Textiles Museum @ George Washington University, Washington D.C, USA
2016The Box Project: Uncommon Threads, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
2015Intro, Kunstgaleriebonn, Bonn, Germany
2014Extending the Line, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
2013The Sound of the Surface. A Drawing Project – William Anastasi, Frank Gerritz, Hadi Tabatabai, Galerie Kim Behm, Frankfurt, Germany
2013Indian Tantric + Western Contemporary, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2013Never Underestimate a Monochrome, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Rancho Cucamonga, California, USA
2012Abstraction: A Dialogue between Colombian and International Artists, Beatriz Esguerra Art, Bogota, Colombia
2012Never Underestimate a Monochrome, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
2012Notations: Contemporary drawing as idea and process (selections from the Sally and Wynn Kramarsky collection), Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2012Never Underestimate A Monochrome, University of Iowa Museum of Art (online exhibition)
2012Cool, Calm, Collected, Danese, New York, USA
2012Papier/Paper II, Kunstgalerie Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2011Drift of Summer, RM Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2011Papier/Paper, Kunstgalerie Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2011Different Abstractions, Green Cardamom, London, UK
2011Drawn / Taped / Burned, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA
2011Works on Paper, Danese, New York, USA
2010Touch, Paris CONCRET, Paris, France
2010IRAN diVERSO: Black or White?, Verso Artecontemporanea, Turin, Italy
2010By a Thread, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, California, USA
2010Accrochage 1, Gallery Dora Bassi, Gorizia, Italy
2010Works on Paper, Danese, New York, USA
2010At 21: Gifts and Promised Gifts in Honor of The Contemporary Museum's 20th Anniversary, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
2009Metaphysical Abstraction: Contemporary Approaches to Spiritual Content, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California, USA
2009Mashq: Repetition Meditation Mediation, Green Cardamom, London, UK
2009Yield, Schmidt Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
2008Banned and Recovered, San Francisco center for the book, California, USA
2008East of the West, SOMARTS, San Francisco, California, USA
2008Out of the Fog / Artists from Headlands, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, California, USA
2006Gridlock, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2006Series, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2005Drawings & Works on Paper II Selected artists from the US, Patrick Heide Art Projects, London, UK
2005Repeat Performance, Anthony Grant Gallery, New York, USA
2004Woodwork, Anthony Grant Gallery, New York, USA
2001Current Holdings: Bay Area Drawing / Bay Area Collections, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California, USA
2001Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
2001Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Selected Public & Private Collections
The Achenbach Foundation at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, USA
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California, USA
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, USA
Balton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA
The Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
The Progressive Corporation, Ohio, USA
Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, USA
Lloyd Cotsen, Los Angeles, California, USA
The Estate of Agnes Martin, USA
Luc Tuymans, Belgium
Awards & Honours
2010Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California, USA
2008Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award
2008Kala Art Institute Artist in Residence, Berkeley, California, USA
2006-2008Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California, USA
2005ASIA Alive Artist in Residence, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California, USA
2004SFMOMA SECA Award Finalist
Selected Bibliography
2019Robert Hayden III "The Space Where Perfection, Beauty and Reality Come Together" (essay), Ruminate, California State University, Fullerton, Grand Central Press
2019Maria Porges "Hadi Tabatabai - At the Edge of Perception" (essay), The Spark Is You, Parasol Unit
2017Scott Turri. "Hadi Tabatabai : Transitional Spaces," New Art Examiner
2012Elizabeth Volk. "Thread drawings" (essay), Peter Lodermeyer
2012"Paper II" (essay), Papier/Paper II – Kunstgalerie Bonn
2011Peter Lodermeyer, "Hadi Tabatabai" (essay), Papier/paper – Kunstgalerie Bonn
2011David M. Roth, "Hadi Tabatabai @ Brian Gross," SquareCylinder.com
2011Liz Glass, "Portals" Artpractical.com
2010Peter Lodermeyer, "Silence and Abundance" (essay), Silence and Abundance, Tabatabai/Beltjens
2009Peter Selz, "Lyric Representation of Sacred, Unattainable Worlds," The Berkeley Daily Planet
2009Ellen Berkovitch, "New Iranian Art in Marfa", Adobe airstream
2009Cynthia Houng, "Hadi Tabatabai at Brian Gross Fine Art", Artweek
2009David Bonetti, "Grand center bulges with three shows, 'Yield' at Schmidt," STLtoday.com
2009Richard Whittaker, "The replenishing zero," Works + Conversations, no. 17
2007Maria Porges "Now you see it" (essay)
2007Melissa Feldman "True Grid: Art of Hadi Tabatabai" (essay)
2007Daruni – Hadi Tabatabai
2005Hadi Tabatabai, "Winter of 1995," Works + Conversations, no. 10
2004Hadi Tabatabai, "Winter of 1995," Likovne Besede/Artwords 69-70
2003Maryam Ovissi, "Journey Between Cultures—Iranian Artists in America," Eastern Art Report, no. 48
2000Mark Van Proyen, "San Francisco email," Art Issues
2000Ucef Hanjani, "Hadi Tabatabai," SOMA
2000Jesse Hamlin, "Art's a Fine Line for Hadi Tabatabai," San Francisco Chronicle (Datebook)