CV
Maryam Firuzi
www.maryamfiruzi.com
Maryam.firuzi@gmail.com
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Born in 1986, Shiraz (IR)
work and live in Tehran (IR)
Education
2022 Short course, Studio Photography, Speos photography School, Paris (FR)
2016 M.A in Film Studies, Art University, Tehran (IR)
2013 BA in Cinema, Art University, Tehran (IR)
2008 Graduated in Software Engineering, Azad University, Arak (IR)
2004 Master Certification in Persian Calligraphy, Tehran (IR)
Solo Exhibition
2025 “When the earth still had a feminine name”, Hangar Gallery, Brussels (BE)
2023 “À un cheveu près”, Apollonia-art-exchange, Strasburg (FR)
2020 “Gisoo”, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran (IR)
2019 “Before our chance to watch ends”, Silkroad Gallery, Tehran (IR)
2017 “Reading for Tehran streets”, Saless Gallery, Tehran (IR)
Selected Recent Group Exhibition
2025 “Garden”, Bashgah Gallery, Tehran,(IR)
2024 “Based on a True Story” , Hundred Heroioes Museum, Gloucester (UK)
2024 “Un Etrange Ordinaire”, La Grance, cavaillon, (FR)
2024 “A Moment In Infinity” , VHC Gallery, Pune (IN)
2024 “In the shadows of silent women” photo series, Albert Kahn Museum, Paris(FR)
2024 “ KlPA photo award”, Temu house, Kuala Lumpur (MY)
2024 “the power of sisterhood through the lens”, Ellis haute, Vasion-la romaine (FR)
2023 “33 RD Month of photography”, Bratislava (SK)
2023 “9 th Daegu photo Biennale the ongoing power of photography”, Daegu (KR)
2023 “Open your eyes” photo festival, Zurich (CH)
2023 Bienal sur arte, Buenos Aires (AR)
2023 photo festival Baden- La Gacilly, Baden (AT)
2022 19e edition of Festival photo La Gacilly, La Gacilly (FR)
2022 “Vantage point” Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (UAE)
2022 IWPA Winner tour exhibition, WRP foundation in Geneva (CH)
Centro Andaluz de la Fotografia in Almeria (ES)
FCCJ in Tokyo (JP)
instituto Cervantes de Paris (FR)
2021 “world press photo 21 and global peace award exhibition”, Freundeskreis WillyBrandtHaus, Berlin (DE)
2019 “Obiettivo Pace”, Austrian Cultural Forum, Rome (IT)
2019 “Concealment”, at Noisy le Sec // festival du Film Franco Arabe, Paris (FR)
2019 “Concealment”, IWPA tour exhibition, Dubai, Beirut, Amman, Paris, Singapore (MY)
2019 “Focus Iran3″, Art & Folk craft museum, LA (USA)
2019 “shadows”, Millepiani Gallery, Rome (IT)
2015 & 2018 KLMP, White Box, Kuala Lumpur(MY)
2017 “Unfinished Line”, Tirana National Museum (AL)
Award & Achivment(Photography-selected)
2025 Finalist, portrait photography award, Lensculture, Amsterdam (NL)
2024 People Photographer of the Year, IPA (US)
2024 Finalist, The Global Peace photo award, Vienna (AT)
2023 Finalist, Art photography award, Lensculture, Amsterdam (NL)
2022 The Peace Medal, The global photo peace award, Vienna, (AT)
2022 The Laureate of IWPA, (FR)
2019 Gold Medal in Trierenberg Super Circuit, Linz( AT)
2019 Nominated (portrait Professional category) in FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS (FR)
Art Residence
2025 Return to Ithaca, Ithaca (GR)
2024 Les recollets, Paris (FR)
2022 Cite international des arts, Paris (FR)
Art Fair
2024, Delhi Art fair, by VHC Gallery
2023, 2022- 2021 Paris Photo, By Silkroad Gallery
2022 Tbilisi, By IWPA
2020 Tir Art, By Silkroad Gallery, Tehran
Permanent collection
Cnap (Le Centre national des arts plastiques), Paris (FR)
Membership
2019 National Iranian Photographer’s Society, (IR)
2015 Nahal International Student Short Film Festival Academy. (IR)
Curator
2018 “My steps leave no Trace”, Group Photo Exhibition, Maks Gallery, Tehran, (IR)
Filmography
2017 “The provisional Death of Bees”, Experimental film, 27 min, Writer and Director
2013 “The Sheltering Sky”, Experimental Documentary, 15 min, Co-writer and Co-director Mehdi Javaherian,
