Raha Raissnia
Raha Raissnia (b. 1968, Tehran, Iran) lives and works between New York City and Athens, Greece. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1992) and her MFA from Pratt Institute (2002). Solo institutional exhibitions of her work have been held at the Drawing Center, New York (2018), and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2016). Recent solo exhibitions include نور (Nour), Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2022); Galerie Xippas, Paris (2023); Galerie Khoshbakt, Cologne (2023); and Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2019).
Recent group exhibitions include Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York (2021–22); Long Live Modern Movement, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson (2020); The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA's Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2019); Looking Back – The 8th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York (2014); Cosmography, The Kitchen, New York (2011); and Engaging the False Mirror, Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis (2010). In 2015, her work was included in the 13th Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador, and the 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor.
Her film and slide projection performances, often undertaken in collaboration with Aki Onda, Panagiotis Mavridis, and Charles Curtis, have been presented at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; REDCAT, Los Angeles; Kunsthal Rotterdam; Arnolfini, Bristol; the Drawing Center, New York; ISSUE Project Room, New York; and Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, among others. Her work is held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Pinault Collection; Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania; Pejman Foundation, Tehran; and Colección INELCOM, Madrid.
