Education:

1982Conservatoire Libre du Cinema, Paris.

1976–81BA and MA, University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris.

1982Conservatoire Libre du Cinema, Paris.

1974–75University of California, Berkeley.

1973Holy Name College, Oakland, CA.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2025Y.Z. Kami: The Domes. Gagosian, Beverly Hills.

2023Y.Z. Kami: Night and Day. Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York.
Y.Z. Kami: Light, Gaze, Presence. Museo Novecento; Museo di Palazzo Vecchio; Museo degli Innocenti; Abbazia di San Miniato al Monte, Florence, Italy.

2022Y.Z. Kami: De forma silenciosa/In a Silent Way. MUSAC, León, Spain.

2020Y.Z. Kami: Night Paintings. Gagosian, Rome.

2018Y.Z. Kami: Geometry of Light. Gagosian, Paris.

2016Y.Z. Kami: Endless Prayers. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

2015Y.Z. Kami: Paintings. Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London.

2014Y.Z. Kami: Paintings. Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York.

2009Y.Z. Kami: Beyond Silence. National Museum of Contemporary Art, EMST, Athens.

2008Y.Z. Kami: Endless Prayers. Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London.
Perspectives: Y.Z. Kami. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Y.Z. Kami. John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco.
Y.Z. Kami. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.

2003The Watchful Portraits of Y.Z. Kami. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

2002Y.Z. Kami. Martin Weinstein, Minneapolis.

2001Y.Z. Kami. Deitch Projects, New York.

1999Y.Z. Kami: Dry Land. Deitch Projects, New York.

1998Y.Z. Kami. Deitch Projects, New York.

1996Y.Z. Kami. Holly Solomon Gallery, New York.

1993Y.Z. Kami. Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York.

1992Y.Z. Kami. Long Beach Museum of Art, CA.
Y.Z. Kami. Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York.

1984Y.Z. Kami. L.T.M. Gallery, New York.

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2025Copyists. Centre Pompidou-Metz, France.
Out of focus, another vision of art from 1945 to the present day. Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris. Traveling to: CaixaForum Madrid; CaixaForum Barcelona, Spain, 2026.

2023Realism. Dastan Gallery, London.

2022Burning at the Edges. Longlati Foundation, Shanghai.
Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians—The Mohammed Afkhami Collection. Asia Society Museum, New York. 2020 Blanc sur Blanc. Gagosian, Paris.

2019The Spark Is You: Parasol unit in Venice. Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice.

2017The Garden of Mystery. Asia House, London.
Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians. Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada. Traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
A Closer Look: Portraits from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection . Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle.

2016Mass Individualism: A Form of Multitude. Ab-Anbar Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
Échos. Presented by Kering from the collection of Francois-Henri Pinault on the occasion of Journées Européenes du Patrimoine, Paris.

2015The Rainbow Serpent. Gagosian, Athens.

2014One Way: Peter Marino. Bass Museum of Art, Miami.
Seeing Through Light: Selections from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Collection. Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.
Horror Vacui. Gagosian Gallery, Geneva.

2013Safar/Voyage: Contemporary Works by Arab, Iranian and Turkish Artists. Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

2012Contemporary Iranian Art from the Permanent Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

2011The Mask and the Mirror: Curated by Shirin Neshat. Leila Heller Gallery, New York.

2010Be Blue. Laleh June Galerie, Basel.

2009A Certain State of the World? Works from the Francois Pinault Foundation. Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow.
Raad O Bargh, 17 Artists from Iran, Group Show. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris.

2008Mobile Art: Chanel Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid. Hong Kong; Tokyo; New York; Paris.

2007All the More Real (curated by Eric Fischl & Merrill Falkenberg). Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY.
52nd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia: Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind. Campo della Tana, Venice.

2006The Grand Promenade. National Museum of Contemporary Arts, Athens. Eye to Eye. Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL.
Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking. Museum of Modern Art, New York. 2005 9th International Istanbul Biennial. Istanbul.
After the Revolution. Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen.

2004Beyond East and West. Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL.

1997Architecture as Metaphor. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

1996The Inaugural Exhibition. Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco.
Portraits. James Graham & Sons, New York. Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York.

1995Cargo, Marseilles, France.

1994It’s How to Play the Game. Exit Art, New York / White Columns, New York.

1992Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York.

1991Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York.

1986Center Culturel Boulogne-Brillancourt, Paris.

1985Pasadena Museum of Art, CA.