مریم تقوی
Maryam Taghavi | www.maryamtaghavi.com maryam@maryamtaghavi.com
EDUCATION
2014 – 2017 Master of Fine Arts (Performance)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
2009 - 2010 Visiting Program Certificate
Architectural Association School of Architecture, Tehran University, Iran
2004 - 2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture and Installation)
Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada
TEACHING
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Lecturer
2023 – Present Wearing Many Hats, 300 Level Arts Administration
2020 – Present Core I, Core II, Research, Contemporary Practices
2018 – Present Interdisciplinary Graduate Advisor, Graduate Division
Organizer, Co-Programmer
2023 Artbash Performance Festival
2022 Artbash Performance Festival
2020 CP Curriculum Committee
Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
2019 Postcolonial Cultural Theory Seminar, Brendan Fernandes
AWARDS AND GRANTS AND ACQUISITIONS
2024 3Arts, shortlisted, USA
2024 Rematch Award, USA
2023 University Club of Chicago, USA (acquisition)
2023 Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2022 Artadia Award, Chicago, USA
2022 Spark Grant, Chicago, USA
2022 Residency Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2021 Driehaus Museum Fellowship, Chicago, USA
2020 Diversity Infusion Grant, Chicago, USA
2019 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Vermont, USA
2019 Canada Council for the Arts, Grant for Art Residency, Canada
2017 Leadership Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
2016 Emerging Artist Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2015 Interoffice project selection, Canada Council For the Arts, Canada
2014 New Artist Society Scholarship, SAIC, Chicago, USA
2014 Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
RESIDENCIES
2025 Nars Foundation, New York, USA
2025 Banff Center, Alberta, Canada
2025 La Napoule, France
2024 Banff Center, Alberta, Canada
2023 Roger Brown Residency, Michigan, USA
2021 BOLT at Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, USA
2020 Driehaus Museum, Chicago, USA
2019 Vermont Studio Residency, Vermont, USA
2015 ACRE, Steuben, USA
2015 OxBow, Saugatuck, USA
2014 Banff Residency, Banff, Canada
2012 Sazmanab Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012 The Urban Art House Center, Tehran, Iran
PRESS and PUBLICATIONS
2025 Border Crossings, Review (forthcoming)
2025 C Magazine, Review (forthcoming)
2025 Canadian Art, Review (forthcoming)
2024. NBC 2024 Rising Women Series
2025 Estranged Letters, PBS commissioned documentary Doc NYC
2024 Estranged Letters, Chicago Film Festival, Competition Shorts
2024 Review of Nothing Is, Brooklyn Rail, Pia Singh
2024 The Modern Art Notes Podcast, Interview by Tyler Green
2024 WBEZ Radio
2024 Marking Her Words, Artist Profile, Canvas Magazine by Charlotte Goddu
2024 Review of Maryam Taghavi at the MCA, Lori Waxman, Hyperallergic Magazine
2024 Review of Maryam Taghavi at the MCA, Annette Lepique, NewCity Magazine
2024 Review of Maryam Taghavi at the MCA, Micco Caporale, Reader Magazine
2023 Exhibition Announcement, OCULA
2023 Exhibition Announcement, NewCity Magazine
2023 Exhibition Announcement, e-flux Magazine
2023 Artist Profile, Chicago Magazine
2023 New City Artists’ Artist, Chicago, USA
2023 New City, 5 Best Booths in EXPO, Chicago, USA
2023 O’Hare Terminal 5 Expansion
2023 Exhibition Announcement, Museum of Contemporary Art
2023 Artist Profile, Art Gallery of York University, Felicia Mings
2023 Chicago Reader, Spell Casting, Kerry Cardoza
2021 Exhibition Review, A Form By Which to Be Possessed, Hamza Walker
2020 Flag Art: Raising New Symbols of Belonging, Susan Snodgrass
2018 Chicago Tribune, Exhibition Asks Hard Immigration Questions, Lori Waxman
2017 The Seen, Reverse Archeology, Niloufar Sarlati
2016 Ugly Duckling Publication, Between Paradise and A Hard Place
2016 Joan Flasch Artist Collection, jä be jä, Chicago, USA
2016 Joan Flasch Artist Collection, Ass Without a Burden Walks Nimbly, Chicago, USA
2014 Art Metropole, from mouth to mouth: an exercise in intimacy, Toronto, Canada
2013 FUSE Magazine, Re: Ouster_Union, Toronto, Canada
2013 XPace Publication, Sight Specific, Toronto, Canada
2012 Ugly Duckling Publication, One Hundred Stitches, Chicago, USA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (SOLO and GROUP)
2025 Opera Studio of the Music school, Iowa University,
Performance with Jamshid Jam
2025 Art Gallery of York University, Canada (SOLO)
Nothing Is, Curated by Felicia Valentine Mings
2025 Eskenazi Museum, Indiana, USA (SOLO Screening)
God Sees, Curated by Elliot Leila Reinchart
2024 Edlis Neeson Theater, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Light Line, A performance in collaboration with Jamshid Jam
2024 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (SOLO)
Nothing Is, Curated by Bana Kattan
2023 O’Hare Airport, Chicago, USA (permanent installation)
Spell for a Safe Passage, DCASE Project, Curated by BeharXSchachman
2023 EXPO Art Fair, Chicago, IL
Artadia Booth
2023 Blanc Gallery, Chicago, IL (SOLO)
A Leap Has Not Return, Curated by Rohan Ayinde
