Selected CV:

Selected education:

2019-2021            Frist-class MA Painting, Manchester School Of Art

Public collections:

University Of Salford Art Collection

Government Art Collection

Grundy Art Gallery

Touchstones Rochdale

Selected awards, grants and commissions:

2023      Recipient of DYCP (Develop Your Creative Practice) grant by ACE (Arts Council of England)

2023      Recipient of Hybrid Futures co-commission funded by ACE and Art Fund, supported by Grundy Gallery, Rochdale Touchstone, University of Salford Art Collection, and Castlefield Gallery.

2023      4C Group UKNA Bursary Recipient for 2023-2024

2021 & 2022        Two short films commissioned by the Oscar wining film maker and animator Joan Gratz, produced in in collaboration with director and film maker Martin Cooper.

2022      Recipient of Art Assembly: City As Art School commission organized by the Manchester College in partnership with Castlefield Gallery, Whitworth Art Gallery, and Manchester Art Gallery.

2022      Commissioned to Illustrate the “Evicted in the morning” album art, Released by Disciples records, London, UK.

2022      Commissioned to Illustrate the “Patience of the traitor” album art, Released by Other People, NY, USA.

2021      Commissioned to Illustrate the “Inshallahland” album art, Released by Room 40, Red Hills, Australia.

2021      Recipient of Arts Council of England Project Grant to develop the “Graffiti, art and protest in Iran” Virtual Reality project

2021      Recipient of the Innovate Grant quarterly fund for spring 2021

2020      Recipient of LOITER commission and programme by Proforman

2020      Senior designer and artist of “Graffiti, Art and Protest in Iran” VR project in collaboration with Limina Immersive Company, commissioned by Journeys Festival International as part of Liberty EU programme funded by Creative Europe.

2020      Short animation commissioned by University of Salford Art Collection in partnership with Castlefield Gallery/Agency as part of the Covid Commissions

2020      Recipient of Arts Council of England Emergency Response Funding

Artist residency:

2022      Desire Lines residency program organised by Proforma in partnership with Pase Platform, Begenhungen Festival, and Chemnitz’s University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany.

2021      Look Up 2021 residency program supported by ArtReach, Aspex Gallery and coculture Berlin.

2016     Art, Social Space and Public discourse in Iran Symposium, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.

Solo exhibitions:

2023      Painting: An Unending, HOME, Manchester, UK. (Curated by Clarissa Corfe)

2022      Fine Kettle of Fish, Granada Foundation Galleries, Manchester, UK.

2021      FIG. 1, Caustic Coastal, Manchester, UK.

2021      Against the absurdity of life, Maria Behnam-Bakhtiar Gallery, Monte Carlo, Monaco.

2020      Parham Ghalamdar, The Conduit, London, UK. (Organised in partnership with Workplace Foundation)

2020      Parham Ghalamdar, Workplace Foundation, Gateshead, UK.

Duo exhibitions:

2023      Poetics Of Water duo show with Jessica El Mal, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK.

2022      Half Awake duo show with Joseph OR’ourke, Bankley Gallery + Studios, Manchester, UK.

Selected group exhibitions, screenings, and art fairs:

2023      Wink Wink, The Whitaker Museum, Rosendale, UK.

2023      Narratives, The Lowry, Salford, UK.

2022      Asia Now Art Fair, Represented by Bavan Gallery, Paris, France.

2022      Jing Art Fair, Represented by Bavan Gallery, Beijing, China.

2022      London Paint Club, Koppel Project Space X Piccadilly Circus, London, UK.

2022      Tendencies in Painting, London Paint Club, London, UK.

2022      Exh09, Floorr, London, UK

2022      Beep Biennale, Elysium gallery, Swansea, UK.

2022      Fayre Share Fayre group show as part of the A Modest Show, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK.

2022      Proforma Pavilion, Pase Platform, Venice Biennale, Italy.

2022      Gilchrist-Fisher Award Final show, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK.

2021      I Matter touring juried group exhibition, Peterborough Museum, Peterborough, UK.

2020      Somewhere Between Reality And Obscurity, The Viewing Room of UK New Artists (UKNA). (Curated by Garth Gratrix)

2020      Peer To Peer: UK/HK Festival, Led by Ying Kwok, CFCCA, Open Eye Gallery and University Of Salford Art Collection.

2020      Unrest juried group show, Union Memorial Gallery, North Dakota State University, USA.

2020      MA & Other Postgraduates 2020 juried group show, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset, UK.

Selected publication:

2022      Dr. Pamela Karimi, Alternative Iran, Stanford University Publications, Stanford, USA.

Selected artist talks:

2023      Q&A with Shezad Dawood, HOME, Manchester, UK.

2022      “Manchester: A Shifting Landscape” artist talk, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK.

2020      “Parham Ghalamdar in conversation with Jenny Eden”, Workplace Foundation, Gateshead, UK.

2019      “Protest, art and culture in post-revolutionary Iran”, Artist talk and panel discussion as part of the Journeys Festival International 2019, People’s History Museum, Manchester, UK.