Bahman Jalali

*1944-2010 / Iran, Islamic Republic of

Works

Solo exhibitions

SPECTRUM

Internationaler Preis für Fotografie der Stiftung Niedersachsen

Sprengel Museum, Hannover (DE)
29 May 2011 – 21 Aug 2011
Excerpts from a Lifework

Photography in Iran 1966 - 2010

Villa Romana, Firenze (IT)
23 Jun 2010 – 29 Aug 2010
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Camera Austria, Graz (AT)
30 Jan 2009 – 13 Apr 2009

Group

BUT I WORLD I SEE YOU* / Aber ich. Die Welt. Ich sehe. Dich

9. Triennale der Photographie Hamburg

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (DE)
5 Jun 2026 – 4 Oct 2026

with Karimah Ashadu, Rosa Barba, Yto Barrada, Taysir Batniji, Marcel Broodthaers, Helen Chadwick, Hannah Darabi, Tacita Dean, Willie Doherty, Marcel Duchamp, Fischli & Weiss, William Henry Fox Talbot …
Reimagining Home

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (US)
11 Jan 2020 – 12 Jul 2020

with Gohar Dashti
Iran 1979-2019

Looking at Contemporary Iranian Photography

Maupetit Côté, Marseille (FR)
13 Jun 2019 – 31 Aug 2019

with Abbas, Awar Amini, Solmaz Daryani, Gohar Dashti, Shadi Ghadirian, Ghazaleh Hedayat, Rana Javadi, Babak Kazemi, Abbas Kowsari, Mehran Mohajer, Tahmineh Monzavi, Mehrdad Naraghi …
Histoires parallèles

Frac Côte d'Azur, Marseille (FR)
21 Nov 2015 – 7 Feb 2016

with Scoli Acosta, Davide Balula, Yto Barrada, Jordi Colomer, Anne-Valerie Gasc, Evariste Richer
Unedited History. Iran 1960-2014

MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti, Roma (IT)
11 Dec 2014 – 29 Mar 2015

with Kaveh Golestan, Barbad Golshiri, Arash Hanaei, Rana Javadi, Tahmineh Monzavi
UNEDITED HISTORY, Iran 1960-2014

Mus. d'art moderne Paris, Paris (FR)
16 May 2014 – 24 Aug 2014

with Kaveh Golestan, Barbad Golshiri, Arash Hanaei, Rana Javadi, Tahmineh Monzavi
Yek, do, se (1, 2, 3): Three Contemporary Iranian Artists

LACMA Museum, Los Angeles (US)
10 Jul 2010 – 5 Dec 2010

with Samira Alikhanzadeh, Yassaman Ameri
Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran

Southeast Museum, Daytona Beach (US)
2 Feb 2008 – 23 Apr 2008

with Esmail Abbasi, Kourosh Adim, Shokoufe Alidousti, Farshid Azarang, Yahya Dehghanpoor, Shahrokh Ja’fari, Ebrahim Khadem-Bayatv, Majid Koorang Beheshti, Farshid Mesghali, Mehran Mohajer, Ahmad Nateghi, Arman Stepanian …
Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran

Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca (US)
27 Jan 2007 – 18 Mar 2007

with Esmail Abbasi, Kourosh Adim, Shokoufe Alidousti, Farshid Azarang, Yahya Dehghanpoor, Shahrokh Ja’fari, Ebrahim Khadem-Bayatv, Majid Koorang Beheshti, Farshid Mesghali, Mehran Mohajer, Ahmad Nateghi, Arman Stepanian …
Persian Visions: Contemporary Photographs from Iran

Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago (US)
28 Oct 2006 – 31 Dec 2006

with Alireza Abbasi, Kourosh Adim, Shokoufe Alidousti, Farshid Azarang, Yahya Dehghanpoor, Mehran Mohajer, Arman Stepanian, Shahriar Tavakoli, Sadegh Tirafkan
The Veiled Mirror

Contemporary Iranian Photography

De Santos Gallery, Houston (US)
6 May 2006 – 10 Jun 2006

with Dadbeh Bassir, Shadi Ghadirian, Mehran Mohajer, Malekeh Nayiny, Soody Sharifi, Arman Stepanian, Hamila Vakili
Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran

more than sixty works by twenty of Iran’s most celebrated photographers

Honolulu Museum of art, Honolulu (US)
26 Jan 2006 – 16 Apr 2006

with Esmail Abbasi, Kourosh Adim, Shokoufe Alidousti, Farshid Azarang, Yahya Dehghanpoor, Shahrokh Ja’fari, Ebrahim Khadem-Bayatv, Majid Koorang Beheshti, Farshid Mesghali, Mehran Mohajer, Ahmad Nateghi, Arman Stepanian …
Vis-à-vis: Contemporary Iranian Photography

Art Space Gallery, Dubai (AE)
20 Apr 2004 – 6 May 2004

with Kourosh Adim, Shadi Ghadirian, Arash Hanaei, Rana Javadi, Mahgameh Parvaneh

Events

9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026

Alliance Infinity Love - IN THE FACE OF THE OTHER

Triennale der Photographie Hamburg, Hamburg (DE)
5 Jun 2026 – 22 Sep 2026

with Laura Aguilar, Halil Altindere, Helene A. Amouzou, Diane Arbus, Karimah Ashadu, Richard Avedon, Maja Bajevic, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Rosa Barba, Yto Barrada, Taysir Batniji …
Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival 2017

THREE SHADOWS BEIJING, Xiamen (CN)
25 Nov 2017 – 3 Jan 2018

with Ali and Ramyar, Wimo Ambala Bajang, Carlos Ayesta, Ricardo Cases, Federico Clavarino, Gohar Dashti, Wu Ding, CAI Dongdong, Yoshikatsu Fujii, Lara Gasparotto, Shadi Ghadirian, Sarah Mei Herman …