Research
[rewrite] My work process involves investigating documents, manuscripts, and historic objects at major libraries and archives around the world. With findings from these institutions, my work tackles issues of representation and dissemination of the artistic and intellectual heritage of Iran.
University of California San Francisco Library Artist in Residence, 2021
The Marsh’s Library, Dublin, Ireland, 2019
The Bristish Library, Research Residency & Courtauld Institute of Art Conference, 2018
Courtauld Institute of Art Conference, Session on History of Art and History of Science, 2018
The Institute Archives & Special Collections MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2018
The Islamic Document Museum adn Malek Library, Tehran, Iran, 2016
University of California San Francisco Library Artist in Residence, 2021
Brief statement.
The Marsh’s Library, Dublin, Ireland, 2019
The 16th and 17th centuries botanical and astronomy manuscripts, research at the Marsh’s Library, Dublin Ireland in July 2019.
Marsh’s Library, Dublin, Ireland
Manuscript: Cosmographia by Peter Apian, 16th c.
Photos by Pantea Karimi
Marsh’s Library Announcement, June 2020
The British Library, Research Residency & Courtauld Institute of Art Conference, 2018
My residency and conference attendance were supported by the Center for Cultural Innovation Quick Travel Grant in San Francisco and the Euphrat Museum of Art in De Anza College in Cupertino, CA.
masalik al-mamalik “Traditions of Countries” manuscript, maps and islands
10th c, by Estakhri
Photos by Pantea Karimi
Kitāb na‘t al-ḥayawān “On Beastly and their Characteristics” manuscript, 13th c
Images courtesy of The British Library
Galileo, De Mundi Sphera, 17th c
Photos by Pantea Karimi
Avicenna, 11th c., Persian medical scientist, The Canon of Medicine, 19th c. edition
Photos by Pantea Karimi
The British Library, April 2018
Courtauld Institute of Art Conference
Session on History of Art and History of Science, 2018
Brief statement
The Institute Archives & Special Collections
MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2018
Brief statement.
The Microscope by Mary Ward, female scientist, 19th c. Ireland
Sidereus Nuncius by Galileo, 17th C.
The Islamic Document Museum and Malek Library
Tehran, Iran, 2016
Brief statement.
Malek Library, Tehran, Iran, 2016