Education
2009 Masters of Fine Arts: Printmaking and Painting, with honors, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 2004 BTEC National Diploma in Art and Design: Printmaking, Painting and Glass, with distinction Hastings College of Arts and Technology, Hastings, UK 1999 Masters of Design: Graphic Design, Art University,Tehran, Iran 1996 Bachelor of Design: Graphic Design, Al-Zahra University,Tehran, Iran
Public Collection 2018 Kaiser Permanente, San Jose & Campbell, CA 2018 Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
2017 Ruth Asawa Foundation,San Francisco, CA 2017 Stanford Health Care, Redwood City, CA
Residency 2018 The Rotch Library of Architecture & Planning and Institute Archives & Special Collections at MIT,
Cambridge, MA (19th c. Scientific Manuscripts)
2018 The British Library, London, UK (Medieval Scientific Manuscripts)
2017 Kala Fellowship-Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 2016 The Malek Library, Tehran, Iran (Medieval Scientific Manuscripts) 2013 Teaching Artist Residency, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
Solo Exhibition
2020 The Forgotten Women of Science, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA (Jan-March, 2020)
2018 Visual Thinking: Six Ways of Picturing Knowledge, The Rotch Library at MIT, Cambridge, MA (Sep-Dec, 2018) 2017 Blind Spot, a dialogue, Ruth’s Table (Ruth Asawa Foundation Center),San Francisco, CA 2016 Punctum Caecum, a visual exploration into the magical world of medieval and early modern scientific manuscripts, California State University Stanislaus,Turlock, CA 2015Mediated Senses, Google, Building CL5, Mountain View, CA 2014 Mediated Senses, Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, CA 2010Mediated Senses, Mohr Gallery, Finn Center, Mountain View, CA
Two-Person Exhibition 2014UNNATURAL SELECTION, Mohr Gallery, Finn Center, Mountain View, CA 2013 Disappearance, Art Ark, San Jose, CA 2012Monotype & Silkscreen, commercial building via Bay VanGallery, Oakland, CA 1998Forms and Shadows, Xorshid Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Traveling Exhibition 2017 Vision and Voice: Reflections of Immigrant Artists in California, San Jose & Oakland, CA Art Ark Gallery & Chandra Cerrito Contemporary 2015Living with Endangered Languages in the Information Age, Root Division, San Francisco, CA Endangered, Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA 2012Mexico-California, A Bridge Beyond Borders: Innovations in Contemporary Printmaking Galeria Ajolote Arte Contemporaneo, Guadalajara, Mexico Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
Selected Group Exhibition 2018 20/20, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA
#TimesUp#Metoo#Wesiadenough, JAYJAY Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA PRINTSTALLATIONS, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art,San Jose, CA Coming With Care,Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA Trilogy, The 5th L.A.S.T Festival, Stanford Linear Accelerator, Menlo Park, CA Consilience of Art & Science, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
Group Exhibition, Jeff King & Co. Design Company, San Francisco, CA
Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2017 Waterlines, New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA Kindness as Resistance, Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA Other Side III, Galerija Pikto, Zagreb, Croatia Earth and Reveries, Fellowship Residency Exhibition, Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA Retrofit, Telegraph Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Kala Art Auction, Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA Shelf Garden, The 4th L.A.S.T Festival, San Jose, CA Revive, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA StARTup Art Fair, Hotel Del Sol, San Francisco, CA 2016 World’s Faire 2030, NASA Research Center, Mountain View, CA Stateless, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA Anne & Mark’s Art Party SJ, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA 1001 Plates,Shirin Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran Connect and Collect, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art Auction, San Jose, CA Impulse, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
StARTup Art Fair, Hotel Del Sol, San Francisco, CA 2015 Felt Encounters with Past and Present, Inspace Curatorial, San Francisco, CA Bearing Witness: Surveillance in the Drone Age,Fort Mason,San Francisco, CA 50 and Looking Forward, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA Connect and Collect, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art Auction, San Jose, CA SF Bike Coalition Art Auction, Metreon, San Francisco, CA A Tribute to Mondrian, Land Art Project, Twisted Wish Studio and Ranch, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, CA
