Selected Events:

  • Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK) Hamburg, Presentation for How to relate (to) a book, Hamburg – 2025.
  • Ljubljana Short Film Festival (FeKK), Cinema and Resistance panel, Ljubljana – 2025.
  • Dokufest Prizren, Triangle Program, Four Walls for a Future, Kosovo – 2024.
  • Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film (BEEF), The Commonplace Unravelled: The Films of Tara Najd Ahmadi, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK – 2024.
  • Filmkollektive Frankfurt, Lokale Bilder, globale Ströme, Germany – 2024.
  • London Short Film Festival, Documentary: Image// Making, ICA London, UK – 2024.
  • Diagonale Film Festival, Short Documentary Films, Graz, Austria – 2024.
  • Athens International Film + Video Festival – 2024.
  • FICUNAM: Festival International de Cine UNAM- 2024.
  • Mono No Aware, NYC, Landscapes of the Future Memory – 2024.
  • Vienna Shorts Film Festival, Triangle Program, Four Walls for a Future – 2024.
  • Bucharest International Film Festival – 2024.
  • Schule Friedl Kubelka, Artist Presentation, Vienna – 2024 & 2022.
  • Anthology Film Archives, Retrospective of short films, Measuring the Level of Resistance: Films by Tara Najd Ahmadi, NYC – 2023.
  • Retrospective of all the short films, Instant Cult: Tara Najd Ahmadi, Slovenian Cinematheque, Ljubljana, Slovenia – 2023.
  • Ljubljana Short Film Festival (FeKK), Artist Talk, Cinema as a Means of Resistance, Ljubljana – 2023.
  • Millennium Film Workshop, Films from Sleep, NYC – 2023.
  • Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany – 2023.
  • Vienna Shorts Film Festival, Austria – 2023.
  • Silent Green, Presentation at Film Undone, Berlin – 2023.
  • Wavelength Series, Gulistan, TIFF Lightbox, Toronto, CA – 2023.
  • Alternative Film/Video festival, Academic Film Centre, Belgrade, Serbia 2023.
  • Diagonale Film Festival, Graz, Austria – 2023.
  • Strangloscope Film Festival, Florianopolis, Brazil – 2023.
  • Centre of Finnish Media Arts, Wandering Fantasies, Orion Cinema, Helsinki, Finland – 2023.
  • Retrospective of short films, PAF Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art, Olomouc, Czech Republic – 2022.
  • Retrospective of short films, Academic Film Centre, Belgrade, Serbia – 2022.
  • Retrospective of short films, Hauptbücherei Wien, Vienna Public Library, Austria – 2022.
  • Academy of Fine Arts, Artist Talk, Vienna – 2022.
  • Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Films from Iran for Iran, London, UK – 2022.
  • Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Films from Iran for Iran, Leipzig, Germany – 2022
  • Invisible Culture Journal: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, After Douglas Crimp Special Issue, online exhibition of the short film, An Art Historian’s Recipe – 2022.
  • Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška, Beyond Borders, Slovenia – 2021.
  • Burchfield Penney Art Centre, Making Strange Exhibition, Buffalo, New York – 2021.
  • UCLA, Department of Gender Studies, Artist Talk in Media and Feminism Course, Los Angeles – 2021.
  • Celje Contemporary Art Centre, Beyond Borders, Slovenia – 2021.
  • Metro Kinokulturhaus, sixpackfilm: Junges Kino von Frauen, Vienna, Austria – 2020.
  • Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany – 2019.
  • Process Film Festival, On the Time of Things, Riga, Latvia – 2019.
  • Dotodotdot Film Festival, Vienna, Austria – 2019.
  • Diagonale Film Festival, Graz, Austria – 2019.
  • Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, Netherlands – 2019.
  • Depot – Kunst und Diskussion, Retrospective of all the short films, The Revenge of Incomplete, Vienna, Austria – 2019.
  • Elles Tournent – Dames Draaien Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium – 2019.
  • Alternative Film/Video festival, Belgrade, Serbia (1440 Fotograms: Focus Puller, in collaboration.
    with Jurij Meden and Davorin Marc) – 2018.
  • FeKK Film Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia – 2018.
  • University of Basel, Memoryscapes in Iranian Cinema, Presentation on Film and Aesthetics of Incomplete – 2018.
  • Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland – 2018.
  • Buffalo Arts Studio, Between the Images, Buffalo, NY – 2017.
  • Visual Studies Workshop, Local Artists, Rochester, NY – 2016.
  • Texas State University art space, FEED, video on loop, San Marcos, TX – 2015.
  • Azad Art Gallery, Three Minutes of Headless Life, Solo Exhibition, Tehran, Iran – 2014.
  • Blackwood Art Gallery, Gendered Artifacts & Traces Illuminated in the Archives, Toronto – 2014.
  • Rochester Art Centre, The Protagonist, Rochester, MN – 2013.
  • Hartnett Art Gallery, Productive Frustration, Solo Exhibition, Rochester, NY – 2013.
  • Croxhapox, Breath from a Warm Locale, Belgium – 2013.
  • Students for Democratic Society (SDS), Art and Activism, University of Rochester, 2013.
  • Artists’ Television Access, Invisible Present, San Francisco, CA – 2012.
  • Prat, Video Therapy Screening, New York, NY – 2012.
  • New Media Gallery, Old Town Hall, Re: REFERENDUM, Split, Croatia- 2012.
  • Momentum Tulsa Spotlight Exhibition, Tulsa, OK, 2010.
  • Aria Art Gallery, Closets, Tehran, Iran – 2005.