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Kasra Jalilipour (b.1995, Esfahan) is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist, writer and educator, based in Derbyshire, UK.
Education:
Post Graduate Certificate: Teaching in Art, Design and Communication (AFHEA), 2021
BA, Performance: Design and Practice, Central Saint Martins, 2017
Art and Design Foundation, CCW: Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon, 2014
Awards and Bursaries:
a-n Freelands Foundation Bursary, 2025
Arts Council England, National Lottery Project Grant, 2024
Jerwood New Work Fund, 2023
Ingram Prize (Finalist), 2022
Circa x Dazed Class of 2022 (Finalist), 2022
Live Art Development Agency, Katherine Araniello Bursary, 2020
Arts Council England, Emergency Fund, 2020
Jerwood Arts Bursary, 2020
Residencies:
Arts Admin, Toynbee Studios, London, 2024
Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, 2023
Pedreira, Porto, Portugal, 2023, View here
11:11 Residency, Online, 2023
Centre for Live Art Yorkshire, Leeds, 2023
The Level Centre, Rowsley, 2023
Eastside Projects, Summer Camp, Birmingham, 2022
Trinity Square Video, Toronto, 2021
ArcadeCampfa, Cardiff, 2021, View Here
Directing:
Apocrypha of The Later Saints, Written and Directed by Kasra Jalilipour, Commissioned by Centre for Live Art Yorkshire, 2024
Solo Exhibitions:
‘Kasra Jalilipour’, Haarlem Artspace Gallery, Wirksworth Festival, Wirksworth, September 2024
‘Reliquary’, Gasleak Mountain, Nottingham, 2024
‘Beastly Love’, ArcadeCampfa with BayArt, Cardiff, 2023
‘Studies of Saint Agatha as a Boy, No 5’, Window Exhibiton at Centre for Live At Yorkshire, Leeds, 2023
Academy of Fine Art Gallery (GAVU), Prague, Czech Republic, 2018
Selected Group Exhibitions:
‘My Garden’s Boundaries are the Horizon’, de Apple, Amsterdam, 2024-2025
‘Pretty Doomed’, Ugly Duck, London, October, 2023
‘Mnemonic silences, disappearing acts’, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, Until June 2024
‘Letter Like Shapes Word Like Sequences’, Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London, July-September 2023
‘Intra’, Camp Trans, Ugly Duck, London, 2023
‘Perishing Thirst’, Quench Gallery, Margate, 2022
Ingram Collection Prize, Unit 1 Gallery, London, 2022
‘Touch Me Baby’, Bad Art Presents, Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, 2022
‘Summer Camp’, Eastside Projects Member's Show, Birmingham, 2022
‘برده’،Bomuldsfabriken:Artendal, Arendal, Norway, 2022
‘Archival Affections’, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, 2021
‘The Rebel Dykes: Art and Archive Show’, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 2021
‘The Rebel Dykes: Art and Archive Show’, Space Station 65, London, 2021
Salon Gallery, The Wing Soho, London, 2019
VFD10:Punish the Streets, New Art Projects, London, 2019
Spread, Grrrl Zine Fair, Arcadecampfa, Cardiff, 2019
Lesley Magazine Launch, Horse Hospital gallery, London, 2019
Paradise Underground, Guise Collective, Sugar Cane, London, 2018
Central Saint Martins, Degree Show, London, 2017
‘Heroin’, Square Gallery, London, 2017
‘I Will Hold Your Gaze’, Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College Art, London, 2017
Queer Art(ists) Now, The Mill Project, London, 2017
Selected Group Performances and Screenings:
My Garden’s Boundaries Are the Horizon, Filmtheater Kriterion x de Appel, Amsterdam, 2025
Globale Mittelhessen, Marburg, Germany, 2023
CHASM, Open Studios, Centre for Live Art Yorkshire, Leeds, 2023
Flying Broom International, Ankara, Turkey, 2023
Vienna Shorts, Another Gaze, Vienna, Austria, 2023
Sinematek Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey,2023
Filmfest Dresden, Dresden, Germany, 2023
Cineclub Amora, New York, 2023
From Rosa to Simone, International Feminist Film Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2023
Films From Iran For Iran, Another Gaze, Anthology Film Archives, New York, 2023
Films From Iran For Iran, Another Gaze, ICA, London, 2022
Circa x dazed class of 2020, Piccadilly Lights (London), Limes Kurfurstendamm (Berlin), Coex K-Pop Square (Seoul), Fed Square (Melbourne), 2022
TAPE Collective, BFI Southbank, 2022
Selected 11, videoclub X FLAMIN, UK Tour: Nottingham Contemporary, Fabrica Gallery (Brighton), Phoenix (Leicester), Spike Island (Bristol), 2021