2012 “The Straw Feast”, Short Documentary, 17min, Co-writer and Co-director Mehdi Javaherian,
2011 “Still at Last”, Short Film, 3 min, Writer and Director
Film Screening (selected)
2018 “The provisional Death of Bees”, Solaris Film Festival, Nice (FR)
2018 “The provisional Death of Bees”, Balkan Can Kino Film Festival, (GR)
2017 “The provisional Death of Bees”, The International University of Paris (FR)
2017 “The provisional Death of Bees”, 15th International Festival Signs of the Night, Bangkok (TH)
2017 “The provisional Death of Bees”, Short on Tap Festival, London, (UK)
2017 “The provisional Death of Bees”, 15th Signes de Nuit International Festival, Paris (FR)
2017 “The provisional Death of Bees”, 15th International Festival Signos de la Noite, Lisbon (PT)
2017 “The provisional Death of Bees”, Smita Patio Documentary and Short Film Festival, (IN)
2016 “The provisional Death of Bees”, 33th Tehran Short Film International Festival (IR)
Publishing
photo book
2025, the monography photo book, ”Before our chance to watch end” by Maryam Firuzi, Snap collective publisher, Paris (FR)
2024, Contemporary photography as collaboration, edited by Mathilde Bertrand & Karine Chamberfort-kay (UK)
2023 Escape Vital: femmes photographes iraniennes, by Anahita Ghabaian, textuel (FR) & Thames & Hudson (UK)
2023 the Book of Dego Binal, (KR)
2023 the book of Open your Eyes photo festival (CH)
2022 the book of la gacilly photo festival (FR)
2021 Cover of book “Iranian literature after Islamic revolution” by Dr Laetitia Nanquette, Edinburg university publication, (AU)
Magazine (selected):
2025 Frames Magazine (CH)
2024 Forti e unite, AnternaIzionale by Arianna Rinaldo, magazine (IT)
2024 Women Behind the Lens, The Guardian (UK)
2024 “IHRE KUNST SCHAFFT HOFFNUNG”, Woman Magazine (AT)
2024 European photography, Number 115, (DE)
2023 Der Greif, Issue by Shirin Neshat, (DE)
2023 “Reden Hinter dem vorhang” by Maria Rennhofer, Parnas (AT)
2023 “IM Kaputten bluht die Kunst” by Bertram Weib, Geo, (DE)
2023 “Maryam Firuzi: Umenie je pre mna oknom nadeje, bez ktoreho by som nedokazala prezit” by Lana rajcarvd, foto noviny, (SK)
2023 “portal in eine andere welt” by Lilia Docekland, Mein Sonntag, (AT)
2023, “Schmers uberwinden” by Bertram Weib, GEO WISSEN, (DE)
2023 Photo art magazine, (KR)
2023 Iran Hair, By Par von Herve Levy, Poly (FR)
2022 Être femme en Iran: plongée dans l’intimité des invisibles écrasées par le poids des tradition by Nadjet Cherigu, Le Faigaro, (FR)
2022 J’ai comprise que les femmes etaient les racines de tout se qui arrive, by Valery Bushet, Madam Figaro, (FR)
2022 Quei Fiori Trale Macerie, By Germano D’acquisto, Vanity (IT)
2021 “reading for Tehran streets”, stranger sounds magazine (USA)
2020 “Reading for Tehran Streets” Shahr magazine, Tehran (IR)
2019 ” Reading for Tehran streets”, Chaeg Magazine, (KR)
2019 “concealment”, Dodho magazine, 07 Issue, (ES)
2019 «Die einzigen Orte, an denen man sich frei fühlen kann», Written by Renate Van Der Zee, Bellevue
2019 “In DE CAFES VOELEN WE ONS VRIJ” by Renate Van Der Zee, flow magazine(NL)
2019 “A Silent Act of Resistance’: the hidden tattoo studios of Tehran”, by Renate Van Der Zee, Guardian (UK)
(Article)
2020 “Staged Photography, the art of reflection”, academic article, Photography Magazine, No5, Tehran (IR)
2017 “Self-Reflexivity and its Functions in Cinema”, academic article, Journal of Dramatic Art and Music(IR)
Lecture & Artist Talk
2024 Artist Talk, Pars University, Tehran (IR)
2022 Artist Talk, Leica Gallery, Vienna (AS)
2018 “Staged Photography”, Photograph Magazine, Tehran, (IR)
2014 “Searching for a Possible Relation between Cinema and Photography”, Art University, Tehran, (IR)