solo shows
2025
- Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA
2024
- The Fortune Teller, Perrotin, Shanghai, China
2023
- Ali Banisadr: The Changing Past, Victoria Miro Gallery II, London, United Kingdom
- Return to Mother, organized by the Princeton University Art Museum, Mathey College, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
2022
- Return to Mother, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2021
- These Specks of Dust, Kasmin Gallery, New York, New York, USA
- Beautiful Lies, Museo Stefano Bardini and Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy
2020
- Ali Banisadr / Matrix 185, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Ultramarinus-Beyond the Sea, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2019
- Ordered Disorders, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
- Bosch & Banisadr, Ali Banisadr: We work in shadows, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
- Foreign Lands: Ali Banisadr, Het Noordbrabants Museum, ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
- Micro–Macro: Ali Banisadr & Andrew Sendor, MOCA Jacksonville, Florida, USA
2018
- The World Upside Down, BlainSouthern, Berlin, Germany
2017
- Trust in the Future, Sperone Westwater, New York, New York, USA
2015
- In Medias Res, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
- At Once, Blain Southern, London, United Kingdom
2014
- Motherboard, Sperone Westwater, New York, New York, USA
2012
- We Haven’t Landed on Earth Yet, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2011
- It Happened and It Never Did, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, New York, USA
2010
- Evidence, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
- Paintings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2008
- Paintings, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, New York, USA
group shows
2023
- Print Project Space, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
- Au bout de mes rêves (I will follow my dreams to the end), Vanhaerents Art Collection, Lille 3000, The Tripostal, Lille, France
- Shades of Daphne, curated by Stephanie Cristello, Kasmin, New York, New York, USA
- Between before and after, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2022
- 100 Years, Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch, Buick Building, Miami, Florida, USA
- Lindisfarne Gospels, Laing Art Gallery, New Castle, United Kingdom
- Don’t fuck with our human, Fabian Lang Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
- Taxonomies of Imagination, curated by Andrew Sendor, Make Room LA, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Daphne without Apollo. Transformations from Richter to Lassnig from the Klöcker Collection, Opel Villas Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim am Main, Germany
- Soft Edge of the Blade, Frieze No 9 Cork Street with Dastan Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2021
- Epic Iran, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
- Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians, Asia Society, New York, New York, USA
- Le Cinquiéme Printemps, Custot Gallery, Dubai, UAE
- The Sky was Blue the Sea was Blue and the Boy was Blue, Victoria Miro Gallery on Vortic [Online Viewing Room]
- 30 Years in Paris, Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Pantin, France
- A Boundless Drop to a Boundless Ocean, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida, USA
2020
- Artists for New York, Hauser & Wirth, New York, New York, USA
- Libro de Disegni, Galerie Isa, Mumbai, India
- Parley for the Oceans x Vortic, Kasmin Gallery [Online Viewing Room]
- Protean, Kasmin Gallery, New York, New York, USA
- New Editions, Print Project Space, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2019
- We Contain Multitudes, curated by Ali Banisadr, Galerie Isa, Mumbai, India
2018
- Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century, The Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, USA and Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
- Doodles and Disegno, BlainSouthern, Berlin, Germany
- Acquisitions Recentes Du Cabinet D’Art Graphique, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
- NGORO NGORO 2, Lehderstrasse 34, Berlin, Germany
- New on The Wall (N.O.W.), Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2017
- Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA and Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
2016
- Iranian voices: recent acquisitions of works on paper, The British Museum, London, United Kingdom
- My Abstract World, Me Collectors Room/Olbricht Foundation, Berlin, Germany
- A Question of Perspective, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
2015
- Charity for the Refugees, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2014
- Eurasia. A view on Painting, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
- Between Worlds, curated by Jane Neal, Galerie Isa, Mumbai, India
- “Love Me, Love Me Not”, Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbors, Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
2013
- “Love Me / Love Me Not”, Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and Its Neighbors, The 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice Italy
- Expanded Painting, Prague Biennale 6, Prague, Czech Republic
- Cinematic Visions: Painting at the Edge of Reality, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- A Selection of Recent Acquisitions from The Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Safar/Voyage, curated by Fereshteh Daftari, Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Frauen Liebe and Leben, The Klöcker collection at the Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
- Disaster: The End of Days, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
- Tectonic, The Moving Museum, Gate Village DIFC, Dubai, UAE
- Dynasty, curated by Omar-Lopez Chahoud, Hotel Particulier, New York, New York, USA
2012
- Contemporary Iranian art in the Permanent Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
- Peekskill Project V, curated by Livia Straus and Lilly Wei, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, USA
- The Sound of Painting, curated by Margherita Artoni, Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Turin, Italy
- Lucie Fontaine: Estate Vernissage, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York, USA
- Hue and Cry, curated by Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, Sotheby’s (S2 Gallery), New York, New York, USA
- Referencing History, curated by Jane Neal, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2011
- XXSmall, Gerneente Museum, The Hague, Netherlands
- East Ex East, curated by Jane Neal, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
- Visions, Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
2010
- Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK), Ghent, Belgium
- Contemporary Notes, curated by Vahid Sharifian, Assar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- Ghosts, Luce Gallery, Torino, Italy
2009
- Epic Painting (Ali Banisadr, Charles Browning, Robert Colescott, Julie Heffernan, Laurie Hogin, Nicky Nodjoumi), Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisberg, Pennsylvania, USA
- Raad O Bargh, Kunstraum Deutsche Bank, Salzburg, Austria
- Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, The Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- Raad O Bargh – 17 Artists from Iran, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2008
- Weaving The Common Thread, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, USA
- Utopia/Dystopia, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, New York, USA
- Small is Beautiful (2), Flowers Gallery, New York, New York, USA
- Post Graduate Fellows Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, New York, USA
2007
- Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, New York, New York, USA
- Homecoming, New York Academy of Art, New York, New York, USA
- CAA Exhibition, Hunter College/Time Square Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2006
- Tribeca Ball, Skylight, New York, New York, USA
- Summer Painters, Château de Balleroy, Balleroy, France
2005
- In Exile, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, New York, USA
public collections
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria
The Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York, USA
The British Museum, London, UK
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Graphische Sammlung ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Het Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Netherlands
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA
K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Miniature Museum, The Hague, Netherlands
The Olbricht Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, California, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Francois Pinault Foundation, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
The Wurth Collection, Künzelsau, Germany
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
