hadieh shafie
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  EDUCATION: 
2004 MFA Imaging and Digital Art UMBC, MD 
1999 MFA Painting Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 
1993 BA Painting University of Maryland, College Park, MD

GRANTS & AWARDS: 
2011 Jameel Prize, V&A Museum, London, UK Shortlist
2011 Franz and Virginia Bader Fund, Washington D.C.
2010 Individual Artist Grant, Maryland State Arts Council
2009 Mary Sawyers Baker Award, William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund 
2008 Individual Artist Grant, Maryland State Arts Council 
2003 RTKL Grant in Visual Arts 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 
2011
Ketabeh Eshghe (Book of Love), Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (Current)
Ketab (Book), XVA Gallery, Dubai, UAE 
Sweet Turning of the Page, Morton Fine Art, Washington D.C. 

2010 Some Kind of Love, Jean Efron Art Consultants, Washington D.C.
2009 Paper Pattern Color Culture, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 
2008 Exodus, The Carriage House, Baltimore, MD

2004 
The Little Black Fishes, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD Spin, MFA Exhibition, CVAC, UMBC, Baltimore, MD

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2013
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, CA, Jameel Prize Exhibition

2012
Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris, France Jameel Prize Exhibition Current
SHOW OFF! SPM Private Museum, Dubai UAE Current
Artist Invitational, Conley Art Gallery USC Frescno Current
Casa Arabe, Madrid, Spain Jameel Prize Exhibition *Upcoming
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. USA Jameel Prize Exhibition *Upcoming
Dance of the Whirling Dervish, Hadieh Shafie & Nja Mahdaoui 
Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Zurich SW *Upcoming

2011 
Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Zurich SW
Contemporary Istanbul, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Zurich SW
Art Asia Miami, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Zurich SW
Aqua Art Miami, Pentimenti Gallery,Philadelphia, PA
SHOW OFF! SPM Private Museum, Dubai UAE
IMPACT. 30th Anniversary Benefit Exhibition and Auction Maryland Art Place
Sotheby's Auction, London, UK Contemporary Art/ Arab & Iranian 
Jameel Prize, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Pulse Art Fair, New York, NY 
Select: Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.

2010 
Ritual: Form, Script and Gesture, A Pop Up Project,Morton Fine Art, Washington DC More of the best is yet to come, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Crazy Beautiful II, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY 
Sondheim Prize, Semi-Finalist Exhibition, MICA, Baltimore, MD MICA Sondheim Prize and Baker Award Honorees, Casewerks Baltimore, MD 
I(RAN) Home (In America), CoCA, Seattle, WA
Gallery Artists Group Show, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2009 
Hidden Wounds, Paper Bullets: Iranian Contemporary Art, Grant Arts Central, Fullerton CA 
I (RAN) Home (In America), The Fridge DC, Washington D.C. 
Cross‐Currents: Trends in Contemporary Art Media, Sarah Silberman Gallery, MD 
Protocol: Syntax / Semantics, Gallery 4, Baltimore, MD
Baker Artist Awards Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Women’s Work, Civilian Art Place, Washington D.C.
Bastakiya Art Fair, Saatchi, Dubai, UAE
Bi‐Annual Symposium on Media Arts, Delaware College, Delaware, PA

2008 
Drawing Fusion, CCBC, Catonsville, MD
Hidden and Revealed, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Full Circle, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
Penned, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2007
Iconology, Red Saw Gallery, Newark, New Jersey
Changing Climate Changing Colors, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY

2006 
The Notebook, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Displacement, Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD

2004 
Solace:Searching for Meaning in a Time of Distress, Middle East Institute,
Washington, D.C.

2003 Under The Table and Dreaming, Raleigh Studios, Baltimore, MD
2002 Solace, Open Studio Exhibition, Raleigh Studios, Baltimore, MD

1999 
30 x30, Cinque Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Show, Center for Iranian Modern Art, New York, NY

1998 Art of the Book, Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, NY
1997 Now and Here, Steuben Gallery West, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1996 Women, East Galleries, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

1995 
Art Made in Exile: Iranian Artists, George Washington University,Washington, D.C.
Contemporary Iranian Artists, Avicenna Center, Vienna, VA

COLLECTIONS:
Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE
Bank of America, Corporation Collection, North Carolina 
Art in Embassies, Public Collection, Dubai, UAE
Private Corporation Collection, London, UK 
Private Corporation Collection, Hong Kong
Numerous Private Collections in USA and Abroad

SELECTED REVIEWS/PUBLICATIONS:
Tiffany Jow, "All Wound Up", DC Magazine, (July/August) p51
Bruce Helander, "Artist To Watch", The Art Economist, (Volume 1, Issue 5, 2011) p72
Tara Heuser, "The sweet turning of the page", Pink Line Project, (June 1, 2011)
The National, "Splashes of color and love" (2011) p7
Aquarius, "Get your Fix" (May, 2011) p15 
F. Lennox Campello, Letter from Washington, DC, American Contemporary Art,
(May 2011) Cover Feature 
Michael O'Sullivan, Hadieh Shafie at Morton Fine Art, Washington Post, Thursday, (May 19, 2011)
John Anderson, Hadieh Shafie at Morton Fine Art, Washington City Paper,
(May 9, 2011)
Bruce Helander, Top Ten Artists To Watch, Huffington Post, (April, 2011) 
Joseph Lanner, “Old traditions, new ideas” Esquire Middle East, (April, 2011) p48 
The Vicotria & Albert Museum Announces the Shortlist for the Jameel Prize
2011” Art Daily (March, 2011)
V&A Announces Jameel Prize shortlist, Eastern Art Report (March, 2011)
Amy Levine- Kennedy, "Crazy Beautiful Opens at Kenise Barnes Fine Art" Larchmont-Mamaroneck Patch, (September 29, 2010)
Barbara O'Brien, Juror's Comments, New American Paintings #88, The Open Studio Press, Boston, MA, 2010
Emily Warner, “paperpatterncolorculture” The Brooklyn Rail, (November, 2009)
Dave Barton, “Mythologizing the Martyrs of Iran at Grand Central Art Center”, Orange County Weekly (December 3, 2009)
Maura Judkis, “ I RAN Home (in America)”, Washington City Paper, 
(November 11, 2009)
Michael O’Sullivan, “In Baltimore, Artists Win a Vote of confidence” Washington Post, (May 22, 2009)
Bret McCabe, “Moving Pictures Exhibition Exploring Transforming Images Also Recasts Their Emotive Potential” Baltimore City Paper, (February 25, 2009)
Ellyn Weiss, “Wright, Shafie, Cabazon and Tan at Civilian Art Projects” eweissart.com
Robert Jason Fagan, “Hand to Frame/Surface to Lens” Exhibition Catalogue, (February, 2009)
Robert Jason Fagan, “Drawing Fusion” Exhibition Catalogue, (October, 2008)
Bret McCabe, Visions of Excess: Information Overload Trumps Demur Artfulness” Baltimore City Paper, (August 20, 2008)
Robert Jason Fagan & Hadieh Shafie, “Emergence,” Exhibition catalogue, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2007
Hadieh Shafie,“Siouxsie,” Link Journal on the Arts, Issue No. 10, Baltimore, MD, 2004