Artik’s 20th Annual Exhibition, Artik, San Jose, CA 2014 Theory of Survival: Fabrications, Night Markets Events, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA No War, Niavaran Art Center, Tehran, Iran Anne & Mark’s ArtParty SJ, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA Community Matters, San Jose City Hall, San Jose, CA The Other, Mediterranean Biennale of Contemporary Art of Oran, Algeria The Chasm Arena, Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco, CA Deep Reading, Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA 2013 Creativity, Change, Commitment, Triton Museum, San Jose, CA Our Veterans, San Pablo Art Center, San Pablo, CA Don Quixote, Aun Gallery, Tehran, Iran Glyph, Art Ark, San Jose, CA War and Healing, Euphrat Museum of Art, Den Anza College, Cupertino, CA Exploring Urban Identities in De-Industrialized Cities, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA 2012 The Future Imagined: What’s Next?2012 ZERO1 Biennial, The Performance Art Institute, SF, CA X-Libris, Root Division, San Francisco, CA NY Beats, Discourse on Art, Politics and Aesthetics: International Occupy Video, PLATFORM, Munich, Germany La Gran Pachanga Art Auction, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA DYAD, Art Ark, San Jose, CA Directly indirect, Kriewall-Haehl Gallery, Portola Valley, CA 2011 Caution: Vegetable Garden, Land Art, Willowside Ranch, Pescadero, CA Summer in the City, Branch Gallery, Oakland, CA (Political) Love Letters, ArtPad SF in Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco, CA Spring Group Show, Focus Gallery– Artik, San Jose, CA Fiesta Night Gala, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA Night Market, Artist Reading Room, Oakland, CA The Collector’s Room, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA Small and High Quality, Art Ark, San Jose, CA Visual Territory, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS 2010 Illusion, Climate Theater Gallery, San Francisco, CA Mid-Spring Evening Gala, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA Monotype Marathon 2010, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA Works on Paper, Community School of Music and Arts Gala Art Auction, Menlo Park, CA 2009 Traces of Being, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Warhol Now and Then, Wilsey Court, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA Lift Off, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA Unseen Unsaid, Climate Theater, San Francisco, CA Works on Paper, Community School of Music and Arts and Gala Art Auction, Menlo Park, CA 2008 Local Color, Art Ark, San Jose, CA Works on Paper, Orchard Commercial ART Space, San Jose, CA Winter Art Exhibition, Sobrato Center, Milpitas, CA Art Auction, Works, San Jose, CA 2007 Iranian Alliances Across Borders, Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA 2006 San Francisco Open Studios, Gate House, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA Art On the Wall, SomArts, San Francisco, CA 2001-2003, UK Visual Art Exhibition, Pier Gallery, Hastings, UK Challenge the Nail, Salon Des Arts, London, UK Summer Art Exhibition, New Riviera Gallery, Hastings, UK Fourteen Annual Conference of the Iranian Women’s Studies Foundation, The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, UK Spring Art Exhibition, New Riviera Gallery, Hastings, UK Human Rain, Lauderdale House, London, UK Challenge the Nail, Salon Des Arts, London, UK Visual Art Exhibition, Conquest Hospital Gallery, Hastings, UK 1994-1999, Tehran, Iran Fifth Annual Exhibition of Iranian Women Artists, Niavaran Art Center Fourth Annual Exhibition of Iranian Women Artists, Niavaran Art Center Still Life, Haft Samar Gallery Third Annual Exhibition of Iranian Women Artists, Niavaran Art Center Third Annual Exhibition of Graphic Design Works, Museum of Contemporary Art
Honor, Award, Grant 2018 Arts and Cultural Exchange Grant, San Jose-Dublin (Ireland) 2018 Center for Cultural Innovation Travel Grant, The Courtauld Art Institute Art and Science Conference in London, San Francisco, CA 2018 Nominee: The SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA 2017-18 Pre-qualified Artist Pool, The San Francisco Arts Commission’s, public art commissions, San Francisco, CA 2012School of Arts and Culture Grant, Collaborative Community Art Project, San Jose, CA 2011-12Multicultural Arts Leadership Initiative (MALI) Fellowship, School of Arts and Culture, San Jose, CA (Organizational skills and knowledge, participation in community-wide forums, initiatives and task forces) 2011Creative Capacity Fund Grant, San Francisco, CA 2010Distinguished Artist Award, Fine Arts Commission, Cupertino, CA 2010Creative Capacity Fund Grant, San Francisco, CA 2009Orchard Commercial North First ArtSPACE Scholarship, San Jose, CA 2009Nominee: Artshift Award, visual arts, San Jose, CA 2009Nominee: The Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, visual arts, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 2008Orchard Commercial North First ArtSPACE Award, San Jose, CA 2008School of Art and Design Teaching Assistant Scholarship, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Selected Panel and Artist Talk 2018 Nov, Artist Talk, Medieval Science, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 2018 Feb, Artist Talk, Printstallations, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA 2017 Oct, Panel Discussion, Are Art Fairs Right for You, Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, CA
