2026
Artist Commission
Selected as one of five commissioned artists for Fragile Vessels: A Gathering & Exhibition on Extreme Heat at dadaLab in Austin, Texas. The commissioned multimedia work explores extreme heat, climate resilience, and environmental justice through engagement with local scientific, public-health, and labor perspectives.
Journal Publication
Published “Faire dysfonctionner la machine : photocopieuses et esthétique d’une technologie défaillante” in Les Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne, no. 175, Centre Pompidou, April 2026.
2025
Museum Exhibition
Survival is shortlisted for screening and exhibition in The Anthropocene Foundry Los Angeles at the Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, California, January 18–March 1, curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne.
2024
Edited Special Issue Published
Edited Media Archaeology and Art, volume 5, issue 1 of MAST: The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory.
2023
Edited Special Issue Published
Edited The Art of Media Research, volume 4, issue 2 of MAST: The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory.
Film Release
Ageless Wonders is released. A feature documentary that follows older members of Buffalo’s Black community as they participated in Vicente Rondon’s negative photography workshop and reflected on memory, transformation, and a changing city.
2022–2023
International Touring Screening
Survival is included in Peace Letters to Ukraine, an international touring screening program organized by The New Museum of Networked Art and curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne. The program was presented at venues in Germany, Greece, the United States, Turkey, Ecuador, and Spain.
2022
Featured Work
The Price of Oil was featured in the Center for Screen Culture’s Sensing the Archive playlist, presented in connection with issue 19 of Frames Cinema Journal.
Film Release
Completed Survive, Remember, Thrive is released. A short documentary that celebrates Armenian culture, memory, and community life in Western New York.
Film Release
Completed Fight for Good: One Body One Soul is released. A short documentary that explores healthcare disparities, vaccine hesitancy, and equitable care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021
Conference Presentation
Presented “Let Media Archaeology and Feminism Meet: The Animated Work of Stacey Steers” at the Simpósio Internacional de Cinema e Análise Fílmica in November.
Invited Talk
Presented “Moving (Recycled) Images: Feminist Media Archaeology in Artistic Practice” as part of the Visiting Artist & Scholar Talks program in the Department of Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Talk and Workshop Series
Curated and organized Media Archaeology + Feminism, a series of talks and workshops at the University of Colorado Boulder featuring Garnet Hertz, Jussi Parikka, and Maryam Muliaee.
Film Premiere
Fight for Good premiered at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York, on April 22, followed by a public panel discussion.
Television Broadcast
Fight for Good aired on WBBZ-TV in April and May.
Book Chapter
Published “Fai(lure): Encounter with the Unstable Medium in the Work of Art,” co-authored with Mani Mehrvarz, in Miscommunications: Errors, Mistakes, and Media, published by Bloomsbury.
2020
Film Festival
WORK was selected for the 18th Buffalo International Film Festival.
Public Screening
WORK was screened at the Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo, October 23–30.
Program Feature
WORK was featured in the University at Buffalo Arts Collaboratory’s Spring 2020 program.
International Video Art Festival
The Price of Oil was screened at the NOW & AFTER International Video Art Festival at the Contemporary Art Center Winzavod in Moscow.
Film Festival
The Price of Oil was selected for the Mexico City Independent Film Festival.
Online Exhibition
Embodied Landscape, a collaborative multimedia project with Naila Ansari, opened online on May 15.
Award
The Price of Oil won the 4th International Experimental Film Festival The Unforeseen in Belgrade, Serbia.
Award
The Price of Oil received the Jury’s Mention Award at the ninth International Video Art Festival, FIVA, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Commissioned Project
In This House, commissioned by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, was presented as part of Domestic Thresholds at Albright-Knox Northland in Buffalo, New York, beginning January 17.
Special Issue
Co-edited Mapping Media Studies, the inaugural issue of MAST: The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, with Mani Mehrvarz.
2019
Film Festival
The Price of Oil was selected for the 4th International Experimental Film Festival The Unforeseen in Belgrade, Serbia.
World Premiere
The Price of Oil premiered at the ninth International Video Art Festival, FIVA, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 12–13.
Presentation
Presented work at Art in the Open at the Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo, on October 24.
