Delbar Shahbaz
General Info.
2017 MFA Degree at Art Center College Of Design , Pasadena, Los Angeles
2008 MA Degree: Illustration at Tehran Art University
2005 BA Degree: Bio Medical Engineering , Shahid Beheshti Medical University,Tehran, Iran
Born Tehran, Iran
Living in Tehran and
Los Angeles
Solo Exhibitions
2023 “Land is Feeling, Color is Remedy” , Advocartsy, Los Angeles
2017 “Kamikaze Show”, PØST Gallery, Los Angeles
2017 “Carnival Passengers”, Main Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles
2015 Installation exhibition in The Wassaic Project artist residency
(Non-Residential), Wassaic, New York, United States.
2014 installation exhibition in ACCD gallery (Terrain of Absence) ,
Los Angeles, United States.
2012 Sculpture exhibition in Seyhoun Gallery (When me and my dreams vanished). Tehran, Iran.
2012 Photo exhibition in Dastan Basement. Tehran, Iran.
2010 Sculpture exhibition in Golestan Gallery (Little Simple Things)
Tehran, Iran.
2010 Sculpture exhibition in Fravahr Gallery
(Déjà-vu in a winter night).Tehran, Iran.
2009 Painting exhibition in Dey Art Gallery. Tehran, Iran.
2009 Sculpture exhibition in Golestan gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2009 Painting and sculpture exhibition in Henna Art Gallery. Tehran, Iran.
2008 Painting exhibition in Tehran Lale Gallery. Tehran, Iran.
Group Exhibitions
2024” Faculty Group Show”, College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita
2024” Position Berlin Art Fair”, Berlin, Germany
2022 “When I Consider Everything That Grows”, Quorum Quorum, San Pedro, Los Angeles
2019 “And I was feeling alive”, Meridian Exhibitions, Los Angeles 2018 Past Forward, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
2018 Vibrant Matter, Beacon Arts Building, Los Angeles
2018 Something Happened, Basement Projects, Santa Ana
2017 performing at Phyllis Green’s piece, Chimento Contemporary, Los Angeles
2017 “AS.SEM.BLR: A PERFORMATIVE READING”, The New Museum, Los Angeles
2016 Untitled Without Borders, CLU Gallery, Los Angeles
2016 Shift and Fade, Blam Los Angeles
2016 Green circle, Otis College of art and design, Los Angeles
2016 "Always a body", University of Santa Barbara, CA, United States
2015 group show, Gallery CLU, Los Angeles, United States
2015 Mr. President, Tarrahan Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2015 Poster Exhibition in Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, United States.
2014 Two Hours of Video-Art from Iran” 43th Edition of The Festival Du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, Canada.
2013 Photo expo group exhibition in Iranian House Of Artists. Tehran, Iran.
2013 International video festival in Aaran Gallery. Tehran, Iran (Curated by Amirali Ghasemi).
2011 Exhibition (Title: Doll) in Shirin Gallery Video Art(Unico). Tehran, Iran.
2011 Selected exhibition in Cultural forum of Austrian Embassy. Tehran, Iran.
2010 Exhibition (Title: Tehran) in Aaran Gallery. Tehran, Iran.
2009 Masques of Shahrzad-Three Generations of Iranian Women Artists London ,England.
2007 Participating in Buca Education Faculty 2nd International Visual Arts - Izmir, Turkey.
Residency
Headlands center for the arts, Bay Area, Marine 2025
Makaan Residency, San Francisco 2025
High Desert Test Site, Joshua Tree 2025
The Wassaic Project Artist Residency, New York 2015
Awards
Public Speaking
2025 CERF+ emergency grant Brattleboro, Vermont
2025 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York City
2020 Faculty Grant Project, Art Center College of Design
2014 MFA Scholarship Awards, Art Center College of Design, Los Angele
2007 First Prize, “Contemporary painters influenced by Persian painting “,Tehran
2007 First Prize, “The Iranian Women’s workshop”, Tehran
2024 Delbar Shahbaz artist talk at Extension program, UCLA, Los Angeles
2022 Delbar Shahbaz, Woman, Art and Iran, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale
Selected Bibliography
2025 https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2025/01/13/artists-la-through-wildfires
2025 https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2025/01/22/a-altadena-au-nord-est-de-los-angeles-un-reve-reduit-en-cendres_6509380_4500055.html
2023 https://www.laweekly.com/meet-colors-of-freedom-artist-delbar-shahbaz/ / LA Weekly
interview 2022. https://www.curate.la/event.php?id=24953 / Speech at the Brand Library,
Glendale, Los Angeles
2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoSk6f0zwBM Sohrab Sepehri, Sedaye Paye
Aab#, Persian poets 2019 http://voyagela.com/interview/art-life-delbar-shahbaz/
VoyageLAOnlineMagazine
2017 http://www.artcenter.edu/connect/dot-magazine/articles/seeking-solace-travel-ban-
impact-on- artcenter- students.html DOT Magazine, Art Center College of Design
2009 www.payvand.com/news/09/dec/1056.html Payvand Online Magazine
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023- Now Adjunct Faculty, Chaffey College, CA
2022- Now Adjunct Faculty, College of the Canyons, CA
2020 American University of Health and Science
2019 Mt Sierra College, Monrovia, CA
2016- Now Adjunct Faculty, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA