SHIRIN TOWFIQ
shirintowfiq@gmail.com
www.shirintowfiq.com
EDUCATION
2020 Master of Fine Arts - Art Practice
Stanford University, CA
2016 Bachelor of Arts - Art Practice (Departmental Citation)
University of California Berkeley, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Threaded Journeys, Mingei Museum, San Diego, CA
(show name TBD), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2022 Looking For a Sign,1078 gallery, Chico, CA
Looking for a Sign, San Diego City College, San Diego, CA
2017 Soft & Sensitive, The Hill Street Country Club, Oceanside, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 (show name TBD), New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
I Don’t Dream of Labor, CCBC Gallery, Baltimore, VA
2023 Entanglement, Boehm Gallery, San Marcos, CA
The De Young Open, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Now 9, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Pyramid Scheme, Bass & Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Other Side of Time, Round Weather Gallery, Oakland, CA
Anonymously Iran, Culture Lab, Queens, NY (Declined)
2022 Eyes On Iran, Four Freedoms Park, New York, NY
Memory Traces: Artists Transform the Archive, La Jolla Historical Society Wisteria Cottage Museum, La Jolla, CA
2021 Walking, Project 13, virtual exhibition
2020 Once More, With Feeling… (New Wight Biennial), The Broad Art Center at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
UnBound, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
Home/Body, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Invincible California, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Excelsior Public Art, Engine 43 Art Studio, San Francisco, CA
Bone Brain, The Nitery Theater, Stanford, CA (Set Designer)
2019 Murphy & Cadogan, SomArts, San Francisco, CA
4 Waves: 40 Performances for the Hole, SomArts, San Francisco, CA
Once at Present, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Potluck, C3artspace, Melbourne, Australia
Extra Ordinary, Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Reorienting The Imaginaries, SomArts, San Francisco, CA
Easy to Love, Coulter Gallery, Stanford, CA
2018 All Together Now, SFSU Art gallery, San Francisco, CA
Generation, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2017 Subject Sensitive, Urban Outfitters, Space 1520, Hollywood, CA
25 and Under, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
2016 Who Are They? Casa Corval Gallery, Van Nuys, CA
Suprasensory, Pauley Ballroom, UC Berkeley
Thesis Show, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley
36 Artists in 3 Rooms, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley
Pick Your Poison, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley
It Takes an Artist: A Show About Mentorship, Gallery D, Barrio Logan, San Diego, CA
2015 Grizzly Bay Film and Arts Festival, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
When Things Fall Apart, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley
Real Talk, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley
Skinterior Just Beige, Headquarters Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Junction, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley
Architecture of Time Screening, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Take It or Leave It, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
2024 Art Worlds, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2023 No More Boring Art Talks, Boehm Gallery, San Marcos, CA
Haptics and the Fugitive image, ASAP/14: Arts of Fugitivity, Seattle, WA
Arts + Justice research workshop series for Stanford Humanities Center, CA
2022 Looking For a Sign, Hopper visiting lecturer at Chico State University, CA
Looking For a Sign, World Cultures program at San Diego City College, CA
2021 Sculptural Photography, The Alternative Art School
Connecting Threads: Golnar Adili in Conversation with Shirin Towfiq, Cantor Museum, Stanford, CA
2020 Shelter In Studio: Artist At Work, UC Berkeley, CA
Performing Diaspora & Tracing Embodied Archives, Stanford University, CA
2019 Artist Books, Palimpsest, and Memory, Stanford University, CA
Resist Stitch, SomArts, San Francisco, CA
2018 Resist Stitch, SFSU Gallery, San Francisco, CA
About: Face - A Community Quilt, Hearst Anthropology Museum, Berkeley, CA
2017 Resist Stitch, Space 1520, Urban Outfitters, Los Angeles, CA
Resist Stitch, San Diego Art Institute, CA
2016-18 SoSewCo, Oceanside, CA
2014 How To Persian Taarof, UC Berkeley, CA
RESIDENCIES
2022 Peter Bullough Foundation, Winchester, VA
AWARDS
2024 Rydell Fellowship, the Community Foundation Santa Cruz County
ARI Fellowship, Strategic Planning Partners
2019-20 The Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award, San Francisco Foundation
2019 Pauline Brown Fund for Advanced Research in American Art, Stanford University
2018-20 The Ellie and John Stern Fellowship in Studio Art, Stanford University
Robert Mondavi Fellowship, Stanford University
2017 Curator’s Choice, 25 and Under, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
2016 Departmental Citation, University of California Berkeley
Eisner Honorable Mention, UC Berkeley
Honors Studio, UC Berkeley
SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE
2021-23 Instructor, Stanford Continuing Education, Stanford University
Alternative Photography, Artist Bookmaking
2021 Lecturer, Department of Art & Design, San Diego State University
Intro Digital Photography, Photo History: Past & Present
Teaching Assistant, The Alternative Art School
Video Art
2020-21 Teaching Artist, The AjA Project
2020 Teaching Assistant, Department of Art, San Diego City College
Advanced Digital Solutions, Beginning Digital Photography
2019-20 Digital Print Lab Technician, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
Advanced Undergraduate Seminar, Ecology of Materials
2018-19 Graduate Instructor, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
Fiber and Wearable Art
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
Drawing with Code, Medium Format Photography, Book Art Object, Cell Phone Photography
2016-18 Creative Design Specialist, Promptlink Communications
2014 Exhibition Assistant, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley
Instructor, AJA Project, Barrio Logan
Teaching Assistant, Department of Art, MiraCosta College
Beginning Darkroom Photography, Alternative Photography