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Age: 45

I am...: Conceptual artist, writer.

I have a website: http://www.gitameh.com

Artistic Field or Interest: Installation, Painthings, Sculptures, Photography

Profession: Visual artist/writer/creative non fiction

Artistic and professional experiences: Solo Exhibitions
2009 From Line To Text, Phantom Galleries LA, Los Angeles, CA
My Body Text, Tiled, Textiled, Basement Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2008 27 Years of Migration, Tashkeel Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Soffreh, Meaning Tablecloth, Jam Jar Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Soffreh, Meaning Tablecloth, Basement Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Barbie’s Relocated, Focus Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Migratory Patterns, Hoor Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2007 Metaoracle, paintings, Gallery One, Beyond Persia, San Francisco, CA
Migration Study, Curator, Phantom Galleries LA, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Soffreh, slide installation, IMAN, Los Angeles, CA
Passage, paintings, Seyhoun Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Metamorphosis, paintings, Athens Art Space, Athens, Greece
2005 No Stopping In Searching, paintings, Polytropon Gallery, Kalamata, Greece
How A House Became Home & Home A Temple, paintings, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Soffreh, food installation, Inmo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Soffreh, permanent installation, Watt Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
Soffreh, food installation, Inmo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Chadoor Study, paintings & installations, SheatStudio, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Say Ya Ali Then Exit On Exile, paintings, Khane-ye Honarmandan-e Iran
1996 From Virtual To Reality, installation, Main Gallery, Valencia, CA
Soffreh: Meaning Tablecloth, installation, Gallery D301, Valencia, CA
1995 Removal & Regrowth, open studio, Valencia, CA
1994 Walls Veils & Words, Gallery D2, Valencia, CA
1992 Families In Frames, Gallery D3, Valencia, CA
1991 Wounded Wishes & Wind, paintings, Art Gallery, Den Huge, Nederland’s
1990 I Formed My Arch, paintings, Gallery Shilling, Schorndorf, Germany

Group Exhibition
2009 Herknowlogy, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah Biennial 2009, Sharjah, UAE
Walls, Veils and Voices, Art Dubai, Jam Jar gallery, Dubai, UAE
2008 No Flag, Just Love, Conventions and Attitudes, a projected exhibition, Group Trade and Row, N.Y.
No Flag, Just Love, Conventions and Attitudes, a projected exhibition, Group Trade and Row, LA, CA
Barbie’s Relocated, Slick Art Fair, Paris, France
Alef Ba, Meaning Alphabet, XVA Gallery, Creek Art Fair, Dubai, UAE
Vibrations Withtin, Tashkeel Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Women of My Lands, Jam Jar Gallery, Dubai Art Fair, UAE
Poetics Painted, Contemporary Museum of Art, MOCA Tehran, Eight Biennale of Iranian Painters, Tehran, Iran
Women of My Lands, Be Creative, Dubai Ladies Club, Dubai, UAE
In The Streets of Liberty, Gallery One, San Francisco, CA
2007 Work and Survivor, Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary, Audio installation, Project Susan Lacy, Los Angeles, CA
In the Hanging Garden, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fragments and Colors, Regent Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
From Kabba to N.Y, Red Dot Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Unusual, Seyhoun Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Seven Sins, Pacific Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Apple, paintings & installation, Merging One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003 Trilingual Prayer, video installation, 18th street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA
Soffreh, video installation, Freewaves, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Chadoor, performance art, Cross Roads, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Chadoor, performance, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Overflowing, AlefBa meaning Alphabet, Bergamot Station, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Chadoor, performance, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
Alef Ba, Artists/Writing/Reading Room III, Side Street Project, Los Angeles, CA
2000 In Between Alphabets, paintings, House of Iranian Artists, Tehran, Iran
1997 Semi Skin, video projection, LETIT BE, Film & Video Festival, Los Angeles, CA
1995 Black Novel in Argentina: A Novel by Luisa Valenzuela, Ensemble Theater II, Valencia, CA
1994 Selected Paintings, Soffitel Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Title me not, Women Exhibition, Tehran, Iran
1991 Simorgh, Contemporary Museum of Art, MOCA Tehran, First Biennial of Iranian Painters, Tehran, Iran
1990 Iranian Art Expo, Selected paintings, Tehran, Iran

I like...: to examine how identity is shaped by differences in language, gender, ethnicity and culture, desire, exile, solitude and freedom. I allow each spectator to re-create his or her own experience of my created cross-cultural spaces. My art adds a new substance to multiculturalism, giving advancement to the nearing of cultural differences between East and the West. My work introduces a dialog that critiques the human form, human word and the human home. My art speaks about distributions of cultures. I take the initiative using my cross-cultural resources to achieve a broader form of integration.

Statement: My work creates visual thinking. I understand my initial impulse to form and word. I work on diverse canvases of textural material. Female bodies transfigure from nude to veiled into Alphabeta. Woman’s removed body hair becomes surrounding walls. Onions become an abundance of nourishing breasts. Glitter is brushed as if paint. Scanner becomes my digital camera. Sugar becomes a projection screen as images melt. Hand painted fountain tiles become architectural facades. Persian carpets become my white canvas. Painted laptops convert to flying carpets. Koranic verse becomes running horses. Fresh apples become paintings and hang from the ceiling till they disintegrate in time. I fire clay homes to build my own cities. And food becomes digestible art. As I express my visual vocabulary in a desire to point dot by dot to contemporary Islam and the wild West in this present.
In 1979 the Islamic Revolution marked for me the beginning of a new avant-garde forms of visual expression in Iran. It was in 1983 during Iran Iraq war that my parents had to migrate to the West, where I continued to study and pursuit art. My ongoing body of work deconstructs my Middle Eastern and Western cultures as I reconstruct and reinforce the best of both traditions. My work promotes multiculturalism by using visual and written languages as tools to form a space of human interaction and cultural integration. I draw from my personal history and its implications in modern Middle Eastern society to reconstruct the notion of Islamic/Middle Eastern art through conceptual art.