Naveed Nour

Naveed Nour
Naveed Nour in 2008

Naveed Nour was born in Germany to Iranian parents in 1963. He is a contemporary artist who uses photography as the basis of his work. He currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. In the early 1980s Nour documented the Iran-Iraq war while focusing on the social effects of war on society. His work of this period became the core of his "History Recalls" project.^[1] While most of his work is based on traditional street photography until 2006 as seen in his Momento series, which was mostly in black and white, he later changed to color photography and started to focus on conceptual themes such as in his Movements in Adagio series. His latest work is called 12 Panels of Life in Gozo and evolves around the seemingly culture of conflict in Victoria, the capital of Gozo in Malta. This project, which is a collaboration between Nour and Norbert Francis Attard has been juried by Transcultural Exchange, to be shown in April 2009 as part of a simultaneous global exhibit, titled Here, There and Everywhere: Anticipating the Art of the Future. The purpose of the proposed project is to encourage artists to work with others in different parts of the world to create collaborative artworks. The aim is to explore, foster and document the resulting cross-fertilization, multi-disciplinary, "out-of-the-box" thinking in order to encourage more of the same in both artistic and non-artistic disciplines.

History

• 1963 Born in Cologne, Germany
• 1970 Moved to Iran
• 1982 Entered University of Tehran's photography program at the faculty of fine art (Daneshkadeyeh Honarhayeh Ziba)
• 1986-1987 Lived in Turkey and worked for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• 1991 Graduated from the University of Ottawa, BFA in Photography
• 1991 – Present Works in photography and multimedia, while exhibiting his work internationally
• 2003 Graduated from Cambridge College, Master of Management in e-Commerce
• 2007 Starts "History Recalls", a forum for artists whose work reflects their experience of war and oppression
• 2007 Co-founds PhotoEmerge with Zohreh Firouzabadian to help emerging photographers
• 2007 Awarded an artist residency by TransCultural Exchange and Gozo Contemporary in Malta
• 2008 Starts teaching at Massachusetts College of Art and Design
• 2008 Starts teaching at SMFA (School of Museum of Fine Arts - Boston)

Exhibits

• "The Children of Calypso", Armenian Library and Museum of America, Watertown MA, joint exhibit with Norbert Francis Attard, April 2–19, 2009
• "Art Dubai", Dubai, March 2009
• "Momento", New England School of Photography, 2009
• "ArtParis", Abu Dhabi, 2008
• "Routes", Waterhouse & Dodd, London 2008
• "Uprooted ", Brant Gallery at Massachusetts College of Art and Design - Curated by Khalid Kodi, Group Exhibit, April 12–24, 2008
• "Shiver ", Co/So, [Boston] MA, Group Exhibit, January 11 – February 23, 2007
• "Illuminations - Retrospective ", Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, USA, Group Exhibit October 15, 2007 – January 10, 2008
• "Holiday Small Works ", Co/So, Boston MA, Group Exhibit, November 16 – December 22, 2007
• "Equinox ", Co/So, Boston MA, Group Exhibit (Juried by Howard Yezerski, Helen Molesworth and Ellen Miller) October 18 – November 10, 2007
• "From Boston to Stockholm on the T ", Watertown Public Library, Watertown, Massachusetts, Solo Exhibit October 1–30, 2007
• "The Copley Edge ", St.Botolph Club, Boston MA, Juried Group Exhibit (Curated by [Julian Cherubini]; Juried by [Camilo Alvarez]) June – September 15, 2007
• "Movements in Adagio", Armenian Library and Museum of America, Watertown MA, Solo Exhibit, May 13 – June 17, 2007
• "Momento", Brookline Art Center, Brookline MA, USA, Solo Exhibit February 1 – March 16, 2007
• "History recalls, and nothing has changed" , Northeastern University, Boston, USA, Solo Exhibit January 6–27, 2007
• “Movements in Adagio ”, Hampstead Museum, London, England, Solo Exhibit October 18–29, 2006
• "ArtCetera 2006 ", Boston Center for the Arts / Cyclorama, AIDS Action Committee of Mass. October 12–14, 2006
• "Illuminations", Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, USA, Group Exhibit October 1, 2006 – January 31, 2007
• "ART NU", Northeastern University, Boston, MA (USA), Group Exhibit August 28 – September 28, 2006
• "Illumination in Two Movements ”; Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA), Watertown MA, USA, Solo Exhibit, April 2 – May 7, 2006
• November 3–23, 2005 Group Exhibit “Avenue of the Arts”, Boston Public Library (West End Branch) Boston, MA
• August 29 – September 29, 2005 Group Exhibit “ART NU 2005”: Images of Iran, Northeastern University Boston, MA
• Behind The Windows - 1998 Solo Exhibit, Wellesley Hills Massachusetts/ USA
• National Arts Council - 1991 Group Show, Ottawa Canada
• Student Center - 1990 Solo Exhibit, University of Ottawa/ Canada
• Gallery 101 - 1989 Solo Exhibit, University of Ottawa/ Canada
• French Cultural Institute - 1986 Solo Exhibit, Ankara/Turkey
• Goethe Institute - 1986 Solo Exhibit, Ankara/Turkey
• University of Tehran - 1985 Solo Exhibit, Tehran/Iran

Catalogue(s)

• ArtCetera 2006^[2]
• Waterhouse & Dodd "Routes" - London 2008
• ArtCetera 2008

References

1. ^ "The Art of War". nu-news.com.com. http://media.www.nu-news.com/media/storage/paper600/news/2007/01/10/TheInside/The-Art.Of.War-2616497.shtml. Retrieved 17 October 2007. 
2. ^ aac.org

External links

• Iranian.com, September 28, 2006 – “Lightly Dark” by Ali Hosseini
• The Huntington News, January 10, 2007 – “The Art of War” by Julie Balise
• Boston Globe, July 5, 2007 – “Rediscovering the Viewfinder” by Denise Taylor
• Boston Globe,October 23, 2007 – “Soul Train” by Luke O’Neil(article expired online)
• Iranian.com, May 25, 2007 – “Story of a Life” by Michel Lumière
• Griffin Museum of Photography
• Naveed Nour's website
• PhotoEmerge

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