Selected Press
ARTICLES 2024
Arte Usso Team, “Shahpour Pouyan in Frist Museum”, June 2024
ARTICLES 2023
Zahra Khademi, “Review: My Place Is the Placeless”, The Courtauld, August 2023
Olivia McEvan, “The Wonderously Defiant Art of Contemporary Ceramics”, Hyperallergic, January 2023
“My Place IS the Placeless”, Ceramics Now, June 2023
ARTICLES 2022
Penny Dan Xu, “Art Conversation: Shahpour Pouyan”, Canvas Magazine, June 2022
Laura Cumming, “Strange Clay Review: Dynamic Ceramic”, The Guardian, October 2022
Jordan Amirkhani, “In the Studio: Shahpour Pouyan”, Art in America, December 2022
ARTICLES 2020
Huma Kabakcı, 10 Minutes With Shahpour Pouyan, July, 2020
ARTICLES 2019
Meer Art, Nathalie Obadia Gallery in Paris, France, May, 2019
ARTICLES 2018
Anna Wallace-Thompson, “Shahpour Pouyan at Copperfield, London,” Art Review, December, 2018
Rahel Aima, “Shahpour Pouyan: My Place is the Placeless,” Art Review Asia, Spring, 2018
“A New Body of Work by Shahpour Pouyan”, Islamic Arts Magazine, March 7 2018
Kelly Crow, “High Tech Meets High Art at the Armory Show,” Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2018
ARTICLES 2017
Jason Farago, “Art Basel Miami Beach, Post-Irma, Is Still Swinging,” The New York Times, December 7, 2017
Rebecca Close, “ ‘My Place is the Placeless’: Iranian artist Shahpour Pouyan at Lawrie Shabibi,” Dubai,” Art Radar, December 12, 2017
Nick Leech,“ ‘My Place is the Placeless’: Shahpour Pouyan at Lawrie Shabibi,” The National, December 12, 2017
Jyoti Kalsi, “Rejecting labels of identity,” Gulf News, December 20, 2017
Elizabeth Sutton, “expose pour la première fois à Paris,” IDBOOX, March 2017
Elisabeth Guerin, “Iran revisité,” Madame Figaro, April 2017
Anna Sansom, “We Owe This Considerable Land to the Horizon Line,” Damn Magazine, May 2017
Efi Michalarou, “New Comers: Shahpour Pouyan,” Dream Idea Machine, March 2017
ARTICLES 2016
Gabrielle Gopinath, “Home Land Security at The Presidio,” SFAQ, December 2016
Amei Wallach, “Awaiting Armageddon,” Art in America, November 2016
Kevin Jones, “Tehran Days,” Art Asia Pacific, Sep/Oct 2016
Anna Wallace-Thompson, “Global/Local”, Artforum.com March 18, 2016
Livia Alexander, “Tracing tradition in a survey of six Iranian artists,” Hyperallergic, March 18, 2016
ARTICLES 2015
Michael Fitzgerald, “Global/Local: 1960 – 2015: Six Artists from Iran,” Wall Street Journal, February 2, 2015
Holland Cotter, “Six Artists from Iran,” New York Times, January 2015
Rob Sharp, “How the Global Refugee Crisis Is Impacting and Influencing Artists,” Artsy, November 5, 2015
ARTICLES 2014
Dale Berning Sawa, “Unfamiliar Territory: Artists Navigate the Complexities of the Immigrant Crisis,” The Guardian, September 28, 2014
Amy Kisch, “Climbing Jacob’s Ladder,” Fine Art Magazine, December 2014
Kevin Jones, “PTSD Shapour Pouyan,” FlashArtOnLine.com, June 4, 2014
Bharti Lalwani “PTSD Review,” Harper Bazaar, May 1, 2014
ARTICLES 2013
Anna Seaman, “Shahpour Pouyan at LS,” The National, March 31, 2013
Jyoti Kalsi, “Traces of Humans,” Gulf News, July 4, 2013
Danna Lorch, “A Scientist and A Philosopher,” Danna Writes, July 2, 2013
Shahrouz Nazari, “Drown without water,” Tandis Magazine, September 14, 2013
Paddy Johnson, “ArtCycle Discovers Prize,” Art F City, January 30, 2013
ATICLES 2011 & OLDER
Ali Bakhtiari, “Path and Glory,” Contemporary Practices, November 1, 2011
Iyoti Kalsi, ”Allegory of Authority,” Gulf News, May 13, 2011
Charlie R Neyra, “Full Metal Jacket,” Khaleej Times. April 29,2011
Jason Rezaian, “Inside Iran: The Art of Resistance,” Global Post, April 19, 2011
Chandana Khan, “An Art Bonanza,” Deccan Chronicle, March 7, 2011
Ingo Arend, “Itʼs All About Change,” Nafas Art Magazine, February 2011
Soheila Niakan, “Towers Come Behind You,” Hamshahri, May 25, 2009
Navid Farzi, “Interview with Shahpour Pouyan,” Roozan, May 11, 2009
Muhammad Yusuf, “Talking Towers,” The Gulf Today, February 14, 2009
Raziqueh Hussain, “Power and Glory,” Khaleej Times, February 20, 2009
PUBLIC APPEARANCES & INTERVIEWS
Punk Orientalism at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, December 2018
Saskatchewan Weekend, CBC, Regina, November 2018
NYC-Arts TV, PBS, New York City, April 2017
Jameel Prize 4 – Shahpour Pouyan, November 2016
“Profile: Shahpour Pouyan,” BBC, May 2015
“Tamasha Weekly Art Journal,” March 2014
Radio Report and Conversation between Murtaza Vali and Lee Xie, In Book of Lee Program, March 31, 2014