Pedram Sazesh 

(b. Rome, Italy)

EDUCATION

2019-2021 De Ateliers, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2012-2017 B.F.A., Cooper Union, New York, NY

2011-2012 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS

RESIDENCIES

2024 Triangle, New York, USA 

2022 Artist Research Lab, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como Italy

2017 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

2015 Yale Norfolk Summer School of Music and Arts, Norfolk, CT

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2024 [solo] “It’s a bright burrow” replied the wasp, Kate, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, England 

2023 Low Clearance, PTT Space, Taipei, Taiwan

Mutter Biennale “Halloween”, Mutter, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2022 Come Hell or High Water, Mutter, Amsterdam, Netherlands (collaborated on a work with Rosario Aninat & Simon Shim Sutcliffe)

Hypernuit, Martin Van Zomeren, Amsterdam, Netherlands 

Moveable Types x Snooperverse, HISK Exhibition Space, Brussels, Belgium

2021 [solo] Always Hallways [Epilogue to the Aerodynamic-Monument], De Ateliers, Amsterdam, Netherlands 

2019 A Flatlining Shrill, Laurel Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Between the Two Columns, Institute Cervantes, Marrakech, Morocco

(collaborative project with Emmanuela Soria Ruiz)

A Mobius Strip on the Sand, 934 Gallery, Columbus, OH 

(Sujung Chang)

2016 Negative Horizon, The Cooper Union, New York, NY 

(solo exhibition)

Green Dust, PAGE (NYC), New York, NY

(Will Shea)

Group Show, PAGE (NYC), New York, NY

Like a Perhaps Hand, 41 Cooper Gallery, Cooper Union, New York, NY

(Matt Ledwidge & Minh Bui)

Act 2 Scene 1*, The Yellow Zone, Richmond, VA

(Cameron Spratley & Adam Amram)

ARTIST TALKS

2023 R.I.S.D., Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA (Two artist talks for the painting department)

2021 Club Solo, Breda, Netherlands 

ACADEMIC HONOURS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS

2024 Development Grant, Amarte, Netherlands

International Voucher, Mondrian Funds, Netherlands

2023 First Time Project Grant, Amsterdam Funds Kunst 

Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council

2022 Professional Development for Artists, Canada Arts Council

2017 Jacque and Natasha Gelman Foundation Award, Cooper Union, New York

2017 Alex Katz Matching Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

2015 The Ellen Battell Stoeckel Painting Fellowship, Yale University, Norfolk, CT

PUBLICATIONS

2023 on my belly/on my back (catalogue publication), Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como / Compagnia London

2021 Offspring 2022 Catalogue, Always Hallways, De Ateliers, Amsterdam

2019 The Vanishing Point of Verification with Sujung Chang, self-published, New York(http://www.changsujung.com/thevanishingpointofverification.html)

2014 Benjamin Menschel Exhibition Catalogue, Cooper Union, New York, NY

https://cooper.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/assets/development/MenschCat_2014.pdf