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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:
‘Gut Feelings 2.0’, Grand Union, Birmingham, June 2025-August 2025
‘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
Selected 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
Shasha Movies, Queer Cinema Programme, 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
Teaching:
Associate lecturer, BA Performance: Design and Practice, Central Saint Martins, 2018-2023
Press:
A History Felt in The Gut, Maya Abuali, Dazed Mena
Kasra Jalilipour’s Fragments of Truth and Fiction, Evar Hussayni, Azeem, 2023
Saint Agatha as a Boy, D Mortimer, Texte Zur Kunst, 2023