EDUCATION
2022 (Current): MPhil/PhD in the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London
July 2021-August 2021: Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies: Tantra, coordinated by Prof. Gavin Flood, The University of Oxford
June 2021-July 2021: SOAS Yoga Studies Summer School in partnership with The Hatha Yoga Project, SOAS, University of London
2019-2020: MFA Fine Art, The Ruskin School of Art, The University of Oxford
2017-2019: Somerset House Studio Residency, London
2013-2016: BA Honours in Fine Art & History of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London
RESIDENCIES
2021
August 2021: Van Gogh House Residency supported by Minerva, Nominated by Katrina Palmer, Van Gogh House, London
Venice Research Fellowship for the 17th International Venice Architecture Biennale in partnership with The British Council, Venice (cancelled due to COVID-19)
2020
Krasis Scholar at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Hilary Term)
2018
August 2018: Dice Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
April 2018: Threads Salon Micro-Residency, Turner Contemporary
2017
November 2017-April 2019: Somerset House Studios, London
NODE Forum for Digital Arts in partnership with the Goethe-Institut, Ars Electronica and VVVV, Frankfurt
2016
TADAEX (Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition) in partnership with Kooshk, NODE Forum for Digital Arts and the Goethe-Institut, Tehran
AWARDS
2022
Best Experimental Film 2022: New Indra, (The Breaking of English Water), Andromeda Film Festival, International Cinema Community, Balat, Istanbul, Turkey
Official Film Selection 2022: New Indra, (The Breaking of English Water), Lift-Off Global Network, Pinewood Studios, Iver
2019
Oxford PGT Full Graduate Studentship awarded by the Humanities Division and St Cross College, The University of Oxford 2019-2020
Erna Plachte Prize for portfolio awarded by The Ruskin School of Art, The University of Oxford
2016
Finalist for the Zealous Graduate Art Prize 2016
2013
Undergraduate National Scholarship awarded by Goldsmiths, University of London 2013-2016
PUBLICATIONS
2022
The Very Best of Internal Migration – HOAX Publication (Online)
When You Blossom I Bloom – Forthcoming Publication, edited by Sarah Khan (Baesianz), Royal College of Art (Print + Online)
2020
The Ruskin 2020 MFA Degree Show Publication (Online)
Return – Publication with Paadman Projects in Tehran, edited by Foad Alijan (Print and Online)
2019
Talking duality and open source-ery with Lilian Nejatpour by Helen Fortescue - Oxford Student Publications Ltd (Print)
Absinthe 2 Interview: Lilian Nejatpour by Hector Campbell - Elam x Kronos Publishing (Print and Online)
2018
Art Licks Magazine: Issue 22: GORSEDD, Tenderbooks, London (Print)
2016
Aesthetica Magazine: November 2016 Issue: Artist Directory: Lilian Nejatpour (Print and Online)
2015
Ephemeral Magazine: Visual Cultures 10, Goldsmiths, Visual Cultures (Print and Online)
PANEL DISCUSSIONS | TEACHING | PRESENTATIONS
2022
Writing Workshop: 'Moving from Rigidity to Fluidity', The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
Visiting Lecturer for BA Fine Art Sculpture, The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
Visiting Artist and Lecturer for BA Fine Art and History of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London
Life After Art School Programme- Alumni Panel Discussion and Q&A, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, University of London
2021
Research Presentation for SOAS Yoga and Meditation Studies 2021, moderated by Lucy May Constantini and Ruth Westoby, SOAS, University of London (Online)
Artist Talk and Q&A for MA Design Studies, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (Online)
2020
Artist Talk and Q&A for BA Fine Art Induction, Ruskin School of Art, The University of Oxford (Online)
Artist Presentation and Q&A for PGT Award, St Cross Lecture Theatre, St Cross College, The University of Oxford
2019
The Feminist Library Film, Presentation and Q&A with Lucy Sanderson, Women in Film SE15, Nunhead
CRIT at Lewisham Art House moderated by Sara Willlett, London
Foreign Sleep Q&A with Bath Spa University moderated by Michelle Elliott, Bath
2018
Choreophobia WIP moderated by Loren Elhili and Nora Almes at Chisenhale Art Place, London
Choreophobia II Artist Salon and Crit moderated by Phillippa Wall at Turner Contemporary, Margate
Nando’s Soho Art Gallery Talks moderated by Last Night in Paris, Nando’s Soho, London
2017
Q&A for Cairotronica moderated by Nada Bakr Shemais at Palace of Arts, Cairo Opera House, Cairo
2016
Q&A for TADAEX moderated by Jeanne Vogt, Alex Waligorski and Ali Phi at Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
2013-2016
Goldsmiths Summer School Coordinator for ages 16-18, Goldsmiths, University of London (Summer only)
PRESS
2021
Van Gogh House: Permanent Commissions: Lilian Nejatpour Soundscape
Van Gogh House London x The Minerva Residency 2021: Roy Claire Potter and Lilian Nejatpour
2020
Wanawal (The West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library)
Choreophobia Interview with Foad Alijani (Paadmaan Projects Tehran), Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm
Bold Tendencies 2020
Collective Ending: Lilian Nejatpour
2019
Art Licks Radio Weekend 2019 in partnership with RTM.FM and TACO!
