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Born in Soviet Azerbaijan in 1979, where he lived until the age of twelve. Coming to his art late at the age of twenty one from a background in mathematics, he stresses that the focus of his work is not nationality based or influenced by an Iranian persona. Rae demonstrates through his intimate drawings, photographs and videos a profoundly personal view of the world. Often tackling dark subjects such as the weight of history, childhood, the conflict of reality in truth, lies, the quality of the mind, night, questions, answers, one's future experiences waiting to happen and precautions against it, he constantly challenges his audiences to question his work and themselves.Behrouz Rae
Born 1979 in Sumgait, Azerbaijan. Lives and works in Tehran, Iran
Education
2001-2006 B.A degree in Photography, Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Solo exhibitions and projects
2009 XVA Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2008 Spread Memories, AllaprimA Museum (Art Radius), Haukivuori, Finland
2008 UTO (Utopia Trust Oath), East Gippsland Art Gallery, curated by Claire Watson,
Gippsland, Australia
2006 Ave Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Group exhibitions and projects
2009 Words are Diamonds, Galerie Laleh June, Basel, Switzerland
2009 Kunstraum Deutsche Bank, Salzburg, Austria
2009 Thunder and Lightning, Galerie Thadeus Ropac, Paris, France
2009 Osborne Samuel Gallery, London, UK
2008 Sojourn in White, Cowwarr Art Space, Gippsland, Australia
2008 Lion under the rainbow, Art from Tehran, curated by Alex Georgiou, Art Atina, Athens,
Greece
2007 Radical Drawing II, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2006 Radical Drawing I, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Grants, prizes and residencies
2007 PhotoEspania, Madrid, Spain
Bibliography
2009 Mystery Perse, Anaid Demir, BC/BE CONTEMPORARY, No.06, Spring 2009, p.64
2008 Made in Iran, Judith Benamou-Huet, Vogue (Paris), No.889 August, p.107
2008 Behrouz Rae,Ullakon aarteet nayttelyksi, Arja Reinikainen, Lansi-Savo Torstaina 1.5.2008,
p.15
2007 Behrouz Rae, Tirdad Zolghadr, Monopol, No.1/2007, January. p. 91
2007 Kein Sex, keine Politik, keine Religion, Eva Munz and Ingo Niermann, Monopol, No.
4/2007, April, p.46-59
2007 Der Iran hat die Kunstbombe, Eva Munz, Spiegel, 16.04.2007
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