HK ZAMANI
Habib Kheradyar Zamani Biography
Iranian-born artist HK Zamani (Habib Kheradyar Zamani) lives and works in Los Angeles. His work is guided by extreme influences ranging from asceticism to psychedelia. He has exhibited in many cities, including New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, London, Vienna, Prague, Seoul, and Saigon. His work is in the permanent collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Berkeley Museum of Art, and AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara. He has received the COLA grant, and the California Community Foundation Getty grant. Zamani is the founder and director of PØ ST (1995-present), a subversive venue for contemporary art, where nearly five hundred exhibitions have been presented.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Around Black, Warschaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA
2013 Remembering and Forgetting, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Eros/Thanatos, DELETE, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Performing, Groundspace, Los Angeles, CA
2011 In-between Air, Land and Sea, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Shelter from the Storm, SolwayJones, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Star Spangled Banner, Flood Gallery, Asheville, NC
2004 The Ride, LincArt, San Francisco, CA
2003 Edifice/Oedipus, London Street Projects, Los Angeles
Fabric & Armature Paintings, Miller/Durazo, Los Angeles
2000 LA Art Court, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Red, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Stretch, Miller Fine Art, Los Angeles
DNA Windows, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1996 Dot to Dot, Room, Catalog, New York, NY
More Dots, Gallery LASCA, Los Angeles
1995 New Works, Pierce College, Catalog, Woodland Hills, CA
1994 New Works, Food House, Santa Monica, CA
1991 New Works, Mendenhall Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier, CA
1990 New Works, Karl Bornstein Gallery, Catalog, Santa Monica, CA
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2013 Invisible in Visible, Groundspace,(collaboration with Tomas Ruller),
performances with simulcast, LA/Czech Republic
2012 In Communication, PØ ST,(collaboration with Tomas Ruller),
performances with simulcast, LA/Czech Republic
2009 Independence In Dependence, (collaboration with Tomas Ruller),
performances with simulcast, LA/Czech Republic
Fashion of the Veil, Irrational exhibit 7, Track 16, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Open Situation, Prague Quadrennial, Wenseslas Square,
Prague, The Czech Republic.
Open Situation, Performance Art Center, Lublin, Poland
Scheherazade I and II, BWA Gallery, Bidgoszcz, Poland
2006 Southern Veil, Flood Gallery, Asheville, NC
1972, (collaboration with Amitis Motevalli), Track 16, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Edifice/Oedipus IV, Kampa Museum, Prague, The Czech Republic
Certain Traces, (collaboration with Tomas Ruller), Karlin Space,
Prague, The Czech Republic
Face to Face, (collaboration with Tomas Ruller),
Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall, Los Angeles
2003 White on White, Even, Ise Cultural Foundation, New York, NY
Impasse/In the Veil III, Riva Gallery, New York, NY
Edifice/Oedipus III, Art Omi, Ghent, NY
Edifice/Oedipus, London Street Projects, Los Angeles
2002 Impasse/In the Veil, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Impasse/In the Veil II, Frankfurt International Art Fair, Germany
1999 In the Blue, Arizona State University Art Museum, Online Catalog,
Tempe, Arizona
1997 Dotman, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria
RightWrong, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1996 The Climb, Municipal Art Gallery, Video, Barnsdall Park, Hollywood, CA
1989 East/West, Gong, (collaboration with Tomas Ruller) Prague, The Czech Republic
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Gesture, Arnea 1 Gallery, curated by Carl Berg, Santa Monica, CA
2014 Pierogi XX, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Winter, Warschaw Gallery, curated by Ron Linden, San Pedro, CA
MasAttack, Torrance Art Museum, Artra Curatorial, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Paradox Maintenance Technicians, curated by Max Presneill, Torrance Museum, CA
MasAttack, LA Mart, Artra Curatorial, Los Angeles, CA
Forms of Abstraction, curated by Carl Berg, Irvine Fine Arts, Irvine, CA
Sense and Sensibility, curated by Fatemeh Burnes,
Mt San Antonio College Art Gallery, Walnut, CA
2012 Impression, curated by Carl Berg, Irvine Fine Arts, Irvine, CA
2010 For Your Pleasure, curated by Clyde Beswick, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Difference and Repetition, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Water, Silpakorn University Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
Elements, Cal Poly San Lois Obispo, CA
On the Shoulder of Davids, curated by Ichiro Irie, Jaus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Inadvertent Rapture, curated by Michael Shaw, Flexco, Los Angeles, CA
2007 A Certain Slant of Light, curated by Meridith McNeal,
Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, New York, NY
2006 Materialwise (Revisited), domestic setting, curated by Carl Berg, Venice, CA
2005 C.O.L.A Anniversary Exhibit, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park
2004 C.O.L.A Exhibit, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park
Irrational Exhibits, Traction 16 Gallery, curated by Lida Abdul & Deborah Oliver, Santa Monica, CA
Coverage, M+R space to fill, curated by Shane Bradford, London, England
Dialogue Prague/LA, curated by Barbara Benish,
Los Angeles and Prague, The Czech Republic
Minimal Form, Galerie Dionisi, Los Angeles
Poetics of Proximity, curated by Lida Abdul and Gul Cagin,
Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Continental Divide, curated by Mark Zimmermann, Planet Tyland, Brooklyn, NY
Lotusland, curated by Nancy Gregory, Connecticut College, New London CT
2003 -[not (painting)], curated by Koan Jeff Bysa,
ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY
Specificity, Riva Gallery, curated by Odili Donald Odita, New York, NY
In the Gloaming, Art Omi, curated by Koan Jeff Bysa, Ghent, NY
Sequel, curated by William Radawec, domestic setting, Los Angeles, CA
25 Years of Separation, curated by Farzad Karimi, ArteCultural, Los Ageles, CA
Gridlock, curated by Kristina Newhouse,
West LA College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Transit: survival skills, Park Paradise Complex, curated by Leo Bravo,
Scottsdale, Arizona
Painting’s Edge, curated by Roland Reiss, Idyllwild Art Foundation, CA
California Dreamin’, Davis-Keil Gallery, Naples, Florida
Five, Superior, curated by Bill Radawec, Cleveland, Ohio
2001 Big Plastic, Armory Center for the Arts, curated by Jay Belloli, Pasadena, CA
Ocular Spectrum, Raid Projects, curated by Carl Berg, Los Angeles
2000 08-30-00, Gallery 138, Kent State University, curated by Bill Radawec, Kent, Ohio
Murals, Irvine Fine Arts Center, curated by Carl Berg, Irvine, CA
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
2009 Long Beach City College Foundation Grant, CA
2005 California Foundation Grant, Los Angeles, CA
2004 C.O.L.A. Grant, City of Los Angeles, CA
2000 Alumni Hall of Fame Founding Member, Claremont Graduate University, CA
1997 Certificate of Honor for Contributing to the Arts, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA
1990 Certificate of Honor for Contributing to the Arts & Humanities, CSUDH, Carson, CA
1986-8 California Graduate Fellowship
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Berkeley Art museum, University of California, Berkeley
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Permanent Collection