Forthcoming & Recent
Last Phase screening as part of Living Canvas programme at Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), (Dublin, Ireland) April/May 2025
Screening, series of films 2015-2023, and interview at The Centre for Cultural Initiatives of the University of Seville (CICUS) (Seville, Spain) May 2025
The Golden Mask screening and interview, as part of "Artist in Focus" presented by AEMI, (Dublin, Ireland) April 2025
PATHOS, workshop series at The Glucksman Gallery (Cork, Ireland) March to May 2025
The Magic Circle, collaborative performance at Bethanien TCS Festival (Berlin) November 2024
Artist Residency Cité Internationale des Arts x Institut Francais, Paris (supported by Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, and Bétonsalon, Paris) 2024-2025
Artist Residency Centre Culturel Irlandais (CCI) (Paris) March 2024
Film screening Magic Lantern Film Festival presents "Teatro di Natura" with the Museum of Science and Territory and the Museum Network of Spoleto, on the occasion of the 2024 edition of the Festival della Fauna (Spoleto, Italy) April 2024
Residencies
2024-2025 Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, FRA
2024 Centre Culturel Irlandais (CCI) Paris, FRA
2021 Sirius Art Centre with Karen Power, Mary Nunan & QME Cobh co.Cork IRL
2020 The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick-On-Shannon, Co. Leitrim IRL
2019 The Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Next Generation Arts Council award) at Annaghmakerrig, Co. Monaghan IRL
2016 Lichtenberg Studios with Experimental Film Society, Berlin DEU
2015 The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Co. Monaghan IRL
2014 Amandus Adamson Studio Museum, Paldiski EST
2013 The Guesthouse, Cork IRL
Awards and Commissioned
2024 Arts Council of Ireland, Bursary Award
2024 Commissioned Residency (Temple Bar Gallery and Institut Francais) at Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, FR
2023 Residency Centre Culture Irlandais (CCI), Paris, FR
2023 Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award
2023 Commissioned exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
2022 Commissioned film by Quiet Music Ensemble
2021 IMMA Collection Acquisition fund Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin
2021 Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award
2021 Commissioned exhibition at The Dock Arts Centre
2020 Arts Council of Ireland, Bursary Award
2019-2023 Temple Bar Galleries & Studios, Three Year Membership Studios Award, Dublin
2018 The Unforeseen International Experimental Film Festival, ANTLER (2018) won the special award
2018 Arts Council of Ireland, Next Generation Artists, Bursary Award
2018 Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award
2018 Commissioned exhibition at The LAB Gallery
2017 Culture Ireland
2017 Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award
2017 Arts Council of Ireland, Bursary Award
2017 PLASTIK Festival Award (shortlisted), Dublin IRL
2016 Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award (collaboration - Kirkos Ensemble & EFS)
2016 Arts Council of Ireland, Travel and Training Award
2015-2016 Temple Bar Galleries & Studios, Project Studio Award, Dublin IRL
2015 Commissioned Exhibitions at Aaran Projects & Lajevardi Foundation, Tehran IRN
2014 Arts Council of Ireland, Travel and Training Award
2013 Culture Ireland (as part of EU Presidency International Culture Programme)
Solo Exhibitions and Performances
2024 The Magic Circle, Performance live sound and 16mm projections at Bethanien TCS Festival (Berlin, Germany)
2023
The Magic Circle Exhibition and live performance at Temple Bar Gallery (Dublin, Ireland)
Series of super 8 films from 2015 to 2020, screening at Irish Museum of Modern Art IMMA (Dublin, Ireland)
We Return to Ground, music/dance/film performance event with Karen Power, Mary Nunan & QME at National Concert Hall (Dublin, Ireland)
2022
Exhibition and book launch Atoosa Pour Hosseini 2011-2021 Publication at Oonagh Young Gallery (Dublin, Ireland)
We Return to Ground, music/dance/film performance event with Karen Power, Mary Nunan & QME at The Model (Sligo, Ireland)
2021
Luminous Void, exhibition at Project Arts Centre (Dublin, Ireland)
The Flower People, exhibition at The Dock Arts Centre (Co. Leitrim, Ireland)
2020
