NASSEM NAVAB
Digital Media + Installation Art
b 1991
EDUCATION
2019 University of Arizona, M.F.A. Photography | Video | Imaging
2014 University of California, San Diego, B.A. Interdisciplinary Computing Arts and Media
REPRESENTATIONS
Yun Gee Park Gallery, Tucson, AZ | Gallery Website
EXHIBITIONS
2021 In The Field: Graduates from UA School of Art, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ.
In Good Company, Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA.
SD Practice, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA.
San Diego International Airport, San Diego, CA - July 2021 - July 2022.
2020 AiR+ Artists in Residence Exhibit, Art Produce Gallery - San Diego, CA
New Domestics, Franconia Sculpture Park Gallery, Shafer, MN.
Flesh Spaces, New Media Caucus Gallery Header/Footer, Online exhibition.
Grasping fragments or Otherwise Calculating Distance, Visual Art Center, Austin, TX.
2019 Digital Video, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
C-Note, San Diego Art Insitute, San Diego, CA
States of Matter, Yun Gee Park Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Oaxaca Film Festival, Oaxaca, MX
From Here to Eternity, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tucson, AZ
Absher/Rejoice!, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tucson, AZ
Masters of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Joseph Gross Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2018 Digital Disobedience: The Algorithm as Saboteur, CFA Downtown Studio, UNM, Albuquerque, NM
Theory and Practice of Third Space, Lionel Rombach Gallery, UofA, Tucson, AZ
5 min Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tucson, AZ
Collect, Recollect, Steinfeld Warehouse Community Arts Center, Tucson, AZ
Before Hours, The Loft Cinema, Tucson, AZ
2017 5 min Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Arts, San Diego, CA
Cover Protect Decorate, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Tucson, AZ
By Now We Are There, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tucson, AZ
Videohouse II, Deslave Gallery, Tijuana, MX
On the Same Boat, Boathouse Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Cinco or Swim, Graduate Gallery, UofA, Tucson, AZ
Blink Twice, The Loft Cinema, Tucson, AZ
By Now We Are There, Graduate Gallery, UofA, Tucson, AZ
MFA Semester One, Lionel Rombach Gallery, UofA, Tucson, AZ
2016 Someone To Ride The River With, Lionel Rombach Gallery, UofA, Tucson, AZ
Someone To Ride The River With, Harry Wood Gallery, ASU, Tempe, AZ
Someone To Ride The River With, CFA Downtown Studio, NMU, Albuquerque, NM
2015 Borderland Noise, Mous Tache, Tijuana, MX
Sueños de Cuerpos, The Raw Space, San Diego, CA
2014 BA Graduate Show, Mandeville Annex Gallery, UCSD, San Diego, CA
WORKSHOPS
2018 Experimental Animation & Video with Code, Casey Reas, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2018 Albert M Haldeman Photo Scholarship, Tucson, AZ.
Medici Scholar Award, UofA, Tucson, AZ.
Helen Gross Award, UofA, Tucson, AZ.
2017 Albert M Haldeman Photo Scholarship, Tucson, AZ.
George Grant Memorial Photography Scholarship, Tucson, AZ.
Medici Scholar Award, UofA, Tucson, AZ.
PUBLICATIONS
2018 Peace & Place, You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography.
ARTIST TALKS AND EVENTS
2018 You Are Here Journal 20th Anniversary Issue, UofA, Tucson, AZ. Invited
18th Annual Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern and North African Studies, UofA, Tucson, AZ
Events, Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon, Poetry Center, UofA, Tucson, AZ
2017 Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Tucson, AZ. Invited
2016 <T> Here. CEART Tijuana, Tijuana, MX. Invited
2015 Concept and Issues, ART 201: Objects and Ideas, Mira Costa College, San Diego, CA. Invited
SERVICE
2019 Organizer, Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon UofA, Tucson, AZ.
2018 Organizer, Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon UofA, Tucson, AZ.
Organizer, Women’s Hackathon, UofA, Tucson, AZ.
2017-18 Infuse, MFA Studio Coordinator, UofA, Tucson, AZ.
2015-16 Project P.A.I.N.T., Assistant, Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, San Diego, CA.
2011-14 Books For Prisoners, Board Member, UCSD, San Diego, CA.