Mitra Tabrizian

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Mitra Tabrizian was born in Tehran, Iran, and is a photographer and filmmaker. She is also a professor of photography at the University of Westminster, London, England.

Tabrizian published her first monograph, Correct Distance, in 1990. Her photographic book Beyond the Limits, published in 2004, is a critique of corporate culture and is inspired by the works of Jean Baudrillard and Jean-François Lyotard. Her films include Journey of No Return (1993), The Third Woman (1991), and ‘'The Predator'’ (2004). Tabrizian has exhibited her work at Modern Art Oxford, Gallery Lelong, New York, the Architectural Association, London, and numerous film festivals.

[edit] Selected Exhibitions

2007 International Photo, Phillips de Pury, New York
Wall House project (on the work of an American architect John Hejduk), Noorderlicht Gallery, Groningen, Netherlands, and Wall House Foundation, traveling to. New York (forthcoming)
FotoArtFestival, Poland
2006 Solo show, Moderna Musset, Stockholm, Sweden
10th Venice Biennale of architecture, Italy
Voodoo Macbeth: a tribute to the work of Orson Welles, De la Warr Pavilion, United Kingdom
2004 Solo Show, BBK, Bilbao, Spain
Solo show, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Far Near Distance –`New Positions of Contemporary Iranian Artists’, the House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
2003 Solo show, Museum of Folkwang, Germany
Veil, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, United Kingdom (touring in Europe)