FARHAD AHRARNIA
Biography
Key Education Dates:
1992-1997
Shefffield Hallam University
City/location where you live and work:
Sheffield, Yorkshire
Prior to his London Debut - a solo show at Leighton House [2008] – his solo shows included ‘Home’ at Bessie Sertees House, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and at the Shipley Art Gallery, Tyne & Wear Museum, Gateshead [2004]. Ahrarnia has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in the UK and internationally, most recently: ‘Balla Drama, We Dream of Language without History’, at Paradise Rowe Art Gallery, London [2009]; ‘Guns and Roses’, at Eleven Howland Art Gallery, London [2009]; ‘Connect’, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford [2008]; ‘ Documenta XII, Germany [2007]; the Sheffield Pavilion at Venice Biennale [2007]; ‘Prelude’ at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford; ‘Palace & Mosque’ at the Islamic Arts Forum, Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Millennium Gallery, Sheffield [2006]; ‘Art Sparkle’ at Leeds City Art Gallery; the touring exhibition ‘Art Textiles 3’ [2004-2005]; ‘Transformation’ at Manchester Museum; the touring exhibition, ‘Art of the Stitch’, at Hall Place, London, the Dutch Textile Museum, The Netherlands and the Williamson Art Gallery, Liverpool [2003-2004]; ‘Home at Last’, at Harewood House Gallery, Leeds [2003]; ‘One Landscape Many Views’, at the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford [2003]; the touring exhibition, ‘Tone’, at Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, Bonnington Art Gallery, Nottingham, and Impressions Gallery, York [2001-2003].