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The Names We Change as part of The Other Four exhibition featured on MPR NEWS on view February 9, 2024 – May 19, 2024
This is Not a Pomegranate installation/performance, Regis Center for Art, May 6, 2024
The symposium brings together scholars of Middle East studies, gender studies, anthropology, and cultural studies, as well as the local scholar/artist and UMN Alum, Katayoun Amjadi to tackle the question of violence and its articulations in relation to the Middle East.
The Names We Change as part of The Other Four exhibition featured on Axios Twin Cities
The Names We Change as part of The Other Four exhibition featured on Star Tribune
The Names We Change as part of The Other Four exhibition featured on MinnPost
The Other Four, Weisman Art Museum, February 9 – May 19, 2024
Valentine’s for Palestine, fundraiser ceramic watermelon pins sale
Normandale Art Faculty and Staff Exhibition, January 9 – January 25, 2024
Yalda for Gaza: A Solstice Solidarity Fundraiser, Public Functionary, December 22, 2023
Rage. Remember. Renew. Seven Memorials to Victims of Gun Violence at Form+Content Gallery, December 7, 2023—January 13, 2024
Twin Cities Iranian Arts Exhibition at Hopkins Art Center, October 26 – December 2, 2023
Beauty from Ashes -Art is My Weapon at Nine Mile Gallery, Opening Reception: Friday, November 4, 3-6pm
Underneath Everything: Humility and Grandeur in Contemporary Ceramics at Grand Rapids Art Museum, Oct 7, 2023-Jan 14, 2024
In conversation with CanvasRebel.com
Underneath Everything: Humility and Grandeur in Contemporary Ceramics,
Des Moines Art Center, June-Sept 2023
Unapologetically Femme: A Defiant Celebration of the Complexities of Femininity, La.dy.Like Art Gallery, April 21— May 28, 2023.
Familial(ar) at Anton Art Center, April 29—May 26, 2023
Materials, Methods, Meaning: Abundance and Loss in the Art of Katayoun Amjadi
by Erin Shafkind, February 2023 issue of Ceramics Monthly
Polyvocality: Solidarity in the Time of Political Rupture, NCECA Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 2023
Panel discussion on art and activism in Iran & Afghanistan. Open Book, Minnesota Center for Book Arts
One and Three Sculptures, NE Sculpture Gallery Factory, March-April, 2023
Woman, Life, Freedom Virtual Series, The Role of Art in Understanding Iranian Feminist Revolution, Minnesota Humanities Center, Jan 25, 2023
Get Lucky 2023, Soo Visual Art Center,
Friday, January 27th and Saturday, January 28th
Iranian Artists Exhibition, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Sep 22-Oct 22, 2022
UnderExposed, Group Exhibition at the Cargill Gallery, Minneapolis Central Library, Apr 7-May 27, 2022
2020/21 MCAD-Jerome Fellowship Exhibition at MCAD Gallery, Jan 18-Mar 5, 2022
2020/21 MCAD-Jerome Fellowship Exhibition Catalogue (PDF)
Weekend Journal: On-the-Spot with Katayoun Amjadi
The Brooklyn Rail publication, Oct 2021
Get Lucky 2022, Soo Vac’s Annual Fundraising Gala
Soo Visual Arts Center, 2022
The Names We Change, Solo Exhibition
Rochester Art Center, 2021-2022
The Names We Change, Solo Exhibition
Rochester Art Center, 2021-2022
Visual Language, Art at 801 Gallery, Minneapolis, 2021
(Un)Natural Boundaries and Borders, juror/curator, Silverwood Park, Minneapolis, 2021
Sustenance, Group Exhibition,
Anderson Center at Tower View, Red Wing, 2021
Hardscapes, Parks Exhibition Center,
Idyllwild Arts Academy, CA, 2021
2020/2021 MCAD-Jerome Fellow Interview: Katayoun Amjadi
Twin Cities Iranian Culture Collective
Hopkins Art Center, 2021
Connections, collaboration with Hend Al-Mansour,
Rosalux Gallery, 2021
Art Is My Weapon, Group Exhibition
Minnesota African American Heritage & Museum, 2021
S/WORD, Alice R. Rogers and Target Galleries,
Saint John’s Art Center, SJU, 2021
Recipient of the 2020/21 MCAD–Jerome Foundation Fellowships for Early Career Artists
Get Lucky 2021, The Stay at Home Edition,
Soo Visual Arts Center, 2021