Kronos x Elam Publishing: Interview for Absinthe 2 by curator Hector Campbell
Coeval Magazine: Absinthe 2
Peckham 24: Lilian Nejatpour & Rebecca Salvadori
Photoworks in Peckham featuring Lilian Nejatpour Rebecca Salvadori
Art Dependence: Photoworks at Peckham 24
Mixmag: A new dance music-related photo exhibition, 'Dancing in Peckham'
I.D Magazine: The best things to watch, see and do this week in the UK- Peckham 24
Photoworks London: Dance Photochat between Lilian Nejatpour and Rebecca Salvadori
The Evening Standard: Lucy Sanderson in collaboration with filmmaker Lilian Nejatpour and Grammy-award winning musician La Roux
2018
D&AD: Making a mark in an ever-shifting landscape; The Future of Creativity
Dazed: Art shows to leave the house for this month
Skin Deep Magazine: Skin Deep meets Lilian Nejatpour
HyperAllergic Magazine: Wrestling with Iran's Strict Gender Roles Through Dance
Resonance 104.4FM: Six Pillars 'Choreophobia': Interview with Fari Bradley
Art Licks Magazine: ‘Issue 22: GORSEDD’
2017
Another Mag: A Poignant Short Film About Race, Religion & the Avant-Garde
ID Magazine: Expressions of Feminism from The Arab & Muslim Diaspora
Dazed Digital: POCC
Gal-dem: POCC Interview
2016: NODE Forum: TADAEX 2016
SHOWS
2022
Forthcoming
'Special Edition 2022-2023', Poetry Reading in collaboration with DYSPLA x The National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London.
October 2022
'Lilian's Vow' Screening x Rebecca Salvadori, Inverted Audio, Iklectik, London.
'New Indra' Screening x The West Asian and North African Women's Art Library, curated by Evar Hussayni, Reference Point Library 180, London.
August 2022
'New Indra' Online Screening x Lift-Off Global Network First-time Filmmaker's Festival 2022, Lift-Off, Pinewood Studios, Iver.
'New Indra' Online Screening x Andromeda Film Festival 2022 and Winner of Best Experimental Film 2022, International Cinema Community, Balat, Istanbul, Turkey.
2021
August 2021
'Thank you for the outside, see you on the inside', site-specific audio, the Van Gogh House noticeboard, 87 Hackford Road, London.
2020
July 2020
'Hoist' at BOLD TENDENCIES 2020, with Sol Bailey-Barker, Jeremy Deller, Jack Evans, Nathaniel Faulkner, Lucy Gregory, Jenny Holzer, Rene Matić, Davinia-Ann Robinson and Rafał Zajko, curated by Hannah Barry and Charlie Mills, Multi-Storey Car Park, Rye Lane Peckham.
June 2020
'New Indra' as part of No Show (The Ruskin School of Art MFA 2020 Degree Show), Online.
April 2020
'Tail of the East' as part of The Art of Noises V, curated by Daniel Hulme, EMPRes (Oxford's Electronic Music Practice Research Group) and Modern Art Oxford (cancelled due to COVID-19).
2019
October 2019
'The Sound of Engines when Birds take off', Radio commission and broadcast for Art Licks Radio Weekend 2019, curated by Holly Willats, Art Licks, TACO! and RTM. FM.
