Ala Ebtekar

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Ala Ebtekar
Zire gonbade kabood (Under the Indigo Dome II)
2009
acrylic and ink on book pages mounted on canvas
triptych painting: 53 1/4” x 40 1/4” each; 53 1/4” x 120 3/4” total
CV
                            

Education


2006 

Master of Fine Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA


2002 

Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA


Select Solo Exhibitions


2017 

au(ro)ra, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Equation of Time, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

Mashrabiya: The Art of Looking Back, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA


2015

Nowheresville \ ‘nä-kōja,-abäd \, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE


2014 

Parallax, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

Xinjiang Biennale (curated by Peng Feng), Xinjiang, China

Palo Alto University Avenue Tunnel, Palo Alto, CA


2013

cylinder.us, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA


Select Group Exhibitions


2023

Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA

Artists Making Books: Poetry to Politics, British Museum, London, UK

A Point Stretched: Views on Time, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA


2022

More Than What My Hands Can Hold,” Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA


2019

What is an edition, anyway?, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

The Moon: A Voyage Through Time, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada

The Sheltering Sky, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA


2018 

EXPO Chicago, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Chicago, IL 

Visual Anthology: Artworks and the Book, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

FAULTline, Toby’s Art Gallery, Point Reyes Station, CA

Long, Winding Journeys: Contemporary Art and the Islamic Tradition, Katonah Museum of Art, NY

Thekla, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

Safina, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE


2017 

Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times, diRosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA

L’horreur du Vide, Selma Feriani Gallery, Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia

Sanctuary, FOR-SITE, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA

Detritus, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), San Jose, CA

Mashrabiya: The Art of Looking Back, The Fine Arts Gallery at SF State University, San Francisco, CA

Esho Funi, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA


2016

Summer Programming, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE


2015

Retrospective, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA 

Space Between Our Fingers, Apexart Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Angels, Saints, and Co., Aaran Projects, Tehran, Iran 

Formal Relations, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY

Misappropriations, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA


2014 

State of the Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Brentonville, AR

The Vastness is Bearable, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara Satellite, Santa Barbara, CA

Theory of Survival: Fabrications, A project by Taraneh Hemami, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA 

Encounter: Listening to the City, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE

Now Read This, Boise State University Arts Gallery, Boise, ID

Equations of Sight-Similarity, Sun\Ra Projects & On Stellar Rays, New York, NY


2013 

Bibliophilia, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

The Beginning of Thinking is Geometric, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE

Migrating Identities, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Faux Real, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

Proximities: What Time is it There, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

Perpetuation of Myth, The Museums of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA


Select Collections


British Museum, London, UK

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, Delhi, India

UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA

Deutsche Bank Collection

Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

The Farjam Collection, Dubai, UAE

de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA