+ CV
Education
2025 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
2019 Master of Fine Arts, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
2013 Bachelor of Arts, Painting Major, Soore University of Art, Tehran, Iran
2008 Associate Degree in Graphic Design, Karaj Institute of Higher Education, Karaj, Iran
2006 Diploma in Graphic Design, Golshan High School, Tehran, Iran
Solo and Two-Person Exhibition
2026 Belly Laugh at a Funeral, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
2024 That Lost Folio Vol. II, Pond Gallery, Fayetteville, AR
Recite a Poem When Feeling Hopeless, Conkling Gallery, Minnesota State University-Mankato, MN
That Lost Folio, Morrison Galler, University of Minnesota, Morris, MN
2023 The Beloved One Who Left, MCAD MFA Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN
2022 With Tear, Sequoyah Hall in Mount Sequoyah Center for Arts, Fayetteville, AR
2021 The Glitched Home, Site-Specific Installation for the Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR
Caged Bird and the Blue Room, Presented by Art Venture at Faulkner Performing Art Center, Fayetteville, AR
2020 The Thing with Feathers, Invernadero Artist-run Gallery, CA
Hope the Wind Rises– A Part of Imaginative Gardens, The II Platform, Fayetteville, AR & London, UK
Bleeding Into Space, Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN
Poetics of Places, Two-Person exhibition with Suzannah Schreckhise, 211 South Gallery, Bentonville, AR
2019 When They Sing a Song of Joy with Sorrow, MFA Thesis Show, Fine Art Center Gallery, Fayetteville, AR
Group Exhibition
2025 Jerome Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN
2024 So Far, So Close, Q.Underground Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2023 Soft Power,Curated by Danielle Hutch, Springdale, AR
2022 Faculty Biennial Exhibition and Forum, MCAD Main Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
A Room of One's Own, Curated by Shahrzad Jahan, Soo Contemporary Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Group Exhibition, Holsum Gallery, Independence, MO
2021 The Joy of Painting, Curated by Kiarash Alimi, Dastan Basement Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Elevate Series, 21C Museum, Curated by Danny Baskin, Bentonville, AR
Embellishment as Endurance – Part of From Bread to Cake, Curated by The II Platform, IR, and the UK
In Search of Ourselves, We Find Each Other, Curated by Kalyn Barnoski, Bentonville, AR
2020 Mapping Out A Field, Curated by Maryam Ghoreishi, Zanbeel Art
A Common Thread: Textiles Past and Present, Curated by Jennifer Smith, The Arts Center of Greenwood, SC
Color in the Round, Mount Sequoyah Center, Curated by Jessica Debari, Fayetteville, AR
Resemblance, Soo Contemporary Gallery, Curated by Fatemeh Kazemi, Tehran, Iran
House Party, Binder Project, Online Show, Memphis, TN
Executive Orders, Online collaboration with The II Platform, London, UK
Amorphous Objects, Ghost Art Project, Online Exhibition
Sewn In: a Look at Contemporary Fiber Arts, Fenix Gallery, Fayetteville, AR
Pensacola Museum of Art Members Show, Pensacola Museum, Pensacola, FL
The 57th Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum, Monroe, LA
Portrait: Identity and Expression, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, New York, NY
Typos + Spills + Broken Glass, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Cross-Sections: MFA Online Exhibition
No Center Line, Curated by Josh Loeser, Sequoyah Hall, Fayetteville, AR
Night Garden, yngspc-nightgarden.com, Online Exhibition
Feel The Burn, Mim Gallery, LA
Year Two: Green, Bentonville, AR
Pensacola Museum of Art Members Show, Pensacola Museum, Pensacola, FL
Hands-On: A Collective Haptic Perspective, Pancake House, Minneapolis, MN
Bloom, Sykes Gallery, Millersville University, PA
2018 Artists and Locations,CICA Museum, South Korea
Nefelibata, Indiana University Kokomo Downtown Gallery, Kokomo, IN
2017 Float to the bottom, Sink to the top, sUgAR Art Gallery, Fayetteville, AR
Absolute Zero, Lalaland Gallery, Fayetteville, AR
2016 Running Toward Dreams, sUgAR Art Gallery, Fayetteville, AR and Negar Gallery Tehran, Iran
(A touring exhibition participating Iranian and American young artists)
Persian Gardens, Aaran Projects, Tehran, Iran
2015 Small Pictures, Aria Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014 The Rabbit Hole, Mehrva Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013 Revolver, Raf Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Awards
2025 DAG Prize in Visual Art, DAG Foundation
2024 Project Grant for a Curatorial Project, The Twin Cities Iranian Culture Collective
2023 Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Early Career Artists