August 2019
4:3 Boiler Room Launch for 'Lilian's Vow', Commission in partnership with Rebecca Salvadori, curated by Amar Ediriwira.
June 2019
Photoworks Instagram takeover with Rebecca Salvadori commissioned by Photoworks.
May 2019
'Hoist' as part of Group Show ABSINTHE §2 at the Spit and Sawdust Pub, curated by Charlie Mills and Billy Fraser (Collective Ending).
'Lilian's Vow' in partnership with Rebecca Salvadori at Peckham 24 & Photoworks London, curated by by Shoair Mavlian and Jamila Prowse.
March 2019
'Foreign Sleep' at Strange Love Festival 2019, curated by Phillippa Wall, The Brewery Tap, Folkestone.
'This is not a Funeral', Group Show with EAST (Eating At The Same Table Collective) at Regents Place, London.
February 2019:
‘One Night Only’, Sculpture Show at Lewisham Art House, London.
'Transition to Foreign Sleep', Performance and Q&A at Bath Spa University x Dance Spa Theatre Bristol, Bath.
2018
September 2018
'Choreophobia' (Final iteration), curated by Lorén Elhili and Nora Almes (To Whom This May Concern), Lancaster Rooms, Somerset House.
August 2018
'Choreophobia' at Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018, curated by Colette Patterson, Dice Festival, Edinburgh.
'Choreophobia' (WIP), Performance featuring Eva Escrich Gonzalez & Lauren Stewart. Panel Discussion with Lorén Elhili and Nora Almes (To Whom This May Concern), Chisenhale Studios, London.
June 2018
'EAST: Eating At The Same Table', Group Show curated by Rochelle White, Willesden Gallery, London.
May 2018
'Cairotronica: Festival of Electronic and New Media Art', curated by Nada Bakr, funded by the Goethe-Institut, Palace of Arts, Cairo Opera House Complex, Cairo, Egypt.
April 2018
'Threads Salon''- Turner Contemporary, curated by Phillippa Wall, Margate.
March 2018
'We Are Here, British BME Women'- LSE Library, London.
'GORSEDD'- Tenderbooks, London.
January 2018
'Feelings x CYAN'- CYAN Gallery, curated by Hilde Thon, Oslo, Norway.
2017
October 2017
‘Saint (The Empty Pose)’- Film Score in collaboration with Georgina Johnson, Studio 3, Photographer's Gallery, London.
September 2017
'Deptford X Festival', Deptford, London.
August 2017
'Feminism(s) x The Arab and Muslim Diaspora', curated by Lorén Elhili at Protein Studios, London.
June 2017
'BME Women', Alev Lenz Studio, London.
June 2017
'Designing Hope', NODE Festival, curated by Jeanne Vogt and Alex Waligorski, Naxoshalle, Frankfurt.
April 2017
'SLAB', APT Gallery, Deptford, London.
March 2017
'POCC', 47 Gallery, curated by Eldon Somers, London.
2015-2016
November 2016
'Has Moving Parts', Octavius Street, Deptford, London.
September 2016
'TADAEX 2016': Tehran Annual Digital Arts Festival, curated by Ali Phi, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
June 2016
'Goldsmith's Fine Art & History of Art Undergraduate Degree Show', Goldsmiths, University of London.
November 2015
'Volume X', Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths, University of London.
March 2015
'Disorientation', Mile End Ecology Pavilion, Mile End, London.
2022
Forthcoming
'Special Edition 2022-2023', Poetry Reading in collaboration with DYSPLA x The National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London.
October 2022
'Lilian's Vow' Screening x Rebecca Salvadori, Inverted Audio, Iklectik, London.
'New Indra' Screening x The West Asian and North African Women's Art Library, curated by Evar Hussayni, Reference Point Library 180, London.
August 2022
'New Indra' Online Screening x Lift-Off Global Network First-time Filmmaker's Festival 2022, Lift-Off, Pinewood Studios, Iver.
'New Indra' Online Screening x Andromeda Film Festival 2022 and Winner of Best Experimental Film 2022, International Cinema Community, Balat, Istanbul, Turkey.
2021
August 2021
'Thank you for the outside, see you on the inside', site-specific audio, the Van Gogh House noticeboard, 87 Hackford Road, London.
