BIOGRAPHY

Reza Monahan (b. 1978, Portland, OR) is an Iranian American artist and filmmaker who holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Art Center College of Design and a BFA in Experimental Film and New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute. His studio operates at the seam of language and cinema, a practice he calls Meta-Kinesthetics, which is less concerned with what's disappearing in the world than with the attention our bodies bring to it. Alongside this, having produced several hundred short documentaries and interviews on art, architecture, and related fields, Monahan's media and filmmaking work has taken him to cities throughout North America, partnering with institutions and journals such as NASA/JPL, LACMA, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Mike Kelley Foundation, SculptureCenter, Dezeen and many others. His work for SCI-Arc Channel has been supported by grants provided by the Getty Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Monahan's installation art and speculative films have exhibited in galleries and venues across the globe including UNTITLED Art Fair, Miami, ICALA, Los Angeles, LAGE EGAL Gallery, Berlin, OR Gallery, Vancouver, Anthology Film Archives, NYC, Karma International, Zurich, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, MiM Gallery, Los Angeles and Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, CA. Most recently he co-curated an exhibition titled “Split Diopter 2” at the SCI-Arc Gallery in L.A.'s Arts District and his feature-length screenplay EXTEARIORS received Best Screenplay at the Hollywood Blvd Film Festival and Best Original Screenplay at the Dublin Movie Awards.