Moving Image/Sound performance in collaboration with Vicky Langan at Engage Art Studios Curated by Winter Papers (Galway, Ireland) January
2018
Kinetics in Blue, The LAB Gallery (Dublin, Ireland)
Refining the Senses, Performance at Process Festival (Riga, Latvia)
2017
Wilderness Notes, Kirkos Ensemble & Experimental Film Society (EFS) music & film event at Filmbase (Dublin, Ireland)
2016
Refining the Senses, a moving image and sound performance with Suzanne Walsh at Filmbase (Dublin, Ireland)
2015
MIRAGE, performance at Art Box (Dublin, Ireland)
Clandestine, collaborative performance with Irene Murphy and Mick O'Shea, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (Dublin Ireland)
2013
Seesound, collaborative performance with Strange Attractor at Cork Film Centre Gallery as part of IndieCork Festival (Cork, Ireland)
Luminosity, exhibition at Cork Film Centre Gallery (Cork, Ireland)
Latitude, performance with Mick O'Shea at The Guesthouse (Cork, Ireland)
2010
Immersion in Fore-Time, Hello Operator (Dublin, Ireland)
Your Soft Whispers, MadArt Galley (Dublin, Ireland)
Official Film Festival Selections and Screenings
2024
Antler (2018), screening Magic Lantern Film Festival presents "Teatro di Natura" with the Museum of Science and Territory and the Museum Network of Spoleto, on the occasion of the 2024 edition of the Festival della Fauna (Spoleto, Italy)
2023
The Golden Mask (2020), fsk Kino Oranienplatz (Berlin, Germany)
Mirage (2015), Suspaustas Laikas Festival (Nida, Lithuania)
2022
The Flower People (2021), Wolf Kino (Berlin, Germany)
Antler (2018), Kino Moviemento (Berlin, Germany)
2021
Antler (2018), Jeu De Paume (Paris, France)
Kinetics (2018), Triskel Arts Centre (Cork, Ireland)
Refining the Senses & Gleanings (2017) The Dock Arts Centre (Co. Leitrim, Ireland)
2020
Mirage (2015), Project Arts Centre (Dublin, Ireland)
Intervals (2020), The Dock Arts Centre (Co. Leitrim, Ireland)
Kinetics (2018), Kino Klub Split (Split, Croatia)
2019
Antler (2018), Project Arts Centre Sound Collector (Dublin, Ireland)
Kinetics (2018), 18th LUFF- Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Antler (2018), Cork Midsummer Festival 2019 Burn/Out (Cork, Ireland)
Antler (2018), Taipei Contemporary Art Centre 台北當代藝術中 (Taipei, Taiwan)
Antler (2018), Moving Bodies Festival at Teatro Espace (Turin, Italy)
Antler (2018), Cinemateca Nacional Del Ecuador Ulises Estrella (Quito, Ecuador)
Antler (2018), Revolutions Per Minute Festival RPM FEST at UMass Boston (Boston MA, USA)
Antler (2018), Semaine du Son à Namur Exposition sonore "Hölisme" Aspëkt (Namur, Belgium)
2018
Antler (2018), 63rd Cork Film Festival (Cork, Ireland)
Antler (2018), หอภาพยนตร์ Thai Film Archive (Bangkok, Thailand)
Refining the Senses (2017), WORM Rotterdam (Netherland)
Refining the Senses (2017), Experiments in Cinema EIC2018 (NM,USA)
Last Phase (2014), "Surrealist Voices from Ireland" at Conservatorio Bruno Maderna featival (Cesena, Italy)
Super8 films 2015-2017 at Mmam Museo Arte Moderno Cuenca Ecuador, Cámara Lúcida - Encuentros Cinematográficos (Cuenca, Ecuador)
Refining the Senses (2017), American Medium Gallery (New York, USA)
Refining the Senses (2017), Process Festival (Riga, Latvia)
Super8 films 2015-2017 at Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador (Quito, Ecuador)
Gleanings (2017), ANALOGICA SELECTION 7 (Bolzano & Milano, Barcelona, Mexico City & San Francisc)
2017
Refining the Senses (2017), 62nd Cork Film Festival (Cork, Ireland)
Mirage (2015), Art Works’17 Carlow Arts Festival at VISUAL (Carlow, Ireland)
Refining the Senses (2017), LUFF- Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Gleanings (2017), DOBRA Festival at The Museum of Modern Art (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Refining the Senses (2017), MARFICI- INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL OF MAR DEL PLATA (Plata, Argentina)
Gleanings (2017) International Independent Film Fair of Bogota (Bogotá, Colombia)
Mirage, 19th MOVIATE Underground Film Festival (Harrisburg PA, USA)
Mirage and Clandestine, CineAutopsia Bogotá Experimental Film Festival (Bogotá, Colombia)
Carcass Programme: Relics, UP Film Institute Film Studio (Quezon City, Philippines)
Carcass Programme: HOMO FEROX / CORPUS REX, Bibliotecas Municipais do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
Mirage (2015) PLASTIK Festival at Irish Film Institute (Dublin, Ireland)
Clandestine (2015) 41st Atlanta Film Festival (Atlanta, USA)
