Jinoos Taghizadeh

Jinoos Taghizadeh (b. 1971, Tehran, Iran) is one of the most influential Iranian multidisciplinary artists, activists, writers and editors of her generation. Involved in the contemporary art scene for almost thirty years, she began her career in 1984 and quickly established herself as a major figure in Iranian conceptual and engaged art. With a degree in sculpture from Tehran University (2000) and a diploma in dramatic literature from the Niavaran Cultural Center, she has developed a protean artistic practice that spans sculpture, painting, video, performance, installation and printmaking. Her works boldly address political, social and environmental issues, while highlighting the condition of women and the silent zones of contemporary Iranian history. Her work has been shown in many prestigious institutions and international exhibitions, including the Chelsea Museum (New York), the MAXXI Museum (Rome), the Whitechapel Gallery (London), and the Kunsthalle Wiesbaden (Germany), where she enjoyed a major solo exhibition in 2016. In Iran, she took part in the first exhibition of conceptual art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Teheran in 2000. Her most notable solo exhibitions include Letters I Never Wrote (Stiftelsen 3,14 Gallery, Bergen, 2017), Open Wiring (O Gallery, Tehran, 2015) and Hinterland Gallery (Vienna, 2019). Her work has also been featured in numerous collective projects such as Iran Inside Out (Chelsea Art Museum, 2009) and several Tehran Sculpture Biennials. The recipient of prestigious international residencies, including the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin (2017), the Villa Empain - Fondation Boghossian (Brussels, 2018) and the Banff Centre (Canada, 2023), she embodies a singular and courageous voice, at the crossroads of art, memory and resistance. In 2018, an educational salon at Bergen's Faculty of Fine Arts was named "Jinoos Room" in her honor, enshrining her lasting influence on the international art scene.