2019 Artist 360, Student Artist Grant, Mid-America Arts Alliance
Summer Research Grant, The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Project Grant, The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Vermont Studio Center Residency Award, The University of Arkansas School of Art, Fayetteville, AR
2018 New Outstanding ICT Member Scholarship, The University of Arkansas, International School, Fayetteville, AR
Anderson Ranch Residency Award, The University of Arkansas School of Art, Fayetteville, AR
Residency
2026 Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Green Box Art, Green Mountain Falls, CO
2025 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
2023 Terrain Residency, Springfield, IL
2019 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2018 Anderson Ranch Art Center, Aspen, CO
Public Art
2023 The Longing, Terrain Public Art Biennial, IL & MN
2022 Birds and Dogwoods: a Fiber Installation, Mount Sequoyah Center for Arts, Fayetteville, AR
2021 This Is Your Public Library, a public art piece for the Bentonville Public Library
Curatorial Projects, Juror, Panelist
2024 Curated: So Far, So Close, Q.Underground Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Panel Reviewer for the Catalyze Grant sponsored by Mid-America Arts Alliance and the Windgate Foundation
Juror for In. Art Show, Hallberg Center for the Arts, Wyoming, MN
2023 Panel Reviewer for the Catalyze Grant sponsored by Mid-America Arts Alliance and the Windgate Foundation
2021 Juror for Thomas Hart Benton Art Competition, Neosho, MO
2020 Juror for Plein Air Painting Competition, The Heart of American Artists’ Association, Siloam Springs, OK
2019 Curated: UTK @ UARK, Exchange Exhibition, SCUL Gallery, Fayetteville, AR
Curated: SEEING THROUGH, Juried and Co-curated with Minah Kim, Sugar Gallery, Fayetteville, AR
2018 Curated: Alter-Sphere, sUgAR Gallery, Fayetteville, AR
2016 Co-Curated: Running Toward Dreams, Co-curated with Maryam Amirvaghefi, sUgAR Gallery, Fayetteville, AR & Negar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014 The Rabbit Hole Project, Mehrva Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013 Co-founder of Rabbit Hole Group, Tehran, Iran
Artist Talk and Workshops
2025 VISCERA::POETICS, in collaboration with THE::SENSE::ARCHIVE, Princeton University, NJ
Artist Talk, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
Artist Panel, MCAD Gallery, Panelist: Juleana Enright
2024 Artist Talk at Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN
Q.Underground Gallery, Panelist: Aida Shahghasemi
2022 Professional Practices Series, Sponsored by MCAD MFA Program, Minneapolis, MN
Pecha Kucha, Modus Studio, Fayetteville, AR
2021 Guide Program Series, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Adult Workshop: Photo Transfer Printing, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Art Night Out, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Spring Arts and Cultural Festival, Northwest Arkansas Community College
2020 Mapping Out A Field, Zanbeel Art
VirtualArt By Glass, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Selected Press and Publication
2024 MN Artist, Ziba Rajabi: Poetry and Home, Spring 2024
Iranian artist Ziba Rajabi stitches her native tongue, MSU Reporter, Spring 2024
National cigarettes, banned pop songs and memory oceans, MPR News, Fall 2024
2023 MN Artist, Identity, Art, and Responsibility: An Artist’s Journey in Diaspora, Fall 2023
2022 Creative Independent, On Making Sense of Yourself Through Your Work, Fall 2022
Darz Online Magazine, Ziba Rajabi in Conversation with Shahrzad Jahan, Aug. 2022
2021 Brink No.2, Fall 2021
The Number.Inc Magazine, Under the Rug: an interview with Ziba Rajabi by Nuveen Barwari
21C Museum Hotel, Artist Check-in: Ziba Rajabi
NWA Democrat-Gazette, Four Minutes Four Questions: Artist Ziba Rajabi
2020 The Idle Class: Winter 2020 - The Makers Issue, Sewn Together
Under The Bridge, Issue 5, Concentric Series
NWA Democrat-Gazette, In Stitches: Artists sew their souls into Fenix exhibition
NWA Democrat-Gazette, Makers' Round-Up: Kellie Lehr, Ziba Rajabi both create in paint
Interview with Studio Break Podcast
Under The Bridge, Winter 2020, Painting
2019 NWA Democrat-Gazette, Iranian artist builds cultural bridges through art,
UARK Newswire, SoArt Presents M.F.A Thesis Exhibition, Ziba Rajabi: 'When they sing a song of joy with sorrow
Young Space, Interview with Ziba Rajabi
2016 Running Toward Dreams underway in Tehran, Iran Daily, 23rd May
2014 Rabbit Hole Project Review at Mehrva Gallery, Tandis Magazine, Aug, N0.280, p.5
2013 8 Peers Revolver, Weekly Review on Galleries, Tandis Magazine, May, No.248, p.6