“What kind of practice do I want to sustain? Or where do I want to say yes? Where do I want to say no? I’m really interested in actually experience-sharing because we’re all in our space trying to figure this out. There’s no guidebook.”
Artists and Rights, Episode 1: Living a Life While Decolonizing the Mind
Artists and Rights, Episode 2: Superpowers and Guiding Principles: Defining What You Want
GELARE KHOSHGOZARAN is an undisciplinary artist and writer who, in 2009, was transplanted from street protests in a city of four seasons to the windowless rooms of the University of Southern California where aesthetics and politics were discussed in endless summers. Using time-based media and film, her practice encompasses literary theory, translation, and autobiographical fiction. Her essays and interviews on art, politics, and culture have been published and are forthcoming in contemptorary (co-founder), The Brooklyn Rail, Parkett, X-TRA, The Enemy, Flat Journal, Ajam Media Collective, and Temporary Art Review, amongst others. Her films, video essays, installations, and performances have been presented in solo and group exhibitions at the New Museum, Queens Museum, Eyebeam, Hammer Museum, LAXART, Human Resources, Articule (Montreal), Beursschouwburg (Brussels), and Pori Art Museum (Pori, Finland). She was the recipient of a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2015) and an Art Matters Award (2017), and is artist in residence at Yarat Contemporary Art Space in Baku, Azerbaijan (Fall 2019).
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UCLA Design Media Arts Lecture (2019).
Hammer Museum Conversation: Transnational Intimacy: Gelare Khoshgozaran and Candice Lin (2018)
Selected Works
Gelare Khoshgozaran, LIKELY MINE, 2020. Installation view, Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles. Boneyard, aluminum, copper and steel filament, dimensions variable. Photo: Josh Schaedel.
Gelare Khoshgozaran, eye five eight nine: application for asylum and for withholding of removal, 2016. Letterpress prints on cotton paper, 13 x 16 in., edition of 5. Installation view, S/Election, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Gelare Khoshgozaran, Dead Brother’s Flesh, lecture performance with Dan Bustillo, 2016. Ours Is a City of Writers, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery. Photo: Jimena Sarno.