Fatemeh Burnes

Fatemeh Burnes was born in Tehran, first came to the United States in 1973, spent a five‐year period between three continents, and ultimately settled in Southern California in 1977 where she received her BFA and MFA in art and art history. Since re‐emerging in 2009 after a 14‐year hiatus during which time she was a mother and arts educator,
Burnes has earned the attention of top critics and curators in Southern California with new bodies of work in painting and photography, and has gained national and international recognition.

In January 2012 Zero+ Publishing released drift, a book of Burnes’ photographs, edited by critic and writer Peter Frank; and in March 2013 she published a 220‐page full‐color catalogue, Imprints of Nature and Human Nature, to accompany a solo exhibition at Mt. San Antonio College celebrating her two decades with the school. She has also exhibited at the Municipal Arts Gallery in Los Angeles, the Sturt Haaga Gallery of the Descanso Gardens in La Canada‐Flintridge, and at Laguna Beach’s George Gallery, which focuses on museum‐caliber contemporary women artists and which represents Burnes in Orange County. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in publications such as art ltd, ArtScene, and the Huffington Post.

In 2014 Burnes is scheduled for exhibitions both nationally and internationally. She will be featured in “Trans‐Angeles,” a traveling exhibition curated by Peter Frank for the Wilhelm‐Morgner‐Haus in Soest, Germany. The show is designed to highlight the distinctive paradigm within which Los Angeles artists think and work, drawing on both personal experience and Southern California’s variety of cultural and natural phenomena and fostering a willingness to experiment with diverse modes and media.

Writes Burnes:

I am interested in problem‐solving, not solving problems. An ingrained impulse to discover, explore, and invent drives my creative process. The science of artmaking fascinates me. I make art not just to produce objects, but also to explore phenomena, whether they occur in the world or in my dreams, as thoughts in my mind or rocks on the ground.

For more information, please visit www.fatemehburnes.com