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Gohar Dashti (b. 1980, Ahvaz, Iran) is a photographer and video artist. She holds both a B.A. and an M.A. in Photography from the University of Art, Tehran. Dashti began her professional practice in the early 2000s and held her first solo exhibition in 2006 at Silk Road Gallery in Tehran. Her works are primarily staged, large-scale photographs that employ a conceptual and narrative approach to reflect on lived experience, contemporary history, and the social and cultural transformations of Iran. Her early practice was profoundly shaped by her lived experience of the Iran–Iraq War, which is explicitly reflected in series such as Today’s Life and War. Since the mid-2010s, her practice has expanded toward re-examining nature and its relationship to human presence and geography. In series such as Home, Untitled (Rootless), and Land(s), Dashti adopts a poetic and metaphorical visual language to address themes of migration, identity, and the transformation of landscape. Her works have been exhibited in major museums and galleries internationally.
Born: 1980, Ahvaz, Iran
Education
2005
M.A. in Photography, University of Art, Tehran
2003
B.A. in Photography, University of Art, Tehran
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Uprooted · Land(s) · Transformed Landscape, AB Blue Project, Los Angeles
2024
Vanishing Nature, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston
2021
Land(s), Aga Khan Museum, Toronto
2013
Gohar Dashti: Back and Forth, Workshop of Images, Milan
2012
Volcano, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran
2011
Slow Decay, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran
2006
Silk Road Gallery, Tehran
Group Exhibitions
2024
Forty, Thirty, Artibition Gallery, Tehran
Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham
Nature Second: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene, Cantor Arts Center, California
2023
Realism, Out of Hands Projects, London
Deep Dive – Summer Exhibition, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston
Land and Sky, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona
Yesterday’s Gesture, Praise Shadows Gallery, Massachusetts
La Gacilly Photo Festival, Outdoor Exhibition, Tehran
In Memory of Lee Majzner, Yafteh Gallery, Tehran
Lessons of Freedom: Notes on Traveling to Iran, 1970–2023, Podbielski Contemporary, Milan
2021
Blues, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp
2013
Love is All You Need, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2012
History is Ours!, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
Festival of Images, Vevey, Switzerland
It’s Not Blood, It’s Just Red, Vaya Project, Paris
The Eye of a Lonely Hunter: Images of Humankind, Grimm Museum, Berlin
Elephant in the Dark, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India
2011
Iranian Pulse, Oi Futuro Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro
Glories, White Project Gallery, Paris
Perspective, Revolution, People, Queen Gallery, Toronto
Staged Identity, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Zurich
2006
10th International Photo Biennial, Saba Art and Cultural Institute, Tehran
Grivova and Oradea Galleries, Bucharest, Romania
Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran
2005
Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran
2004
Nicole Gallery, Tehran
Art Gallery, Tehran
Barg Gallery, Tehran
Niavaran Gallery, Tehran
Mirk Gallery, Mashhad
2002
Mirk Gallery, Mashhad
2001
A Day in Afghanistan, Red Cross, Tehran
Festivals and Events
2011
4th Photo Festival The Eye of a Lonely Hunter – Images of Humankind, Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim, Germany
Awards and Honors
2011
Visiting Arts Award, One Mile² Project, Bradford, London
The "Forty, Thirty" exhibition will be opened on Friday, July 22 at the Artibishion Gallery, displaying the works of thirty artists who were forty years old at the time of preparing the book interviews of this name.
