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)
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)