Roya Ebtehaj Interdisciplinary artist and educator based in the SF Bay Area, CA. | San Jose, CA, 95120 |
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
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AWARDS
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Solo & *Two-Person Exhibition
2022 Luna Park, Dowd Gallery, Santa Clara, CA. |
2021 PressInt Continuous, Berkeley Art Center (Commissioned), Berkeley, CA. |
2020 *Rootlessness, Ctrl+Shift Gallery, CA. (Canceled). *Genesis, Chamber Music Festival Silicon Valley, Mexican Heritage Plaza, CA. |
2019 Plastic Makes Perfect, MFA Thesis exhibition, Black Gallery, SJSU, CA. |
2018 Green Hope, Black Gallery, SJSU, CA. 5 Minus 1, Gallery 8, SJSU, CA. *How Close is too Close, Two-Person Collaboration, Maker Faire, CA. |
2017 *Play with Sky, Two-Person Collaboration, Maker Faire, CA. |
2008 Pink Lady, Photo Exhibition, Jahan Nama Gallery, Tehran, IR. |
2022 Stories in Motion, Dane Ledet Gallery, Thibodaux, LA. |
2021 Blended part two, Usak Areology Museum, Usak, Turkey. Drawn Together, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus. Local Love Festival part two, Bloc15, Oakland, CA. Local Love Festival, Terra Gallery, SF, CA. Blended, Kyoto Shibori Museum, Kyoto, Japan. Relics, Roswell Visual Art Center, Roswell, GA. OverLap: Home, Immigration, and Identity, Bayfair Center, San Leandro, CA. Emotional Numbness, Platform3, Tehran, IR. |
2020 Over and Under, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA. Reflections on Home, Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Oakland, CA. Reflections on Exile, Root Division, San Francisco, CA. |
2019 Scintilla Art Box Project, Hastings College, Hastings, NE. Chamber Music Festival Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA. SJSU MFA Thesis Exhibition, Root Division, San Francisco, CA. |
2018 1088 Days, Social Policy Cafe, San Jose, CA. Softwar[e], Babelab Gallery, Oakland, CA. 3 Concerns and 23 Cracks, Black Gallery, SJSU, San Jose, CA. Bruce Nauman Time Tunnel, Belcher Gallery, SJSU, San Jose, CA. |
2017 Faken’et, Gallery 8, SJSU, San Jose, CA. Summer Arts Showcase, Phebe Conley Gallery, Fresno, CA. |
2007 Red Tuesdays, Painting Exhibition, Mother Gallery, Tehran, IR. |
2022 ‘Big Muddy Film Festival,’ 2022 BMFF Jurors, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. http://www.bigmuddyfilmfestival.com/2022-bmff-jurors/ |
2021 ‘Local Love Festival,’ Exhibition Catalog, Oakland, CA. https://locallove.io/festival/Oakland2021/ ‘Local Artists Featured in Exhibit at BayFair Mall,’ San Leandro Times Newspaper, San Leandro, CA. |
2020 ‘Plastystopia,’ Digital America journal issue #15, VA. https://www.digitalamerica.org/plastystopia-roya-ebtehaj/ Interview with Joel Slayton, Life/Art/Science/Technology (L.A.S.T.) magazine issue #4, CA. ‘6 Women Immigrant Artists Reflect on Belonging and Home’ by MeiMei Fox, Forbes magazine, |
2019 ‘Digital Dystopia,’ by Roya Ebtehaj. Leonardo ABstracts Service (LABS), CA. https://collections.pomona.edu/labs/record/?pdb=3983
MFA Thesis Exhibition Catalog by Alexander Werdmuller, SJSU Publication, CA. ‘Roya Ebtehaj: October Scintilla Art Box Project Featured Artist,’ Fizz Digital, Hastings, NE. https://fizz.hastings.edu/blog/roya-ebtehaj ‘Stories from the IA Community,’ Iranian Americans’ Contributions Project, CA. |
2018 ‘Softwar[e] Manifesto’ by Bruce Sterling, Wired Magazine. (co-authored) https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2018/05/the-software-manifesto/ ‘Time Tunnel’ Catalog, Bruce Nauman Corridor, SJSU Publication, CA. |
2022 Empower through Mixed Reality, Discussion Panel, BEA Conference, Las Vegas, NV. Big Muddy Film Festival, Juror and Artist Talk, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. DRAM 3825 – Media Design Studio, Visiting Speaker, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. |
2021 Dis/ruption (On Cultural Memory, Migration, and the Iranian Diaspora), Artist Talk, Santa Clara University, San Jose, CA. Breaking Into NFTs: A Guide for Artists, Artist Talk, ARTogether, Oakland, CA. The Option to, Discussion Panel and Artist Talk, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA. |
2020 Fly to Tehran, Discussion Panel and Artist Talk, Santa Clara University, CA. Empyre- soft-skinned space, Discussion Panel, Cornell University, NY. The eleventh annual NMC Showcase, Artist Talk, Chicago, IL. Stories of Mutual Distress, Artist Talk, Zanan Group in Norcal, CA. |
2019 ART74, Guest lecturer, SJSU, San Jose, CA. ART198, Visiting Artist, SJSU, San Jose, CA. |
2018 Advancement to graduate candidacy, Artist Talk, MLK Library, San Jose, CA. |
2020 - 2021 Professional Development Grant, Santa Clara University, San Jose, CA. Grant received to support academic research. Center for the Arts & Humanities (CAH) Faculty Fellowship, Santa Clara University, San Jose, CA. Grant received to perform research on the oral history of the Iran-Iraq war. |
2019 Professional Development Grant, Santa Clara University, San Jose, CA. Grant received to support startup academic research. |
2018 SJSU Art Scholarship, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA. Scholarship awarded for research to create final MFA degree exhibition. |
2017 Bertha Kalm Scholarship, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA. Scholarship awarded for excellence in academic achievements. CSU Summer Arts, California State University, Fresno, CA. Summer scholarship awarded for academic research and attending courses in Digital Art and Design. |
2016 Roshan Cultural Heritage Fellowship, San Jose, CA. Fellowship awarded for research on the Iranian Diaspora. |