Golnar Adili

Golnar Adili
گلنار عدیلی
Born1976 (age 49–50)
Falls Church, Virginia, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Virginia (BFA),
University of Michigan (MA)
PartnerLouis Wegner
Children1
Websitewww.golnaradili.com

Golnar Adili (Persian: گلنار عدیلی; born 1976) is an American-born Iranian multidisciplinary visual artist, based in Brooklyn, New York.[1] Much of her work is influenced by growing up in post-Iranian Revolution in Tehran and issues of displacement.

Biography

Golnar Adili was born in 1976, in Falls Church, Virginia, but by 1980 at the age four her family moved back to Iran.[2][3] Her parents were political activists and after their move to Iran, her father was forced to flee back to the United States.[4]

She returned to the United States in 1994 to reunite with her father and pursue her college education.[4] In 1998 she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and in 2006 she received a Master's degree in Architecture from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.[5]

Her partner is Louis Wegner, and they have one daughter.[6]

In 2009, she won a Fellowship in printmaking/drawing/artists books from New York Foundation for the Arts.[7] Adili has been awarded residencies at Women's Studio Workshop (2015), The MacDowell Colony (2007, 2013), the Rockefeller Foundation at the Bellagio Center, and the Lower East Side Printshop (2014), among others.[3][8][9]

Exhibitions

A list of select exhibitions by Adili, in order by year.

Solo and two-person exhibitions

  • 2011 – Forged Patterning: Solo Show, Aun Gallery, Tehran, Iran[10]
  • 2012 – I Wish One Could Measure the Emotions of Others: A Solo Show, Hudson D. Walker Gallery at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • 2014 – Displacement, Craft and Folk Art Museum (now Craft Contemporary), Los Angeles, California; two-person exhibition with Samira Yamin[10][11]
  • 2026 – Dust of Sorrow (Ghobar é Gham), Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland[12]

Group exhibitions

  • 2013 – Art on Paper + 1, Brussels Contemporary Drawing Fair, Galeri Coullaud and Koulinsky, Paris, France[10]
  • 2012 – Beached: An Exhibition of the 2011–2012 Visual Arts Fellows, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts[13]
  • 2014 – Good News From Iran, Pasinger Fabrik-Munich, Munich, Germany[14]
  • 2016 – Language Landscape, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York[15]
  • 2016 – Contemporary Women Artists From Iran, Edward Hopper House Art Center, 82 North Broadway, Nyack, New York; three-person exhibition with Roya Farassat and Shabnam K. Ghazi[16][17]
  • 2023 – Women Making Books, Albert and Shirley Small Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Bio". Uprise Art. Archived from the original on October 21, 2016. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
  2. ^ "Golnar Adili". Smack Mellon. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Summer Exhibition: In and Out of Context". Rhizome. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
  4. ^ a b Hodara, Susan (March 17, 2016). "Three Iranian Women Use Art to Pierce Their Homeland's Veil". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
  5. ^ Ali, Sasha (2014). "Displacements: The Craft Practices of Golnar Adili and Samira Yamin" (PDF). Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM). Archived from the original on October 21, 2016. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
  6. ^ Iqbal, Zainab (November 27, 2017). "Golnar Adili Tells The Immigrant Story of Separation and Anxiety Through Art". Bklyner.
  7. ^ "Directory of Artists' Fellows from 1985–2013" (PDF). New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). Retrieved April 7, 2016.
  8. ^ "Conditions of Longing: Golnar Adili in the Studio – Women's Studio Workshop". Women's Studio Workshop. April 17, 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
  9. ^ "Golnar Adili on Her Life-Changing MacDowell Experience". Vimeo. December 30, 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
  10. ^ a b c "Golnar Adili". Victori Contemporary. Archived from the original on October 6, 2016. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
  11. ^ "Displacement". The Desert Sun. Palm Springs, California. April 4, 2014. p. WE25 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Golnar Adili, Ongoing". The Walters Art Museum.
  13. ^ Wende, Andre Van Der (February 2, 2012). "'Beached: An Exhibition of the 2011-2012 Visual Arts Fellows'". Cape Cod Times.
  14. ^ "'Good News From Iran' – Emerging Iranian Artists at Pasinger Fabrik-Munich". Islamic Arts Magazine. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
  15. ^ "Home". kentlergallery.org.
  16. ^ "Contemporary Women Artists From Iran". The Journal News. White Plains, New York. January 29, 2016. pp. K4 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ Hodara, Susan (March 17, 2016). "Three Iranian Women Use Art to Pierce Their Homeland's Veil". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 17, 2026.
  18. ^ Shuler, Sydney (March 18, 2023). "UVa honors Women's History Month with new exhibit reveal". The Daily Progress. Charlottesville, Virginia. pp. A1 – via Newspapers.com.
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