2022 University Club, Chicago, IL (SOLO)
Blowing into Thin Matter
2022 Shamide Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Through the Lens, Curated by Sanam Samanian
2021 Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, USA (SOLO)
A Form By Which To Be Possessed
2021 6018 North
A Raisin in the Sun
2021 Driehaus Museum, Chicago, USA
A Tale of Today, Kekeli Sumac
2021 Chicago Artist Coalition
One Thousand Plateaus, Curated by Kristin Korolowicz
2020 Four Flags, Manual Style, Chicago, USA
Flames, Curated by Stephanie Castello, Ruslana Lichtzier
2020 Lubeznic Art Center, Michigan, USA
Living Architecture, Curated by Tricia Van Eyck
2020 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Influx, Curated by Tricia Van Eyck
2019 EXPO International Art Fair (SOLO)
Anatomy of a Fall
2019 Weinberg-Newton Gallery, Chicago, USA
The Way the Mystic Sees, Curated by Nabiha Khan
2019 Weinberg-Newton Gallery, Chicago, USA
Anatomy of a Fall
2019 Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, USA
Center Program, Curated by Juarez Hawkins
2018 6018 North, Chicago, USA
Living Architecture, Curated by Tricia Van Eyck, Teresa E. Silva
2018 Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Kentucky
Lake Effect, Curated by Andrea Fisher and Trevor Martin)
2018 Hyde Park Art Center
Ground Floor, Curated by Allison Peters Quin
2018 Defibrillator (SOLO)
Anatomy of a Siren
2017 Grace Space, Brooklyn, NY
Anatomy of a Siren
2017 Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago
Untitled (Study on a Silhouette)
2017 LAXART, Los Angeles
Reconstitution, Curated by Hamza Walker and Catherine Taft
2017 Queens Museum, NY
Liveart.US, Curated by Hector Canonge)
2017 SpreadArt, Detroit
Rapid Pulse Tour
2017 Sullivan Galleries, Chicago
Reverse Archeology, Curated by Elliot Reichart and Daniel Fuller
2016 Sullivan Galleries, Chicago
Painting in Time II (curated by Kate Wilson)
2016 Chicago STARTUP Art Fair, Chicago, USA
Bed Fictions
2016 LeRoy Neiman Center, Chicago
Ass Without a Burden Surely Walks Nimbly
2016 Links Hall, Chicago
Falling in Order: An Exercise in Reading
2015 Links Hall, Chicago
Between Paradise and a Hard Place
2015 Defibrillator (Rapid Pulse Festival), Chicago
Variations on Utterance (curated by Joseph Ravens)
2014 Tarahan Azad, Tehran, Iran
jä be jä curatorial project
2014 Hatch Residency, Harbourfront Center, Toronto, Canada
The Ballad of Student B, in collaboration with Francisco Granados
2014 Le Labo, Toronto, Canada
Squint, Performative Lecture
2014 Unpack Studio, Toronto, Canada
from mouth to mouth: an exercise in intimacy
2013 Hub 14, Toronto, Canada
Variations on Utterance
2013 Decolonial Aesthetics Symposium, University of Toronto, Canada
Aesthetics of Mother Tongue (Rapid Pulse Festival)
2013 Fado Center for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Canada
Variations on Absurdity, Site-Specific (curated by F.F Granados)
WORKSHOPS, INTERVIEWS, LECTURES
2025 Jury, City of Austin, Art in Public Places - Red Bud Isle
2025 Artist Talk, University of Denver, United States
2025 Artist Talk, Art Gallery of York University, Canada
2024 Artist Talk, Eskenazi Museum, USA
2024 Guest Visitor, Northwestern University, USA
2024 Guest Visitor, University of Denver, USA
2024 Artist Talk, University of Chicago, USA
2024 Panelist (PBS Documentary on Maryam Taghavi), MCA, Chicago
2023 Artist Talk, Blanc Gallery, Chicago, USA
2022 Panelist for Woman, Life, Freedom, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
2022 Artist Talk, University Club, Chicago, USA
2022 Jury, Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, USA
2021 Interview, On the Occasion of…, Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, USA
2021 Interview, Islamic Arts Initiative, Columbia College, Chicago, USA
2020 Panelist, Divergent Realities, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, USA
2020 Interview with Daniel Quiles, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, USA
2019 Interview with Bad at Sports, Chicago, USA
2017 Moderator, 3 Generations of Diaspora at SAIC, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, USA
2017 Panelist, Immigration and Adaptation, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, USA
2016 Artist Talk, God Sees and Identity, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, USA
2016 Workshop, Ass Without a Burden Walks Nimby, SAIC, Chicago, USA
2016 Artist Talk, Modes of Escape, Columbus Auditorium, Chicago, USA
2015 Lecture, Performance as a Drawing Tool I, Xpace Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2014 Curator Talk+Panel, Displacement and Accent, Tarrahan Azad, Tehran, Iran
2014 Curator Talk+Panel, Unpack Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2014 Reading Group, Translating into English, Kaf Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013 Lecture, Performance as a Drawing Tool II, Sazmanab Residency, Tehran, Iran
2013 Artist Talk, Translation and Accent, Sazmanab Gallery, Tehran, Iran
BOARD MEMBER
2022 - present Co-Prosperity Cultural Center, Chicago, USA
2012 - 2014 FADO Performance Art Center, Toronto, Canada
2012 - 2014 FUSE Magazine, Toronto, Canada