Eshrat Erfanian
  • About
  • My 9am is Your 10pm
  • Waiting for Rostam
  • My 10pm is your 9am
  • The 4th & the 5th Edition
  • Time Caught By The Tail
  • Start Dreaming
  • Tres-pass
  • Vestigium II
  • C.V. and Bio
  • Contact
Eshrat Erfanian is an Iranian born Toronto based multi media artist. She has exhibited her work in Europe, Canada, and U.S.A. She opened her solo exhibition at Azad Gallery in Tehran, Iran, in April 2015, and will have her solo exhibition at Trinity Square Video in Toronto, in 2017.  Erfanian’s collaborative work with Public Studio collective opened at the Jewish Museum in New York City last spring. She has taught painting, drawing and art theory for the last 15 years in McMaster University, York University and University of Toronto. She is an alumni of the Whitney Museum of American art in New York City and has an MFA from U of T. In 2013, she finished her PhD in studio art in visual arts, at York University. Her doctorate thesis is focused on the effect of the new technologies, surveillance and virtual time on our everyday sensory and images of art.  Her current work includes Google Earth images of residential neighborhoods in Tehran and Toronto.

Selected Solo Exhibitions


2015        4th & 5th Edition, Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013        Time Caught By The Tail, Gales Gallery, Toronto
2010       Start Dreaming, Gales Gallery, Toronto
2005      Tres-pass, The James K. Bartleman Art Gallery, Elliot Lake, Ontario
2003      Vestigium II, Red Head Gallery, Toronto
1999        The 99 International Festival of Arts, Gyur, Hungary
1998        Vestigium I, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York
1996        Transparent Presence, Concord Gallery, New York
                
Transparent Presence, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York
               
 Transparent Presence, La Centrale, Montréal
1995       
Transparent Presence, The New Gallery, Calgary
               
 Transparent Presence, SAW Gallery, Ottawa
1994       
Transparent Presence, Artspace, Peterborough

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013        Photorama, Gallery TPW, Toronto
2012        Centre, TSV (Trinity Square Video), Toronto
2011         The Typhoon Continues and So Do You, Flux Factory, New York
                  Centre for Incidental Activism, AGYU, Toronto
                  Incheon Biennale, Incheon, South Korea
2010        E-Fagia, Kino Pravda 3G, Function 12 Gallery, Toronto
                  Photorama, Gallery TPW, Toronto
                  Test Ground, Durham Art Gallery
                  Sydney College of Art, Sydney, Australia
                  Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne

Full C.V. (pdf)
               
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