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.

His work is currently represented by Brian Gross Fine Art in San Francisco, California and Inde/Jacobs Gallery in Marfa, Texas.

EXHIBITIONS

Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California
April 2009 (upcoming)

Inde/Jacobs, Marfa, Texas
January 2009 (upcoming)

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 Works"
November 2004

Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Introductions"
July 2000

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, California
African American Museum and Library, Okaland, California
"Banned and Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship"
August-November 2008

SOMARTS , San Francisco, California
"East of the West"
March 2008

Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, California
"Out of the Fog / Artists from Headlands"
March 2008

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

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2008 (upcoming)

Kala Art Institute Artist in Residence
Berkeley, California, May 2007

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.