Zaal Art Gallery

Works of Hoda Kashiha bounce between everyday life and the imagery she sets out to produce artworks. The artist meets with difficult moments of her personal and political life through non-linear narrative, dark humor, and mythological, religious, and modern icons. She composes her fragmented narratives by drawing from various references – "from Malevich to Instagram.” Kashiha uses digital tools to draw work and then construct it on canvas, layer upon layer. Nevertheless, this way of fragmenting motifs deals with major contemporary subjects such as persisting gender relations. The body plays a vital role in many of the artist’s works. Through the body, she relates to the world, becomes aware of her desires, and constructs an identity. She projects her personal life and the external world by drawing the body. Being interested in man and woman interaction, she uses various tools (airbrush, i-Pad, stencil) and subjects (body fragments, geometric abstraction) that affect an ambiguity that separates traditional definitions of male-female, resulting in gender fluidity.

Hoda Kashiha solo exhibitions: "I'm Here, I'm not Here" (Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain, Brest, France, 2022) | "In Appreciation of Blinking", Parallel Circuit, Tehran (2021) | ˝Dear St. Agatha I am witness of your tears in the land of tulips˝ (Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, 2020) | ˝Crashed into The Sun˝ (Etemad Gallery, Tehran, 2018) | ˝I Scream Louder Than You˝ (Commonwealth Gallery, Boston, MA, 2014). Hoda Kashiha group participations: "Soft Edge of the Blade" (Frieze Cork Street, London, 2022) | FIAC (Paris, 2021) | "City Prince/sses" (Palais De Tokyo, Paris, 2019) | "The Oil of Pardis", (Balice Hertling Gallery, Paris, 2018) | "Human Condition" (Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, Los Angeles, 2016) | "New Narrative" (Storefront Ten Eyck, Brooklyn, NY, 2015) | New Talent (Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2014) | "Oppositional Realities" (Emerson College Gallery, Boston, MA, 2014) | Sherman Gallery (Boston, MA, 2013) | Boston Young Contemporaries (808 Gallery, Boston, MA, 2013) | "Big Red Shindig" (Mills Gallery, Boston, 2013). She received the Esther B. and Albert S. Kahn Award | Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center Rare Book Prize | Iranian Association of Boston Scholarship | Boston University Women’s Council Scholarship. She was a fellow at MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant at Vermont Studio Center. 

Peybak‭ (‬Peyman Barabadi and Babak Alebrahim Dehkordi‭, ‬both b‭. ‬1984‭, ‬Tehran‭, ‬Iran‭) ‬is the acronym of two artists who have been working together as a‭ "‬unified duo‭" ‬since December 20‭, ‬2001‭. ‬Peybak is mostly well-known for depicting imaginative creatures in a‭ ‬dystopian reverse void‭.‬‮ ‬The duo work on every piece together‭, ‬each taking on different parts until they both declare it finished‭. ‬Peybak's works are inspired by Persian poetry‭, ‬mythology‭, ‬and miniature painting‭.‬

Peybak solo shows with Dastan Gallery: "Xa La" ( +2 Gallery, 2021) | "Zahouk" (Dastan's Basement, 2018) | "Abrakan Éclat" (Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France, 2017) | "Abrakan" (+2 Gallery, 2017) | "Abrakan (Naissance)" (Dastan’s Basement, 2016) | "Abrakan (Naissance)" (Galerie GP & N Vallois, 2015) | "Abrakan's Room" (Dastan's Basement, 2015). Peybak group shows: "Jungle Fever" (Galerie GP & N Vallois. 33 rue de Seine. Paris, 2019) | "Tu dois changer ta vie !." (Tri Postal, Lille, France, 2015) | "Year in Review" (A Dastan:Outside Project. Sam Art. Tehran, 2015) | "Monster’s Room" (Bleu Brut, Domaine Vranken Pommery, Reims, France, 2014) | "The Mine" (Dubai, UAE, 2014) | "Must Be Destroyed" (Sin Gallery, Tehran, 2013). Peybak has participated in the following art fairs: "Mossavar-Nameh" (Art Dubai. Dastan's Basement Booth. Dubai, 2018) | Sydney Contemporary (Dastan's Basement Booth, Sydney, 2017) | "The Sun Rises from the West" (Art Dubai, Dastan’s Basement Booth, 2016) | The Armory Show (Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois Booth, New York, 2016) | FIAC (Grand Palais, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois Booth, Paris, 2016) | Abu Dhabi Art Fair (Abu Dhabi, 2015) | Contemporary Istanbul (Istanbul, 2015) | FIAC (Grand Palais, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois. Paris, 2015).