2020
July 2020
'Hoist' at BOLD TENDENCIES 2020, with Sol Bailey-Barker, Jeremy Deller, Jack Evans, Nathaniel Faulkner, Lucy Gregory, Jenny Holzer, Rene Matić, Davinia-Ann Robinson and Rafał Zajko, curated by Hannah Barry and Charlie Mills, Multi-Storey Car Park, Rye Lane Peckham.
June 2020
'New Indra' as part of No Show (The Ruskin School of Art MFA 2020 Degree Show), Online.
April 2020
'Tail of the East' as part of The Art of Noises V, curated by Daniel Hulme, EMPRes (Oxford's Electronic Music Practice Research Group) and Modern Art Oxford (cancelled due to COVID-19).
2019
October 2019
'The Sound of Engines when Birds take off', Radio commission and broadcast for Art Licks Radio Weekend 2019, curated by Holly Willats, Art Licks, TACO! and RTM. FM.
August 2019
4:3 Boiler Room Launch for 'Lilian's Vow', Commission in partnership with Rebecca Salvadori, curated by Amar Ediriwira.
June 2019
Photoworks Instagram takeover with Rebecca Salvadori commissioned by Photoworks.
May 2019
'Hoist' as part of Group Show ABSINTHE §2 at the Spit and Sawdust Pub, curated by Charlie Mills and Billy Fraser (Collective Ending).
'Lilian's Vow' in partnership with Rebecca Salvadori at Peckham 24 & Photoworks London, curated by by Shoair Mavlian and Jamila Prowse.
March 2019
'Foreign Sleep' at Strange Love Festival 2019, curated by Phillippa Wall, The Brewery Tap, Folkestone.
'This is not a Funeral', Group Show with EAST (Eating At The Same Table Collective) at Regents Place, London.
February 2019:
‘One Night Only’, Sculpture Show at Lewisham Art House, London.
'Transition to Foreign Sleep', Performance and Q&A at Bath Spa University x Dance Spa Theatre Bristol, Bath.
2018
September 2018
'Choreophobia' (Final iteration), curated by Lorén Elhili and Nora Almes (To Whom This May Concern), Lancaster Rooms, Somerset House.
August 2018
'Choreophobia' at Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018, curated by Colette Patterson, Dice Festival, Edinburgh.
'Choreophobia' (WIP), Performance featuring Eva Escrich Gonzalez & Lauren Stewart. Panel Discussion with Lorén Elhili and Nora Almes (To Whom This May Concern), Chisenhale Studios, London.
June 2018
'EAST: Eating At The Same Table', Group Show curated by Rochelle White, Willesden Gallery, London.
May 2018
'Cairotronica: Festival of Electronic and New Media Art', curated by Nada Bakr, funded by the Goethe-Institut, Palace of Arts, Cairo Opera House Complex, Cairo, Egypt.
April 2018
'Threads Salon''- Turner Contemporary, curated by Phillippa Wall, Margate.
March 2018
'We Are Here, British BME Women'- LSE Library, London.
'GORSEDD'- Tenderbooks, London.
January 2018
'Feelings x CYAN'- CYAN Gallery, curated by Hilde Thon, Oslo, Norway.
2017
October 2017
‘Saint (The Empty Pose)’- Film Score in collaboration with Georgina Johnson, Studio 3, Photographer's Gallery, London.
September 2017
'Deptford X Festival', Deptford, London.
August 2017
'Feminism(s) x The Arab and Muslim Diaspora', curated by Lorén Elhili at Protein Studios, London.
June 2017
'BME Women', Alev Lenz Studio, London.
June 2017
'Designing Hope', NODE Festival, curated by Jeanne Vogt and Alex Waligorski, Naxoshalle, Frankfurt.
April 2017
'SLAB', APT Gallery, Deptford, London.
March 2017
'POCC', 47 Gallery, curated by Eldon Somers, London.
2015-2016
November 2016
'Has Moving Parts', Octavius Street, Deptford, London.
September 2016
'TADAEX 2016': Tehran Annual Digital Arts Festival, curated by Ali Phi, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
June 2016
'Goldsmith's Fine Art & History of Art Undergraduate Degree Show', Goldsmiths, University of London.
November 2015
'Volume X', Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths, University of London.
March 2015
'Disorientation', Mile End Ecology Pavilion, Mile End, London.
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