Hadi Falapishi

b. Tehran, Iran

Lives and works in New York

Education: 2016 MFA Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY

Solo Exhibitions:

2024

Searchers, The Breakers, Rough Point, Great Friends Meeting House, Newport, RI

2023

Almost There, Whitney Museum, New York

Almost Perfect, Andrew Kreps, New York

2022

As Free As Birds, Centre for Contemporary Art, London, UK

Getting Closer, Champ Lacombe, Biarritz, France

Young and Clueless, The Power Station, Dallas

2021

Young and Clueless, Rodeo, London, UK

Young and Clueless, Rodeo, Piraeus, Greece

2020

Out of the Camera: Beyond Photography, John Young Museum of Art: University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii

Blow Ups, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

Good, Efremidis, Berlin, Germany

Times, Fahrenheit Madrid, Spain

Arrest, Central Fine, Miami, Florida

2019

Almost Alone, TRAMPS, New York

2018

With My Hands Over My Mouth Page Gallery, New York

2017

May Died in June, Delgosha Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Fear Eats the Soul, 67 Ludlow, New York

2016

Everything is True, Kai Matsumiya, New York

2014

Things to Know (Persian Techniques), Dastan Gallery, Tehran, Iran

USPrime, Maryam Harandi Gallery, Tehran


Group Exhibitions:

2024

A Particular Kind of Heaven, Karma Gallery, Maine

Sublime Spirit, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

2023

Pictures Girls Make: Portraitures, curated by Alison M. Gingeras, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles

Motherboy, Curated by Stella Bottai and Gray Wielebinski, Gió Marconi, Milan

2022

A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9, Zwirner Gallery, New York

The Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

2021

Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York

Omelette Papier, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany

Bad Reflections, Planet Earth LLC, Connecticut

2020

100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

Love Letter to a Nightmare, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY

Painting is Paintings Favorite Food, South Etna Gallery, Montauk, New York, NY

Positions on Photography, Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY

New Images of Man, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA

What the Fuck and What a Fuck, Soloway, Brooklyn, NY

Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter, New York, NY

The Blind Man, Socrates Sculpture Park, LI, NY

Revealing, Beirut, Lebanon

She Models For Her, The Shed, New York, NY

When Legacies Become Debts, The Mosaic Rooms, London, UK


Hadi Falapishi (b. 1987, Tehran) lives and works in New York. Falapishi received his MFA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York in 2016. Falapishi’s work was recently included in the 2022 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, Greater New York 2021, MoMA PS1, New York, 100 Drawings from Now at The Drawing Center, New York, 2020, In Practice: Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, 2020, and Open Call, The Shed, New York, 2019. Recent solo exhibitions include The Power Station, Dallas, 2022, Champ Lacombe, Biarritz, 2022, Rodeo, London and Piraeus, 2021. His work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters among other institutions.