Cryptofiction, Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s curation programme, Virtual, 2021
Shasha Movies, Queer Cinema Programme, Virtual, 2021
Take Me Somewhere Festival: Buzzcut Festival, Virtual, 2021
CHASM, Mystical Femmes, Duo performance, Centre for Live Art Yorkshire, Virtual, 2020
Queer MENA Film Festival, Habibi Collective x ShakoMako, Virtual, 2020
Cinema of Sisterhood, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2019
Scottish International Queer Film Festival (Official Selection), Glasgow, 2019
Queer Connections, Camden People's Theatre, London, 2019
Self-Protection Manifesto, Shadow Sistxrs, ICA, London, 2018
Teaching:
Associate lecturer, BA Performance: Design and Practice, Central Saint Martins, 2019-2023
Creative Union, Cross disciplinary, Week 1, Central Saint Martins, 2023
Goldsmiths University, BA Fine Art and History of Art, Visiting Artist Tutorials, London, 2022
Associate lecturer, Term 1, BA Fine Art: Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, 2020
Visiting practitioner, Performance: Design and Practice, Central Saint Martins, 2018
Writing Workshops:
New Bridge Project, Reading Room, 2024
Queer Youth Art Collective, Queer Circle, London, 2023, 2024
Queer Performance MA at Rose Bruford College, Sidcup, 2023
Print Publications:
Sticky Fingers Publishing, Get Rid of Meaning, Issue 1, 2024
Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, Dear Saint Derek, Derek Jarman solo exhibition catalogue, 2023
Montez Press, Interjection Calendar, Agatha’s Revenge, 2024
Texte zur Kusnt, Trans Perspectives, Image comission, Studies of Saint Agatha as a Boy, No 5, 2023
Sticky Fingers Publishing, FDBNHLLLTTFPARODY, Cool Dad: The Best Dad, 2022
gal-dem Un/Rest Publication: Healing Music and Ancient Heritage, 2019
Louche Magazine Issue 1, 'Genderfvcker: The DIY and Punk Drag Competition', 2019
The Orgasm Issue, Self published zine, Available at Wellcome Collection and Central Saint Martins Library, 2018
Queer Bodies, Shades of Noir, (Editor), London, 2017
Selected Artist Talks:
Films From Iran For Iran, Another Gaze, ICA, London, 2022
Archival Affections, Trinity Square Video, Online, Available here, 2021
Selected 11, Nottingham Contemporary, Online, Available here, 2021
City and Guilds, Fine Art, Visiting artist lecture, London, 2020
Intersectionality of Race & LGBTQ Lecture, Central Saint Martins, London, 2019
Beautiful Fruit: LGBTQI+ artists on challenging normatively, Space Studios, London, 2018
Politics of Looking Film Festival: screening of Persepolis, London College of Communication x ICA, London, 2017
CREN’s 2nd Annual Conference, University of Sheffield Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield, 2016
Radio/Podcast:
Montez Press radio, 40 Bones: Letters from Dungeness to Chicago with D Mortimer, 2024
Jarman Now with New Romney, 2024
Core Values Lecture x Changemakers, CSM Podcast, 2023
Quench Gallery Podcast, How Did You Get Here, Ep 2, 2023
Montez Press Radio, Katayoun Jalilipour: Iranian Folktales, Myths and Monsters, 2022
BBC Radio Asian Network, In Focus, 2016
Online Publications:
gal-dem, LGBTQI+ people are at the forefront of Iran’s revolution, 2022, Read here
Otherness Archive: #TransLifeFreedom: A List of 5 Iranian Films, 2022
Disability Arts, Reinterpreting Culture Through a Queer, Intersectional Lens, 2022
FEMzine, High Pitched and Moist: An Interview with Tami T, 2019
Huffington Post, Non-Binary People Need To Take Charge of Their Own Creative Spaces, 2018
Bustle, Using Makeup To Highlight, Not Hide, 2018
gal-dem, Violence of Being Purposefully Misgendered, 2018
Shades of Noir, Content developer, 2015-17
Features/Interviews:
Kasra Jalilipour’s Fragments of Fiction and Truth, Azeema Mag, 2023, Read here
Texte zur Kunst, Study of Saint Agatha as a Boy, In Conversation with D Mortimer, 2023, Read Here
Thiiird Magazine, Katayoun Jalilipour: Bringing Performance Art To Remote Audiences, 2021
Disability Arts Online, Katherine Araniello Bursary Awards Recipients Announcement, 2021
Accessibility Note Exhibition Catalogue, Interview, Academy of Fine Art Prague, Czech Republic, 2020
i-D, 'All the diverse performers you won't see...', 2019
Granta, D. Mortimer, Masculinity is Leaving the Male Body, 2018
i-D UK: 5 Queer Artists You Need to Know, 2017