CV

Education:

2017-2018 MA Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University.

2014-2017 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University.

2013-2014 Foundation Diploma in Art and design, Trafford College

Selected commissions:

2021 Performance commissioned by PROFORMA as part of the Loiter program, Manchester, UK

Selected residency:

21/10/2022-31/10/2022 KULTURFÖRENINGEN, SVENSHÖGEN STATION, Sweden.

02/11/2022- 29/11/2022 Residency exchange at SODAS2123 Vilnius, Lithuania.

 May 2022- Sep 2022 Venture Art, ‘Conversations Series III’, collaborative residency project

2019 PROFORMA Pavilion, Corte Super Nova, Venice, Italy

Programmes :

May 2022- Sep 2022 Creative Lives collaboration between artists, academics and other stakeholders, University of Sheffield

SUSTAIN: Artist Digital Exchange, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester & Aarhus Billedkunstcenter, DK, Oct 2021 – Mar 2022

Solo exhibitions:

2023-24 Omid Asadi, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK

2022 Last Drop of Oil, SVENSHÖGEN STATION, Sweden

2020-2021   Autopsy Of A Home, Solo exhibition commissioned by CFCCA, Manchester,UK

Selected group exhibitions:

2022 Manchester Contemporary, represented by Venture Art, Manchester Central. UK

2022 Intersections, Paradise Works, Manchester, UK

2022 Proforma Pavilion, Pase Platform, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.

2019 Agent Of Change, John Ruskin Art Prize at Holden Gallery, Manchester,UK

2019 PROFORMA Pavilion, at Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2019 Sources, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK 

2019 State of the Arts, Selfridges (Manchester Exchange Square), UK 

2018 The Ground Beneath Your Feet, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK

2018 Winter Collection, Saul Hey Gallery, Manchester, UK

2018 The Manchester Contemporary Art Fair 2018, represented by Asia Triennial, Manchester, UK

2018 Warrington Contemporary Art Festival, WARRINGTON MUSEUM & ART GALLERY, Warrington, UK.

2018 PROFORMA Contemporary Art Festival, The Dancehouse Theatre , Manchester. UK

2018 Emergence, Air Gallery, Altrincham, UK

2018 Greater Manchester Art Prize Exhibition, Stockport Art Gallery, Stockport, UK

2018 Contested Territories/Altered States, Plant NOMA, Manchester, UK

2017     The Manchester Contemporary, represented by Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, Uk

2017 The Manchester Art Fair, represented by Abode Gallery,Manchester, UK.

2017 In Visible Lines, Scaffold Gallery, Manchester, UK.

2017 Air Open, Air Gallery, Altrincham, UK.

Selected Bibliography and Publication:

Vanessa Peterson, Dispatch from Manchester: Can the City Move Beyond Its Storied Past? , FRIEZE, Oct 2023. https://www.frieze.com/article/manchester-factory-international-postcard-2023

Natalie Bradbury, Loiter, Art Monthly, March 2021

Natalie Bradbury, Loiter, Corridor 8, Feb 2021

Bob Dickinson, The Ground Beneath Your Feet, Art Monthly, Feb 2019

Holly Pollard, Art Preview, Now Then Magazine, Dec 2018. http://nowthenmagazine.com/manchester/issue-61/art-review/

Public Collection:

Siam Discovery shopping mall, Bangkok, Thailand.

Awards:

2021 Longlisted for UK New Artist Of The Year Award

2021 Cultural Fund for Freelancers- Grant award

2020 Art Council of England Emergency Response Funding 

2019 John Ruskin (Shortlisted)

2018 Great Manchester Arts Prize runner Up

2017 Leonard little Prize

2017 Castlefield Gallery Mentorship Award 

2017 The Air Open Award