Quarantine Edition Studio Visit with Golshid Mola of ALANGOO.com, 2020
Politically Engaged Art Amid Multiple Pandemics :Webinar, 2020
Panel discussion with UMN anti-war coalition on Iran sanctions,
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis 2020
Artist Residency open studio event at St. John University,
Collegeville, 2020
Let There Be Spaces in Your Togetherness,
Soo Visual Art Center, Minneapolis, 2019
Cartography of Desire, Curated Exhibition
The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, St. Paul, 2020
The Things that make The Things | A Bunch of Chickens and a Toilet Brush,
Solo exhibition at Carleton College, Northfield, 2019
1 Roof 2 Airs at South Dakota Museum of Art,
Brookings, South Dakota, 2019
Studio: HERE Artist in Residence, Minnesota State Art Fair, 2019
Possibilities at Alt Space, Minneapolis, 2019
Selections: Contemporary Art at Revere Auctions, St. Paul, 2019
Iranian Culture Week at Artspace Jackson’s Flats, Minneapolis, 2019
DIALOGUE Art Exhibition at the New Rules, St. Paul, 2019
Eyes Should be Washed performance at Plains Art Museum, Fargo, 2019
The House | The Yard, MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery,
Regis Center for Art, 2019
THIRTY THREE VIEWS at the Second Shift Studio Space, St. Paul, 2019
Katayoun Amjadi/Erin Smith: Lost and Found in conversation with Christina Schmid, 2019
Katayoun Amjadi/Erin Smith: Lost and Found Exhibition Review,
Hair & Nails Gallery, Issue #17, 2019
Sculpture &Ceramics Area Faculty & Graduate Student Exhibition, Quarter Gallery, 2019
The exhibition coincides with Claytopia, the 53rd Annual National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Conference
Heart Land Stories, NCECA Conference, Q2 Gallery, Q.arma Building, 2019
The exhibition coincides with Claytopia, the 53rd Annual National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Conference
Wintertide Biannual Juried Exhibition at Public Functionary, 2019
Lost & Found: Katayoun Amjadi & Erin Smith, Hair+Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, 2019
The exhibition coincides with Claytopia, the 53rd Annual National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Conference
Foodways Group Exhibition at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2018
Home Inside Out Group Exhibition at Waiting Room @ Gallery 71, 2018
Art-A-Whirl Participant Artist at the Q.arma Building, Studio B25, 2018
Force Majeur | Altered Esthetics Film Festival, Strike Theater, 2018
Short Film Screening with WAM Collective, Weisman Art Museum, 2018
National Student Juried Exhibition, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Pittsburg Center for the Arts, 2018
Domestic Affairs, solo exhibition at Harry M. Drake Gallery, Saint Paul Academy, 2018
Small Objects: Part 1 Group Exhibition at Lacuna Gallery, 2017
An interview with Milwaukee Public Radio about Transplant Eyes exhibition, 2017
Transplant Eyes at Walker’s Point Center for the Arts (co-curated with John Schuerman), 2017
Andy Warhol: Minnesota Goes Pop at Rochester Art Center, 2017
In dialogue with curator, Shiela Dickinson part of Popular Culture in Art Today at the Rochester Art Center, 2017
Working forces curated by Jehra Patrick at the Soap Factory, 2016
Selected Works curated by Tricia Heuring at Public Functionary, 2016
Transplant Eyes at Instinct Gallery (co-curated with John Schuerman), 2016
Art-A-Whirl Participant Artist at the Q.arma Building, Studio B25, 2016
Exileware: Persian Diaspora & Pottery in Minnesota at Q.arma Building, 2015
Subjective Objects at Tina Blondell Studio, 2015
Art-A-Whirl Participant Artist at the Q.arma Building, Studio B25, 2015
Mirror/Window screening, Altered Esthetics House Film Festival at the Southern Theater, 2015
Recipient of Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant, 2015
Mirror Window at Minneapolis Photo Center, 2013
Heavy: The Metal Show at Instinct Art Gallery, 2014
