BORN
1954, Tehran, Iran
Lives and works in Seattle
EDUCATION
1985, BS Computer Management, West Virginia Institute of Technology
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2002 William Traver Gallery, Seattle
1997 Palos Verdes Art center, Palos Verdes, CA
Pierce Art Gallery, WVIT, Montgomery, WV
1996 Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
L.A. Artcore, The Art Bank, Los Angeles
Wiesman Gallery, Rouge Community College, Grants Pass, OR
L.A. Artcore, The Brewery Annex, Los Angeles
1994 The gallery at the Lab Anti-Mall, Costa Mesa, CA
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art(OCCCA) Santa Ana, CA
1992 Konnie K Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
2001 Commencement Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA
2000 Gallery Bershad, Boston
1994 Mythos Gallery, Los Angeles
1993 The Art Store, Costa Mesa, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago
2002 William Traver Gallery, Seattle
2001 The Seattle Art Museum Rental and Sales Gallery, Seattle
Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle
1999 Evolving perception99, A Salon, Washington DC
Desiderata, Los Angeles
Linda Warren Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Albert Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles
1998 Lantern of the east, 5th International Art Festival, Pyong Taek Cultural Center
1997 Los Angeles International Art Festival, Los Angeles
Lantern of the East, 3rd International Art Festival, Pyong Taek City Museum, Korea
Museum Sampler, City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
MSU National Juried Exhibition of Small works, Montclair State University, NJ
Southern California Open Juried Exhibition, Laguna Art Museum, CA
1996 Lantern of the East, 1996, New Dehli International Art Festival, New Dehli, India
Unsettelingly Sureal, Century Gallery, Sylmar, CA
1995 Scene/Unseen, Eastern New Mexico University, NM (catalog, award)
Strictly Sculpture, OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA (award)
Works of the spirit, The Masters Studio, Pasadena, CA (award)
Really Recent Surrealism, DaVinci Gallery, Los Angeles City College, CA
In the Black, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State Los Angeles (catalogue)
Blissful Blasphemy, Lynn/Bassett Gallery, Los Angeles
Mythos Gallery, Los Angeles
Orlando Gallery, Los Angeles
1994 Art L.A. 94, Los Angeles Convention Center, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sales and Rental Gallery, Los Angeles
Power of Creativity, Ark Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Artwalk 94, San Diego, CA
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Carte Blanche, Brea Civic Center, Brea, CA
Caged Chameleon Gallery, Four Artists, Santa Ana, CA
Artists of Costa Mesa at the LAB, Costa Mesa, CA
OCCCA at Cypress College, Cypress, CA
Orange County Focus IV, Orange county Airport, Santa Ana, CA
1993 All California Juried Exhibition, San Diego Museum of Art, CA
Juror: Jo Farb Hernandez, Director, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art (award)
All Media 93 Annual Juried Exhibition, Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine CA,
Juror: Noel Korton, Director, L.A. Municipal Art Gallery (award)
Eros, Caged Chameleon Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
1991 Robert Lynch Gallery, Corona Del Mar, CA
Crystal Court, Santa Ana, CA
Awards & Residency
1998 Lantern of the East Art Camp Residency, Pyong Taek, Korea
1995 Honorable Mention, Scene/Unseen, EMNU, NM
Honorable Mention, Strictly Sculpture, OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA
Honorable Mention, The Master’s Studio, Pasadena, CA
1993 First place (cash award), Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine, CA
Distinctive Merit Juror Award, San Diego Art Museum, CA
Reviews/Articles
2001 Gutner, Lisa. “Small can be beautiful", Tacoma Reporter, October 18-24.
1996 Decker, Edith. "painter evokes mystical images”, Grants Pass Daily Courier, May 2.
Woodard, Josef. “Exhibit use of the surreal goes easy on the senses”, L.A. Times, February 22.
__________. “Ins and Outs of Artist’s varied works”, L.A. Times, February 1.
__________. “Area’s Talent Promises Diverse Art Landscape for the coming year,” L.A. Times January 4.
1995 Woodard, Josef. “Sampler Substitutes Surreal for Sentiment”, L.A. Times, Dec 21.
Walsh, Daniella. “Strictly Contemporary”, OC Weekly, Oct 20-26.
1994 Feature: “The Mystical Visions of Hamid Zavareei”, Juxtapoz Art Magazine (premier issue), Winter 1994.