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Current Exhibitions:
Folding Gardens and Suspended Healing Garden at Wonders of Creation, traveling exhibitions at San Diego Museum of Art (Sep 2024 – Jan 2025), and McMullen Museum of Art in Boston (Feb – June 2025).
Grow, a group exhibition at Palo Alto Art Center, CA, Sep 2024 – Dec 2024
Allegedly The Worst Is Behind Us, a group exhibition at ICA San Jose, CA, Sep-2024 – Feb 2025
Past Exhibitions:
Continuum, MALI Alumni Art Show, a group exhibition at Mexican Heritage Plaza Art Gallery, San Jose, CA, May 11-May 30, 2024
Saffron, Saint of Spices at Sacred Terrains, a group exhibition at Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA, Jan 2024 – March 2024
Context Lost, a solo exhibition at Rothschild Performing Arts Center, Krishna Murthi Gallery, Harker School, San Jose, CA
Nov 2023-May 2024
Artist Residencies:
A 2024 City of San Jose Creative Ambassador, Jan 15-Dec 15, 2024
A second residency at Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, August 7-19, 2024
Montalvo Art Center’s Lucas Artist Program Residency, Saratoga, CA, Oct 21-Nov 21, 2024
Santa Fe Art Institute Sovereignty Theme Residency, Santa Fe, NM, June 3-29, 2024
Public Art Project:
Womanhood Project, Markmakers, San Jose, CA, April- July 2024
Public Art Collections:
City of San Jose’s Office of Emergency Management/Fire Department Training Center facility, CA, 2024
YouTube, San Bruno, CA, 2023
UCSF, San Francisco, CA, 2024
Auctions:
ICA San Jose (October 2024)
Southern Exposure’s Auction, 2024 Benefit Art Auction (April 13, 2024)
Kala’s art auction benefit & 50th-anniversary party (March 21 – April 27)
Press
“Saint Saffron” and Pantea Karimi’s Artistic Homage to the Queen of Spices I Spring 2024 I Iranian Diaspora Spotlight I Article
by Dr. Persis Karim, Director of the Center For Iranian Diaspora Studies “Saffron is a symbol of the contemporary economic and agricultural challenges that have been convoluted with ongoing political issues under the theocracy in Iran.” California-based...
Of Saints and Spices: Inside Pantea Karimi’s World of Saffron I Fall 2023 I Content Magazine I Solo Exhibition I Article
by Justin Ebrahemi ‘Pantea Karimi's childhood experiences in Iran inspired the artist's holy multimedia exhibition on the saffron crocus and spice. ’ Pantea Karimi’s upbringing in Iran was colored by a world of scriptures and saints. A schoolchild of...
KQED Forum I April 26, 2023 I Hosted by Alexis Madrigal
As part of KQED’s annual Youth Takeover week, Saratoga High sophomore Ryan Heshmati brings together a panel of Iranian women to discuss the viability of the movement in Iran in the face of the regime’s brutal crackdown against protesters and to discuss their own activism in the Bay Area.
Guests:
Ryan Heshmati
Shideh
Persis Karim
Pantea Karimi
KQED, Arts & Culture I Dec 19, 2022
by Justin Ebrahemi ‘The struggle continues’ For many women who grew up in Iran, subservience was inculcated at an early age. “Learning was intertwined with religious indoctrination,” says Pantea Karimi, a San Jose visual artist who left Iran in early...
San Jose ICA I Nov 19, 2022
Breaking the Cube: A Perspective on Women, Life, Freedom by Tachiya Bryant Breaking the Cube: A Perspective on Women, Life, Freedom “All these years being outside Iran, I thought I had escaped the coercive force of compulsion, but the death of Mahsa...
Recipient of the 2022 MASS MoCA Artist Residency
MASS MoCA’s the Studios, North Adams, MA | May-June 2022
Chester Beatty, Art & Education Video Series, Dublin, Ireland, March-August 2022
Deconstructing Architecture in Persian Painting | March 2022
SF Weekly | Sept 28, 2020
Black & White By Jonathan Curiel
Rediscover Visual Arts at These Reopened Galleries
500 Women Scientists | May 8, 2020
STEAM POWER: Art and STEM as a vehicle for change
KQED: California Report | Feb 20, 2020
Interview with Pantea Karimi by Lily Jamali
San Jose Exhibit Honors Forgotten Women in Science
The Mercury News | Jan 19, 2020
Euphrat exhibit honors ‘Women Pathmakers’
The British Library | July 25, 2019
Library astronomy manuscripts in new visual forms
Countdown: Biruni-Galileo-Apollo, British
The Daily Californian | June 2019
At Mercury 20 Gallery, boxes, moons and bits of nature
Content Magazine | June 2019
2019 Silicon Valley Artist Laureates Award.
ISO Magazine, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts | May 2019
Healing Garden, A Virtual Reality Project by Pantea Karimi
SF/ARTS | April 2019
1979 Iranian Upheaval Resonates in “Once at Present”
Galleries at Minnesota Street Project showcase artwork inspired by the political and cultural changes in Iran since the 1979 Revolution
The Daily Californian | Jan 21, 2019
Mercury 20 Gallery’s ‘Self-Portraits in the Age of Selfies’ expands the scope of self-portraiture
The California Printmaker | March 26, 2018
The Journal of The California Society of Printmakers
The New Print: Marriage of Technology and Tradition
Squarecylinder | March 18, 2018
‘Printstallations’ @ San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
The Mercury News | Nov 17, 2017
Euphrat Museum’s fall exhibit explores kindness and hope
SouthCoast Today | Dec 15, 2016
Stateless, group exhibition, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
University Gallery exhibit keeps spotlight on heartbreaking refugee crisis
California State University, Stanislaus | May 10, 2016
The Lux of A Dark Age — Artist Pantea Karimi Discusses Her Punctum Caecum Series
SF Weekly | April 20, 2016
Art: We’re the Center of the Universe!
Cupertino Courier | 2010
Turning Words into Art Earns Local Artist Top Honors