BEIZAR ARADINI
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Education:
2017       BFA (Studio), Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

Professional Experience:
2021         
Artist Assistant At Dream Hotel/ Winter 2021
2019         Scenic Artist, Escape Game, Nashville, TN
2018         Lead Artist, Work Refugee Day Art Installation, in collaboration with Oasis Center and 
                        Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN. 
2017         Scenic Artist, Escape Game, Mall of America, Minneapolis, MN
                 Project Assistant, Budweiser Live Painting for Anheuser-Busch Convention, Music City Center
2016         Project Assistant, Paint the City Red (and other colors) Mural,  Nashville, TN
2014         Project Assistant, Planetone Mural, Nashville, TN
2013-15     Art Instructor, Nashville Healing Arts for TMHCA, Nashville, TN

Solo Exhibitions:

2020            Mashallah, Mashallah, Mashallah, Electric Shed, Nashville, TN
Juried Exhibitions:
2021              
Best of Tennessee Craft, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
                        *Best in Show

2018              Between the Seams, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Ill.
                          (Juror: Nnenna Okore)
2017              Cummins Station Student Art Exhibition, Cummins Station, Nashville, TN
                          (Juror: Michael Baggerly)
                     Student Art Alliance Spring Juried Show, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN
                          (Kristi Hargrove)
                          *3rd Place
Selected Exhibitions:
2023          Revive, Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN
                   Do You See It? Well, It Doesn't See You, Leu Gallery, Belmont University, Nashville, TN
                    Identity Crisis: Who Are We Becoming?, Nashville International Airport, Nashville, TN
2022          resilience, Brooklyn Collective Gallery, Charlotte, NC
                   RepresenTENN, Chanel to Chanel, Chattanooga, TN
                   From Fiber, Marnie Sheridan Gallery, Nashville, TN
2021           Bê Welat: The Unexpected Storytellers, nGbk Gallery, Berlin, Germany
                   Welcome Home: Her Liminal Asian-Appalachian Experience, Slocomb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
                   Becoming: Embodiment of Trauma, Displacement and Womanhood, KCKCC, Kansas City, KS
2020          We Count: First-Time Voters, Frist Museum: Conte Gallery, Nashville, TN
                   Paradigm Shift, Julia Martin Gallery, Nashville, TN
2019          Take Refuge, Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN
                   Third Culture Kids, Versa Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
2018          Persona, Tournament Studios, Nashville, TN
                   Bevy 2018, Julia Martin Gallery, Nashville, TN
                   Fresh Blood, Mason Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
                   30 under 30:Director's Choice, Viridian Artists, New York, NY
                   From the Ancient Valley, Casa Azafran, Nashville TN
2017           Rick and Morty, Mulan Szechuan Teriyaki Sauce, McDonalds, Los Angeles, CA
                        *Curated by Dan Harmon (creator of Rick and Morty)
                   In For a Penny, In For $141,490.98, Todd Art Gallery, MTSU, Murfressboro, TN
                   Pressed: A Show of Original Prints, Cumberland Mill Gallery, Nashville TN

Artist in Residency: 
2022      Pentaculum Spring 2022, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2021        Arquetopia International Artist Residency, Urubamba, Peru 
                 Nashville Metro Archives Audiovisual Heritage Center (AVHC), Nashville, TN
 
   
Awards & Scholarships:

2021          Tennessee Craft Scholarship: Professional Development 
2017          Arrowmont/MTSU Full Scholarship, Middle Tennessee State University and                                
                   Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
 
Publications:

2021       Çağdaş sanatta anonim bir isim: Beizar Aradini (An Anonymous Name in Contemporary Art: Beizar Aradini): Gazete duvaR. Art&Culture, Online 
2020       Burnaway, Beizar Aradini at Electric Shed, Online
                Locate Arts, Gallery Visit: Electric Shed, Online
2019        Burnaway, Third Culture Kids: Nuveen Bawari and Beizar Aradini, Online
2018        Native, Issue 73, 2018, Print
                 Collage: A Journal of Creative Expression, Middle Tennessee State University, Honors College, 
                              Issue 26, Fall 2017, Print
                       *Creative Expression Award
 2017        Collage: A Journal of Creative Expression, Middle Tennessee State University, Honors College,    
                             Issue 25, Spring 2017, Print

Lectures, Panels, Visiting Artist, Workshops:
2023    Workshop: Painting with Thread, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
             Artist Talk: History of Contemporary Art, Belmont University, Nashville, TN
             Workshop: Basics to Embroidery, Healing Housing Inc., Franklin, TN
2022   Workshop: Teen ARTlab: Embroidery Patch, Frist Art Museum 
            Workshop: Painting with Thread, Watkins Community Education, Nashville, TN
            Artist Talk and Demo at Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
             Visiting Artist  at Harpeth Hall School, Nashville, TN  
2021    Artist Talk: Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 
            Workshop: Community of Many Faces: Embroidery, Nashville Public Library
            Workshop: Nashville Reads: Printmaking, Nashville Public Library 
            Artist Talk: Belmont University, Nashville, TN
2020   Artist Talk: 16 Days of Feminist Activism, CUNY, New York
             Artist Talk: Alfred University, Sculpture Studies, Alfred, NY  
             We Count: First Time Voters with Beizar Aradini and Drenusha Kolshi, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN
             Art Talk: Kaleidoscope: Art+ Activism, Postmates HQ, Nashville, TN
 
​Attended Workshops:
 2021   Peruvian Textiles: Andean Weaving, Arquetopia International Residency, Urubamba, Peru 

2017     Rise Up! 3D Fiber Techniques Workshop, Instructor Jim Arendt, 
                      Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN

                
 






                         
                     




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