Ghada Amer & Reza Farkhondeh

Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh were invited to the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies in the summer of 2009 to collaborate on a new print project. The artists had a history of working together on editioned projects with different print publishers. The Neiman team supported their production of a series of monoprints, a technique which blurred the boundaries between printmaking and drawing. Sakua color and Caran d'Ache pigments - traditional monoprinting inks and crayons - were mixed with solvents to form a new saturated medium. This medium was then applied to sheets of paper through a screen stencil. Each image was built up with distinct screens and multiple runs resulting in a series of unique works. These monoprints were exhibited at the Galeria Filomena Soares in Lisbon, Portugal in September 2010.

Amer (b.1963, Cairo, Egypt) and Farkhondeh (b. 1963, Iran) both studied at the Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques in Paris and at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts à la Villa Arson in Nice where they earned MFA degrees.

Ghada Amer has had solo exhibitions at Annina Nosei Gallery, Deitch Projects, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, and DE Appel Foundation, Amsterdam to name a few. She and Farkhondeh have exhibited together at the Brooklyn Museum and Singapore Tyler Print Institute. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Centre Georges Pomidou, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC), Paris, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Neuberger Berman Art Collection and Samsung Museum, Seoul among others. 

Reza Farkohdeh has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris, La Chapelle Sainte- Elisabeth, Villefranche-sur-Mer and participated in group exhibitions at the Grolier Club, Kansas City Art Institute, and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam among others. 

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