2017 Sep, Artist Talk, Folding Gardens, Fellowship Residency Exhibition, Kala Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2017 July, Artist Talk, (Re) Visualizing Medieval Science, LASER Talk series, USF, San Francisco, CA 2017 May, Artist Talk, (Re) Visualizing Medieval Science, FeaturedArtist Presentation Series, SAFEhouse Arts, San Francisco, CA 2017 April, Artist Talk, (Re) Visualizing Medieval Science, LASER Talk series, UC Berkeley, CA 2016 Mar, Artist Talk, A Creative Conversation with stARTup SF artist Pantea Karimi & StARTup fair co-founders Ray Beldner and Steve Zavattero, Pics Art, San Francisco, CA 2016 Jan, Artist Talk, Punctum Caecum, a visual exploration into the magical world of medieval and early modern scientific manuscripts, Art University,Tehran, Iran 2015 Oct, Artist Talk, Punctum Caecum, a visual exploration into the magical world of medieval and early modern scientific manuscripts, Los Altos Library, Los Altos, CA 2015 Mar, Artist Talk, Through Different Eyes, SJSU and Alzahra Photography Collaborative project, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, San Jose, CA 2014 Sep, Artist Talk, Mediated Senses, Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, CA 2014 Mar, Artist Talk, Contemporary Iranian Art Scene, California State University Stanislaus, Turlock, CA 2013 Apr, Presenter, 10th Arts In Your Classroom: Professional Development Conference, San Jose, CA 2013 Mar, Artist Talk, War and Healing, De Anza College Auditorium & Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA 2010 Dec, Artist Talk, monotype and silkscreen, California College of the Arts (CCA), Oakland, CA
Teaching Experience, College and University 2018 College of San Mateo, San Mateo, CA: Portfolio Review, Graphic Design, Drawing I&II 2013-present Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA: Design and Color Theory, Drawing and Composition I, Silkscreening Techniques I&II 2008-present De Anza College, Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA: Drawing and Painting, Digital Arts & Design 2010 San Jose State University, Co-Teaching, San Jose, CA: Silkscreening Techniques 2008 San Jose State University, Teaching Associate, San Jose, CA: Two-Dimensional Design Concepts 2009 San Jose State University, Teaching Assistant, San Jose, CA: Color Theory & Beginning Painting 2007 San Jose State University, Teaching Assistant, San Jose, CA: Representational Drawing & Two-Dimensional Design Concepts
Pantea Karimi is a multi-disciplinary artist with an interest in taxonomy of image-text relationships. She researches visual representations and textual contents in medieval Persian and Arab and early modern European scientific manuscripts in five categories: mathematics, medicinal botany, anatomy, optics/astronomy and cartography. Through this research project, she also studies the long-term exchange of knowledge across these cultures. In her work, Karimi specifically examines how illustrations in ancient scientific manuscripts played a role in communicating knowledge and how the broader aesthetic considerations of science were closely related to art. Her works collectively highlight the significance of visual elements in early science and invite the viewer to observe science and its history through the process of image-making. She works with interactive installations, silkscreen and digital prints on various substrates and virtual reality.
FOLDING GARDENS,
2017, digital prints on silk organza, rods and threads, 10’x10’x7’ After Herbal of al-Ghafiqi, Botanical Manuscript, 12th c., Andalusia Kala Art Institute
MEDICINAL HERBAL VOLLELLE & AROMA,
2017, Kala Art Institute
Visitors interacting with "FOLDING GARDENS",
San Jose ICA, 2018
BOX GARDEN,
2017, cut-papers, hand-made shadow box with plexiglass, 15” x 40” x 5.5” After The Herbal of al-Ghafiqi, Botanical Medicinal Manuscript, 12th c., Andalusia, Spain
CHAMOMILE GARDEN UNDER THE MEDIEVAL SUN,
2017, silkscreen, graphite and watercolor on paper, 22″x 30″
CHAMOMILE GARDEN IN LIGHT AND SHADE,
2017, silkscreen, graphite and watercolor on paper, 22″x 30″
VOLVELLES,
2015, wood panels, watercolor, ink and silkscreen on paper and fasteners After the cartographer Jean du Temps of Blois, 16th C. France
SIDEREAL MESSENGER,
2017, silkscreen on laser-cut and laser-etched wood panels, acrylic and ink After Galileo, Kepler, Copernicus and Alhazen on astronomy and optics
