Bahareh Khoshooee
Assistant Professor
Biography
Bahareh Khoshooee is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, feminist activist, and the co-founder of two collectives –Blockbusters (an international group of New Media artists), and █████ (a network of feminist artists, activists, and technologists). Born in Tehran, Iran, Khoshooee uses time-based strategies in presenting work that fuses 3D environments, video projection mapping, sculpture, performance, and sound. Her practice explores the complex dualities of technology: its oppressive role in surveilling, documenting, and criminalizing BIPOC bodies, and its radical potential for futurity and alternative solidarities. Her work unearths how technology mediates the intimate and collective experiences of grief, violence, and memory, reclaiming these spaces as arenas for liberation, and reimagined futures.
Khoshooee is the recipient of Eyebeam’s Democracy Machine Fellowship and a Skowhegan alumna. She has presented her solo installations at the Dorothy Center for The Arts, Baxter St CCNY, The Elizabeth Foundation for The Arts,The Orlando Museum of Art,and NADA MIAMI 2018 among others. Khoshooee has been included in various group exhibitions including the Honor Fraser Gallery, Latinx Project, Southern Exposure, Museum of Photography Stockholm, and the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg. Her work has been featured in The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Artnet News, The Metro, and The Creators Project.
Education
2018 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2014-2017 M.F.A. in Studio Art, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2009-2014 B.A. in Industrial Design, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Publications and Projects
2024
Hyperrhiz 27 Special Issue: Blanket Forts and Other Assemblages, Raleigh, NC
2023
[Placeholder] Inaugural Issue, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, “Data Digest: The Algorithm Revisionist” by Emily Fitzpatrick, Montreal, Canada
2022
Precog Magazine Volume 7, New York, NY
Gender Bender Time Traveler catalog, Geisted, Berlin, Germany
2020
The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020: Here, Together! Catalog, The Elizabeth Foundation for The Arts, New York, NY
2018
A Wrinkle in The Air Zine (Edition of 40), SkowheganSWAPS, Skowhegan Library, New York, NY
Hiss Magazine, Issue 3, Columbus, OH
Landscape Fall 2018 catalog, Elsewhere, New York, NY
Sofia Ek: The Minefield Girl catalog, Fotografiska museet i Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
The Minefield Girl catalog, Sofia Ek and Blackdove, New York, NY
2017
The Crow’s Nest, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI
p1.8696.11.19 (gca2 Project) catalog, Mojdeh Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Skyway Catalog, Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg
The Front Catalog, The Front, New Orleans
Every Disaster Made Us Wish for More (MFA Catalog), text by Erin Hughes, Museum of Contemporary Art USF