Hadi Tabatabai was born in Mashhad, Iran, in 1964. He immigrated to the United States in 1977 with his family and has since settled in California. Tabatabai received a B.S. in industrial technology at Fresno State University (1980-1985) and a B.F.A. in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute (1993-1995).

Tabatabai's work has shown widely in London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Philadelphia. He has had solo exhibitions at the Anthony Grant Gallery, New York; the Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco and the James Nicholson Gallery, San Francisco, to name a few. His work can also be found in collections such as The Achenbach Foundation at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Progressive Corporation, U.S.A. and Wynn Kramarsky, New York, among others.

Tabatabai was an artist in residence at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2005) and is currently an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California.

EXHIBITIONS

Galleri Hornbaek, Hornbaek, Denmark
Miniatures
December 2007

Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
Daruni
September 2006

Anthony Grant Gallery, New York
Interior spaces
October-December 2005

James Nicholson Gallery, San Francisco, California
New Work
November 2004

Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
Introductions
July 2000

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

Gallery Joe, Philadelphia
Gridlock
June 2006

Gallery Joe, Philadelphia
Series
December 2005-February 2006

Patrick Heide Art Projects, London
Drawings & Works on Paper II
Selected artists from the US
November 2005-February 2006

Anthony Grant Gallery, New York
Repeat Performance
June-September 2005

Anthony Grant Gallery, New York
Woodwork
June-August 2004

Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California
Current Holdings: Bay Area Drawing / Bay Area Collections
September-January 2001

Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, California
July 2001

Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, California
January 2000

AWARDS AND HONORS

Kala Art Institute Artist in Residence
Berkeley, California, 2007 (upcoming)

Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, California, 2006-2007

ASIA Alive Artist in Residence, Asian Art Museum
San Francisco, California, March 2005

SFMOMA SECA award semi-finalist
San Francisco, California, 2004

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hadi Tabatabai. "Winter of 1995," Works + Conversations, no. 10, (Summer 2005) pp. 36-37

Hadi Tabatabai. "Winter of 1995," Likovne Besede/Artwords 69-70, (Winter 2004) pp. 118-119

Maryam Ovissi. "Journey Between Cultures-Iranian Artists in America," Eastern Art Report, no. 48 (January 2003), pp. 17-19.

Mark Van Proyen. "San Francisco e-mail," Art Issues (September/October 2000), pp. 42-43.

Ucef Hanjani. "Hadi Tabatabai," SOMA, (September 2000), pp.51-59.

Jesse Hamlin. "Art's a Fine Line for Hadi Tabatabai," San Francisco Chronicle (Datebook), Wednesday, July 5, 2000, pp. D1, D7.