Mirage (2015) Process Festival at Kino Bize (Riga, Latvia)
Clandestine (2015) The National Cineteca de México (Mexico City)
Clandestine (2015) UNEXPOSED Film Festival (Durham, NC, USA)
Mirage (2015) First Look Festival at The Museum of the Moving Image (New York, USA)
2016
Clandestine (2015) Berlin Experimental Film Festival (Berlin, Germany)
Clandestine (2015) Maus Hábitos – Espaço de Intervenção Cultural (Porto, Portugal)
Mirage (2015) 23rd Visionaria International Film Festival at Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art De Grada of San Gimignano (Siena, Italy)
Mirage (2015) The Short Circuit (Brighton, UK)
Mirage (2015) Re: Cinema at 10th Sydney Underground Film Festival (Sydney, Australia)
Mirage (2015) Underneath the Floorboards (London, U.K)
Clandestine (2015) Glass Eye Cine Club (Belfast, UK)
Clandestine (2015) FECI - Feria Internacional de Cine Independiente de Bogotá (Bogota, Colombia)
Clandestine (2015) 18th MOVIATE Underground Film Festival (Harrisburg PA, USA)
Clandestine (2015) AEMI Projection at Irish Film Institute (IFI) (Dublin, Ireland)
Mirage, Oasis and Clandestine at Luminous Void exhibition Triskel Arts Centre (Cork, Ireland)
Oasis (2015) Museu de Arte de Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2015
Clandestine (2015) The Museum of Contemporary Art (Tehran, Iran)
Incubus (2013) Altered States (Hastings, East Sussex, UK)
Dimensions (2013) Lichtblick-Kino (Berlin, Germany)
Last Phase (2014) Incubus (2013), Luminosity 2 (2013) at RegenbogenKINO (Berlin, Germany)
Luminosity 1 (2013) Kinodromo (Bologna, Italy)
2014
Incubus (2013) Limited access International Festival, at Aaran Gallery (Tehran, Iran)
Silences (2011) St. Ambrose University (Davenport, Iowa, USA)
Last Phase (2014) Image and Sound Laboratory of State University of Campinas (São Paulo, Brazil)
Last Phase (2014) Fronteira Film Festival (Goiania, Brazil)
Dimensions (2013) Kastav film festival (Kastav, Croatia)
Incubus (2013) The Picture Show (New York, USA)
2013
Seesound 2013, collaboration with Strange Attractor, IndieCork Festival (Cork, Ireland)
2012
Silences (2011) Artists Television Access (San Francisco, USA)
Silences (2011) Cronosfera Festival (Alessandria, Italy)
Another Time (2012) Monster Truck Gallery (Dublin, Ireland)
Then (2011) The Nightingale (Chicago, USA)
Then (2011) The Basement Project Space (Cork, Ireland)
2011
Then (2011) International Streaming Festival (Hague, Netherlands)
Then (2011) Moving Frames Digital Art Festival (Mytilene, Greece)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
The Darkest Hour, show at Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, FR)
2023
Guides, Linenhall Arts Centre (Mayo, Ireland)
2021
20th Anniversary of Experimental Film Society (EFS) at Project Arts Centre (Dublin, Ireland)
The Flower People, The Dock Arts Centre (Co. Leitrim, Ireland)
2018
Refining the Senses (2017), Performance at Process Festival (Riga, Latvia)
Refining the Senses (2017), American Medium Gallery (New York, USA)
2017
Mirage, ART WORKS '17 Carlow Arts Festival at VISUAL (Carlow, Ireland) 7th June - 3rd September
Mirage, Oasis, Clandestine (2015) “Luminous Void” Exhibition at Triskel Arts Centre (Cork, Ireland)
2015
Luminosity (2) "Luminous Void" Project, Lajevardi Foundation (Tehran, Iran)
Semi Dark Room "Luminous Void" Project, Aaran Gallery (Tehran, Iran)
2014
Wind Makes Waves, collaborative project/exhibition at Amandus Adamson Studio Museum (Paldiski, Estonia)
Last Phase (2014) MFA graduate show, NCAD (Dublin, Ireland)
Last Phase (2014) Platform Art (Belfast, UK)
Incubus (2013) Satellite Project Space/Hendrons Collider (Dublin, Ireland)
2013
Dimensions (2013) Pallas Projects/Studios (Dublin, Ireland)
Dimensions (2013) Estonian Academy of Arts Gallery and Da Keldrisaal (Tallinn, Estonia)
2012
Production, collaborative project/exhibition at Monster Truck Gallery (Dublin, Ireland)
2011
Drawn Together, Siena Art Institute (Siena, Italy)
The Open Submission Print Show, Limerick Printmakers (Limerick, Ireland)
2010
Impressions at Galway Arts Centre (Galway, Ireland)
Print, Lorg Printmakers (Galway, Ireland)
Mill Cove Awards Exhibition 2010, Mill Cove Gallery (Cork, Ireland)
Mad Art Gallery (Dublin, Ireland)
The Little Picture Show, Crow Gallery (Dublin, Ireland)
2009
Delicate Digressions, Civic Offices, Wood Quay (Dublin, Ireland)
2005
