CV
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2021 (UPCOMING)
Venice Biennale Fellowship 2021: The British Council
2019
BME Scholarship in the Humanities, The University of Oxford 2019-2020
2018
November 2018-April 2019: Somerset House Studios
Dice Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, August 2018
Threads Salon ,Turner Contemporary, April 2018
2017
TADAEX 2016 & NODE 2017 Exchange Programme,Tehran | Frankfurt.
2016
Shortlisted for the Zealous Graduate Art Prize 2016
2013
The National Scholarship Programme, Goldsmiths, The University of London 2013-2016
PUBLICATIONS/INTERVIEWS
2020
Wanawal (The West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library)
Choreophobia Interview with Foad Alijani (Paadmaan Projects Tehran), Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm
2019
The Oxford Student: Talking duality, displacement, and open source-ery with Lilian Nejatpour by Helen Fortescue (Newspaper)
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
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2021 (UPCOMING)
Venice Biennale Fellowship 2021: The British Council
2019
BME Scholarship in the Humanities, The University of Oxford 2019-2020
2018
November 2018-April 2019: Somerset House Studios
Dice Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, August 2018
Threads Salon ,Turner Contemporary, April 2018
2017
TADAEX 2016 & NODE 2017 Exchange Programme,Tehran | Frankfurt.
2016
Shortlisted for the Zealous Graduate Art Prize 2016
2013
The National Scholarship Programme, Goldsmiths, The University of London 2013-2016
PUBLICATIONS/INTERVIEWS
2020
Wanawal (The West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library)
Choreophobia Interview with Foad Alijani (Paadmaan Projects Tehran), Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm
2019
The Oxford Student: Talking duality, displacement, and open source-ery with Lilian Nejatpour by Helen Fortescue (Newspaper)
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
EXHIBITIONS
ONGOING
The Feminist Library film in collaboration with Lucy Sanderson.
2020
July 2020- September 2020
'Hoist' at BOLD TENDENCIES, Multi-Storey Car Park, Rye Lane Peckham.
April 2020 (Postponed)
‘Tail of the East’, The Art of Noises (Oxford Electronic Music Practice Research), Curated by Daniel Hulme, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
2019
October 2019
'The Sound of Engines when Birds take off', Composition and broadcast for Art Licks Radio Weekend 2019 in partnership with RTM.FM and TACO!
August 2019
4:3 Boiler Room Launch for 'Lilian's vow' 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, London curated by Charlie Mills and Billy Fraser.
'Lilian's Vow' at Peckham 24 & Photoworks London. Film Commission by Rebecca Salvadori from Choreophobia live documentation.
March 2019
'Foreign Sleep' at Strange Love Festival 2019, The Brewery Tap, Folkestone.
This is not a Funeral', Group show at Regents Place, London.
February 2019:
‘One Night Only’, Sculpture Show at Lewisham Art House, London.
'Transition to Foreign Sleep', performed with Q&A at Bath Spa University x Dance Spa Theatre Bristol, Bath.
2018
September 2018
'Choreophobia' (Final Iteration) at Somerset House, Lancaster Rooms, London.
August 2018
'Choreophobia' at Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018, Dice Festival, Edinburgh.
'Choreophobia', Performance featuring Eva Escrich Gonzalez & Lauren Stewart. Panel Discussion with Loren Elhili and Nora Almes (To Whom This May Concern), Chisenhale Studios, London.
June 2018
'EAST: Eating At The Same Table', Group Show, Willesden Gallery, London.
May 2018
'Cairotronica, Festival of Electronic and New Media Art', Palace of Arts, Cairo Opera House Complex, Cairo, Egypt.
April 2018
'Threads Salon''- Turner Contemporary, Margate.
March 2018
'We Are Here, British BME Women'- LSE Library, London.
'GORSEDD'- Tenderbooks, London.
January 2018
'Feelings x CYAN'- CYAN Gallery, Oslo, Norway.
2017
October 2017
‘Saint (The Empty Pose)’- Film Score in collaboration with Georgina Johnson, Studio 3, Photographers Gallery, London.
September 2017
'Deptford X Festival', Deptford, London.
August 2017
'Feminism(s) x The Arab and Muslim Diaspora', Protein Studios, London.
June 2017
'BME Women', Alev Lenz Studio, London.
