Born in 1981 in Karaj, Iran.
Lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany.
Depicting brightly colored playground slides, toys, and ladders housed within illuminated box-like chambers, Ghadyanloo's paintings in oil and acrylic on canvas are composed with meticulous attention to geometry, color, and chiaroscuro. Perspectival illusions create the effect of three-dimensional spaces lit from above by circular skylights. These playground structures, which have become the artist's signature motif, function as monuments to psychological states as much as physical constructions. Devoid of figures, the enigmatic spaces evoke childhood nostalgia while channeling existential themes. Echoing the paradoxical spaces of Giorgio de Chirico and the quiet intensity of Giorgio Morandi, Ghadyanloo also draws on the traditions of Iranian painting, architecture, and poetry, using precise geometry and illumination to shift everyday forms into spaces that feel at once familiar and unresolved.
education
2007
-MA Animation, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran
2004
-BA Painting, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
solo shows
2024
-Monuments of Hope, Almine Rech, Paris, France
-The Stolen Memories, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
2023
-The Untold Stories, Almine Rech, London, UK
2022
-Mehdi Ghandyanloo, Gagosian, New York, USA
-Mehdi Ghadyanloo, Gagosian, Hong Kong, China
2021
-Daydreams and Nightmares, Gagosian, New York, USA
-To You From The Sun, Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
2020
-Mehdi Ghadyanloo, Almine Rech, Paris, France
2019
-Portals of Light, Galleri Golsa, Oslo, Norway
2017
-Remembering the Oblivion, Rod Bianco, Oslo, Norway
-Spaces of Hope, Howard Griffin Gallery, London, UK
2015
-Perception, Howard Griffin Gallery, London, UK
2014
-Mirage of Redemption, Gallery GEO, Bergen, Norway
group shows
2024
-50—90: The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum', Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China
-Toy Story, CICA Vancouver, WA, Canada
2023
-A Leisurely Stroll - The Tenth Anniversary of The Long Museum, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China
-X PINK 101, X Museum, Beijing, China
2021
-Seemingly Playful, Yavuz Gallery, Sydney, Australia
-Daydreams and Nightmares, Gagosian, New York, USA
2020
-The Future, Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Online
public collections
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway
X Museum, Beijing, China
Xiao Foundation, Shanghai, China
National art Museum of China, Beijing , China
CICA, Center of international contemporary art, Vancouver, Canada
W Art Foundation, Hong Kong, China
Public Art Projects
2019
-Finding Hope, Davos, Switzerland
2018
-The Fraud and Hope, Linz, Austria
2016
-Spaces Of Hope, Mural, Public commission for the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, Dewey Square Park, Boston, USA
-Orange Destiny, Commission of the Institute for the Humanities at University Of Michigan Thayer Building, Michigan, USA
2015
-We didn’t start the game, Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, London, UK
-Cycle of Life, Commission for Cross rail in Newham, London, UK
-A Castle and its Proprietors, Dulwich Museum, Dulwich, London, UK
2004 - 2011
-Municipality of Tehran’s Beautification Bureau, Tehran, Iran