Film Premiere
Live Your Art premiered at the Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo, on September 15.
Program Feature
Live Your Art was featured in the University at Buffalo Arts Collaboratory Film Series.
Exhibition
Media-as-Things, a two-person exhibition, opened at El Museo Gallery in Buffalo, New York, in April.
Exhibition
Make.Media.Matter opened at the University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, on November 1.
Workshop Presentation
Presented at the Substantial Motion Research Network Workshop at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center in Buffalo, New York, in February.
Journal Publication
Published “Crossing a Productive Melancholia in Artistic Work Based on Xerography” in Ekphrasis: Images, Cinema, Theory, Media.
Book Chapter
Published “Media-as-Things: A Nonhistorical Nostalgia through Failure,” co-authored with Mani Mehrvarz, in Subjective Experiences of Interactive Nostalgia.
2018
Film Premiere
Asher premiered at Cinema Village in New York City in July, followed by a public discussion.
Film Festival
Asher was shortlisted for the Buffalo International Film Festival and screened at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center on October 7.
Film Festival
Recycled Tehran screened at the 23rd Zlatý Voči Experimental Film and Video Festival in Prague, Czech Republic.
Film Festival
Recycled Tehran screened at the Flick Experimental Film and Video Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Video Art Screening
Recycled Tehran was presented through the W Video Art Project in Cologne, Germany.
Conference Presentation
Presented at the 26th Annual Crossing the Boundaries Conference, [pl.]: Exploring the Multiple, at Binghamton University, March 16–17.
Exhibition
Make Media Matter, curated by Mani Mehrvarz, was presented at the University at Buffalo Art Gallery.
2017
Film Festival
Recycled Tehran screened at the Super9 Film and Video Festival in Porto, Portugal.
Film Festival
Recycled Tehran was selected for the 4th CIFF Festival and screened at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts in Ithaca, New York, April 14–15.
2016
Exhibition
Granice: Transmission & Transmutation was presented at Centrum Sztuki Galeria EL in Elbląg, Poland.
2015
Traveling Exhibition
Not I / Nie Ja was presented at Dzyga Gallery in Lviv, Ukraine, and BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice, Poland.
2014
Solo Exhibition
History and Memory Revisiting, the artist’s MA thesis exhibition, was presented at AT Gallery in Poznań, Poland.
Exhibition
The Limits of Art was presented at MWBA Contemporary Art Gallery in Leszno, Poland.
Exhibition
Departure–Arrival was presented at Galeria Aula, University of the Arts Poznań.
Exhibition
Minimalism as a Crime Scene was presented at Centrum Kultury Zamek in Poznań, Poland.
2013
Solo Exhibition
Progression was presented at Naprzeciw Gallery in Poznań, Poland.
International Exhibition
The Greatest Show on Earth was presented at BlackBird Studios in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Exhibition
Drawing Territories was presented at Naprzeciw Gallery in Poznań, Poland.
Performance Premiere
The Lutosławski Memorial Project premiered at Centrum Kultury Zamek in Poznań, Poland.
Commissioned Projection
Resurrecting, a commissioned digital video projection created for a multidisciplinary performance inspired by Witold Lutosławski, was screened in Wielka Hall at Centrum Kultury Zamek.
Exhibition
Hotel Insomnia was presented at Hotel Bazar in Poznań, Poland.
Exhibition
Obszary Sztuki was presented at Galeria U Jezuitów in Poznań, Poland.
Exhibition
Brotkatze—Collaborations IV was presented at Galerie Kunststück in Berlin, Germany.
Solo Exhibition
Eternal Return was presented at Rotunda Gallery, University of the Arts Poznań.
Traveling Exhibition
Unexposed was presented at the National Museum of Ethnography in Warsaw, the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens, and Elahe Gallery in Tehran.
2012
International Exhibition
Unexposed, an international exhibition featuring work by 40 Iranian women artists, opened at Tour & Taxis in Brussels, Belgium.
One detail should be confirmed before publishing: your current website lists Fragile Vessels as taking place October 3–4, while the CV lists October 2–5. I used “October 2026” above to avoid publishing conflicting dates.