June 2017
'Designing Hope', NODE Festival, Naxoshalle, Frankfurt.
April 2017
'SLAB', APT Gallery, Deptford, London.
March 2017
'POCC', 47 Gallery, Camberwell, London.
2016-15
November 2016
'Has Moving Parts', Octavius Street, Deptford, London.
September 2016
'TADAEX 2016': Tehran Annual Digital Arts Festival- Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
June 2016
'Goldsmith's Fine Art & History of Art Undergraduate Degree Show', New Cross, London.
November 2015
'Volume X', Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London.
March 2015
'Disorientation', Mile End Ecology Pavilion, Mile End, London.
EDUCATION:
2019-2020: MFA Fine Art, The Ruskin School of Art, The University of Oxford.
2013-2016: BA Fine Art & History of Art, Goldsmiths, The University of London.
2012-2013: UAL Art & Design Foundation Diploma, The University Of Creative Arts, Epsom, Surrey.
ONGOING
The Feminist Library film in collaboration with Lucy Sanderson.
2020
July 2020- September 2020
'Hoist' at BOLD TENDENCIES, Multi-Storey Car Park, Rye Lane Peckham.
April 2020 (Postponed)
‘Tail of the East’, The Art of Noises (Oxford Electronic Music Practice Research), Curated by Daniel Hulme, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
2019
October 2019
'The Sound of Engines when Birds take off', Composition and broadcast for Art Licks Radio Weekend 2019 in partnership with RTM.FM and TACO!
August 2019
4:3 Boiler Room Launch for 'Lilian's vow' 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, London curated by Charlie Mills and Billy Fraser.
'Lilian's Vow' at Peckham 24 & Photoworks London. Film Commission by Rebecca Salvadori from Choreophobia live documentation.
March 2019
'Foreign Sleep' at Strange Love Festival 2019, The Brewery Tap, Folkestone.
This is not a Funeral', Group show at Regents Place, London.
February 2019:
‘One Night Only’, Sculpture Show at Lewisham Art House, London.
'Transition to Foreign Sleep', performed with Q&A at Bath Spa University x Dance Spa Theatre Bristol, Bath.
2018
September 2018
'Choreophobia' (Final Iteration) at Somerset House, Lancaster Rooms, London.
August 2018
'Choreophobia' at Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018, Dice Festival, Edinburgh.
'Choreophobia', Performance featuring Eva Escrich Gonzalez & Lauren Stewart. Panel Discussion with Loren Elhili and Nora Almes (To Whom This May Concern), Chisenhale Studios, London.
June 2018
'EAST: Eating At The Same Table', Group Show, Willesden Gallery, London.
May 2018
'Cairotronica, Festival of Electronic and New Media Art', Palace of Arts, Cairo Opera House Complex, Cairo, Egypt.
April 2018
'Threads Salon''- Turner Contemporary, Margate.
March 2018
'We Are Here, British BME Women'- LSE Library, London.
'GORSEDD'- Tenderbooks, London.
January 2018
'Feelings x CYAN'- CYAN Gallery, Oslo, Norway.
2017
October 2017
‘Saint (The Empty Pose)’- Film Score in collaboration with Georgina Johnson, Studio 3, Photographers Gallery, London.
September 2017
'Deptford X Festival', Deptford, London.
August 2017
'Feminism(s) x The Arab and Muslim Diaspora', Protein Studios, London.
June 2017
'BME Women', Alev Lenz Studio, London.
June 2017
'Designing Hope', NODE Festival, Naxoshalle, Frankfurt.
April 2017
'SLAB', APT Gallery, Deptford, London.
March 2017
'POCC', 47 Gallery, Camberwell, London.
2016-15
November 2016
'Has Moving Parts', Octavius Street, Deptford, London.
September 2016
'TADAEX 2016': Tehran Annual Digital Arts Festival- Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
June 2016
'Goldsmith's Fine Art & History of Art Undergraduate Degree Show', New Cross, London.
November 2015
'Volume X', Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London.
March 2015
'Disorientation', Mile End Ecology Pavilion, Mile End, London.
EDUCATION:
2019-2020: MFA Fine Art, The Ruskin School of Art, The University of Oxford.
2013-2016: BA Fine Art & History of Art, Goldsmiths, The University of London.
2012-2013: UAL Art & Design Foundation Diploma, The University Of Creative Arts, Epsom, Surrey.