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 blends questions of language and cinema within time-and-space-based projects to unfold ideas surrounding kinesthetics, design and phenomenology. Having produced several hundred short documentaries and interviews on art, architecture, and related fields, Monahan’s media and filmmaking practice 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, 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.