Behnam Zakeri

Born in 1991, Iran

www.behnamzakeri.com
behnamzakeri@hotmail.com

Behnam Zakeri is a photographer and visual artist who was born in January 1991. Zakeri’s works focus on personal experiences and social reflections. He is in the middle of individuality and contemporary society in order to convey the created atmosphere to a reflective environment and expand his works through humanistic ideas. The environment and experience of living are key elements in his works. It depicts humans in a way that displays the boundary between art and society. A kind of review of the individual world and the social world that is inseparable from his point of view. He put his projects on the axis of photography, video and installation.

Solo Exhibitions:

– Public Place, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, July 2016 (IR)

– Its Incipience; Garmsary Gallery, Bandar Abbas, October 2013 (IR)

Selected Group Exhibitions:

– Jimei and Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China, 25 November – 3 January 2018 (CN)

– “Iran: Year 38”, Les Rencontres d’Arles Festival, Église Sainte-Anne, Arles (FR) / 3 July – 24 Sep 2017 (FR)

– Merci Poesi is the Gothenburg International Poetry Festival – World Culture Museum, Gothenburg, April 2017 (SE)

– Mordad Gallery Opening; Mordad Gallery, Bandar Abbas, January 2017 (IR)

– Before the After; Garmsary Gallery, Bandar Abbas, February 2015 (IR)

– The 9th Ordibehesht of Hormozgan festival, Garmsary Gallery, Bandar Abbas, 2014 (IR)

– The 11th Image of the Year, Iran Artists’ House, Tehran, March 2014 (IR)

– The 2nd Tehran Expo Iran Artists’ House, Tehran, November 2013 (IR)

– The 8th Ordibehesht of Hormozgan festival, Bandar Abbas, August 2013 (IR)

Fellowships:

–  Artist in Residency, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen 2018 (DE)

Artist Talks:

– A personal view, Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran, 2017 (IR)

– Arles 2017, Components, Approaches, Events, Mordad Gallery, Bandar Abbas 2017 (IR)

– Experiences, Farhang Hall, Bandar Jask, 2017 (IR)

Publications:

– About public Place, The Journal of Public Space, 2(4), 2018, ISSN 2206-9658 (AUS)