Mehri Honarbin Holliday

Author, academic and artist
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Exhibitions

 
 
2010
 
Janet Rady, Shoreditch, London
 
2007
 
Awarded The Art and Culture Prize by Tehran Municipality
 
Showing new work as well as a selection from The Qashqai Tribe collection at the Saba Centre for Art and Culture.
 
2006
 

Viewing and discussion of three videos: ‘My Feet’, ‘Deconstructing Alien Geography’, and ‘Silent Lips’ at the Cinematech, Oaxaca, Mexico

 
2005
 
Solo show and gallery talk at ‘El Quijote’ museum, Guanajuato, Mexico: Video Installation, three simultaneous large scale projections of ‘My Feet’, ‘Deconstructing Alien Geography’, and ‘Silent Lips’
 
2004
 
Solo Show of ‘The Archaeology of Self’ at The Goods Shed, Canterbury: Installation of Ceramics and Videos, three simultaneous large scale projections
 
Video Installation/performance: The premier of ‘Deconstructing Alien Geography’, The Students’ Union, Canterbury Christ Church University
 
Solo Show, The Iranian Artists Forum Cultural Centre, Tehran, Iran. The premier of ‘The Archaeology of Self’: Ceramic and Video Installation
 
2002
 
Group exhibition, The Mall Gallery, The Mall, London
 
Installation of fired clay and sound, Canterbury Festival
 
 
Conferences

 
2010
 
"Mehri Honarbin-Holliday, a British artist of Iranian Muslim descent who was until recently a senior research Fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University, spoke at the event. She described how she drew on Persian mystical poetry, the landscape and archeological sites of Iran and her own body in work consciously 'responding to the discourse of the Axis of Evil'."
2007  
 
Paper at the conference on Iranian Clay Arts
 
2006
 
Paper at the 6th Biennale in Iranian Studies, SOAS, London
 
Paper at ‘Researching Lives’ Conference at Sussex University
 
Seminar at The Institute of The Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology: 'Bodies, Visibility, and Forms of Resistance and Young Iranian Women', Oaxaca, Mexico
 
2005
 
Seminar at Tehran University, Postgraduate Studies in Visual Arts: ‘The Dialogue Between Theory and Practice in the Studio’
 
 
Paper at ClayWorks, Baltimore, USA
 
Paper at The International Qualitative Conference, Guanajuato University, Mexico
 
2004
 
Seminar at Tehran University Visual Arts Department: ‘British contemporary sculpture: Gormley and Goldsworthy’
 
Paper at the PhD research conference on ‘Other and Otherness’, Canterbury Christ Church University
 
2003
 
Paper at The British Education Research Association Annual Conference BERA 2003, Edinburgh: ‘Comparative imagination and Art Education’
 
2002
 
Paper at the ‘Autobiography and Research’ conference, Canterbury Christ Church University
 
Presentation at The London Kahrizak Charity Group: ‘Modernism in the history of art, and its parallel development in Iran’