Drawing, Mani Gallery (Tehran, Iran)
2003
Mosaic Ceramic, Jahan Nama Gallery (Tehran, Iran)
2002
Painting, Mansoureh Hoseiny Gallery (Tehran, Iran)
Education
2014 MA in Fine Art (Media) at National College of Art and Design (Dublin, Ireland)
2009 HND in Fiber Art at Ballyfermot College (Dublin, Ireland)
2007 BA in Fine Art (painting) at Azad University of Art and Architecture (Tehran, Iran)
Publication
2022 "Atoosa Pour Hosseini 2011-2022" book published by Oonagh Young Gallery
2022 "Hours of The Wolf" Zine/artist's book as part of the TBG+S Studio Publications
2020 "Luminous Void Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society" book, edited with Rouzbeh Rashidi and Maximillian Le Cain
2019 Winter Papers book (Ireland) “On Noise, Images, Performance, Life" Atoosa Pour Hosseini and Vicky Langan in Conversation
2018 "Kinetics in Blue" exhibition publication by The LAB Gallery and Dublin City Council
2016 Filmkhaneh magazine (Iran) “Tones of emotion” an article on Barbara Loden's Wanda (1970)
Reviews and Interviews
2024 Totally Dublin, "Plural Possibility" review by TOM Lordan
2023 Visual Artists’ News Sheet (VAI) participant in the article "The Space to Grow" for the 40th anniversary of TBG+S
2022 Visual Artists’ News Sheet (VAI), Reviewed by Joanne Laws
2021 Luminous Void Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society book, articles by Adrian Martin, Vahid Mortazavi, and Sebastian Wiedemann
2019 Visual Artists’ News Sheet (VAI), Interview by Suzanne Walsh
2019 RTÉ "Eyes peeled - eight artists to watch in 2019" by Cristín Leach
2018 The Irish Times, "A mythical, dreamy view of the Blasket Islands" review by Aidan Dunne
2018 EFS Publications, "The Art of Memory Weaving" article by Nikola Gocić
2018 The Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture, “Mirage” article "Immaterial materiality" by Ryszard Dabek. Published by Penn State University Press
2017 Luminous Void Experimental Film Society Documents book, ‘Clandestine’ article "First Principles" by Adrian Martin
2017 Film Panic magazine, Interview
2017 MUBI Notebook, "On Resistance" at First Look 2017, “Mirage” review by Michael Sicinski
2016 Enclave Review (14), MIRAGE review by Alice Butler
2016 AEMI, "The Films of Experimental Film Society" article by Alice Butler and Daniel Fitzpatrick
2014 Art in the Contemporary World, "See The Future" review by Barry Kehoe
2013 Experimental Conversations, "Luminosity" review by Maximillian Le Cain
2013 Particle Art, Interview
2011 International Streaming Festival, Interview
Artist Talks
2023 Arts Council Next Generation Artists’ Symposium panel discussion “Next Generation and the
Contemporary” with Róise Goan, David Coonan, and Marina Carr
2023 Temple Bar Gallery discussion on “The Magic Circle exhibition" with Jesse Jones, Yasaman
Pishvaei, and Olesya Zdorovetska
2023 Temple Bar Gallery “From Practice to Exhibition” “The Magic Circle” in conversation with
curator Michael Hill
2023 Irish Museum of Modern Art, 10 x10 Artists talk New Acquisition - IMMA Collection
2023 Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, panel discussion 'Performativity in Practice' Dublin, Ireland
2023 Baltic Analog Lab, Film School, lecture, Riga, Latvia
2022 Dublin Art Book Fair 'book launch' at TBG+S, Dublin, Ireland
2021 Visual Artist Ireland, 'Get together' (Ireland National Event for Visual Arts) Online
2020 Project Arts Centre, '20th Anniversary of Experimental Film Society' book launch, Online
2019 Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, ‘Making Connections’ Seminar, Dublin, Ireland
2019 LUX Critical Forum at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2018 Process Festival, discussion 'Alternative Film Communities', Riga, Latvia
2017 Berlin Experimental Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2016 Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 'Culture Night' studio visit, Dublin, Ireland
2016 Irish Film Institute (IFI), with Experimental Film Society and AEMI, Dublin, Ireland
2015 The Museum of Contemporary Art, with Experimental Film Society, Tehran, Iran
2015 Lichtblick-Kino, with Experimental Film Society, Berlin, Germany
2012 Black Church Print Studio, 'Production' Exhibition, Dublin
Collection
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Arts Council of Ireland
Siena Art Institute, Italy
Private Collection, Iran, Ireland, France, Canada