Exhibitions
"POETS, LOCKS, CAGES"
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
July 1 - November 19 2023
"Oh Nightingale"
Art Museum, West Vancouver
July - October 2019
"Lovers"
Art Center - Tehran
July 2018
"Parviz Tanavoli and Atelier Niavaran"
Boom Gallery - Tehran
November 2017
"Parviz Tanavoli and the Lions of Iran"
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA)
July - August 2017
"Celebrating 80 - Art in the Hand"
Goldsmiths' Centre, London
March 2017
"Things and Nothings"
Art Center, Tehran
November 2017
"Parviz Tanavoli and fifty years of Pop Art"
Shahrivar Gallery, Tehran
May - June 2016
"The World goes Pop"
Tate Modern, London
September 2015 - January 2016
"Global/Local 1960–2015: Six Artists from Iran"
January - April 2016
"The Armory Show - Modern"
March 2015
"Parviz Tanavoli"
Davis Museum, Boston
February - June 2015
"Poet"
Etemad Gallery, Tehran
November 2014
"Modern Iranian Art: Selections from the Abby Weed Grey Collection at NYU"
September - December 2013
"Parviz Tanavoli"
Meem Gallery, Dubai
January - February 2013
"Iran Modern"
Asia Society, New York
September 2013 - January 2014
"Contemporary Iranian Art"
Metropolitan Museum, New York
March - September 2012
"Heech the Sculpture Series"
Gallery 10, Tehran
June 2011
"Parviz Tanavoli at the British Museum"
British Museum, London
September 2011
"Parviz Tanavoli and Abbas Kiarostami"
Meem Gallery, Dubai
November 2009
"Parviz Tanavoli : Bodywear"
Gallery 10, Tehran
May - August 2009
"Parviz Tanavoli Retrospective"
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA)
January - April 2003
"Museum of Parviz Tanavoli"
Museum of Parviz Tanavoli, Tehran
May 2003
"Neue Galerie"
Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
January - March 1978
"Parviz Tanavoli Bronze Sculpture"
December 1976 - January 1977
"Nightingales by Parviz Tanavoli"
Litho Gallery, Tehran
December 1974
"Sculpture Exhibition by Parviz Tanavoli"
Goethe Instituts, Tehran
October 1972
"Sculpture Exhibition"
Iran Americ Society, Tehran
April - June 1970
"Tanavoli Sculptures"
Shiraz & Isfahan, Iran
March - July 1970
"K.Schlamming, P.Tanavoli"
Iran American Society, Tehran
June 1969
"Modern Iranische Kunst"
Goethe Instituts, Tehran
June 1968
"Sculpture Exhibition by Tanavoli"
Gallery Seihoun, Tehran
February - March 1968
"Sculpture Exhibition by Parviz Tanavoli"
Gallery Seihoun, Tehran
April - May 1967
"Exhibition of Sculpture and Paintings by Tanavoli"
Borghese Gallery, Tehran
November 1965
"Parviz Tanavoli Ceramic Sculpture"
KB Gallery, Minneapolis
November - December 1963
"14 Contemporary Iranians"
Minneapolis School of Art, Minnesota
June - July 1962
"Exhibition P - Tanavoli"
Atelier Kaboud, Tehran
December 1961
"Parviz Tanavoli"
Atelier Kaboud, Tehran
December 1961
"Exhibition of Parviz Tanavoli"
Farhang Hall, Tehran
October 1960
"Exhibition of Iranian Artists"
Saderat Bank, Tehran
June - July 1960
"Biennale Internazionale di Scultura"
Carrara Biennial, Italy
July - August 1959
"Biennale Internazionale d'arte"
Venice Biennial
June - October 1958
Collections
"Persian Steel - The Tanavoli Collection"
Victoria Art Gallery, BC
March - July 2007
"Persian Steel - The Tanavoli Collection"
Vancouver Museum, BC
March - September 2007
"Persian Steel - A Mirror of Life in Iran"
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland
September 2004
"Steel a Mirror of Life in Iran"
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
September - November 2000
"Von LIEBE. MACHT und MYSTIK"
Volkerkunde Museum, Basel, Switzerland
September 1994 - March 1995
"Lion Rugs of Iran"
Vancouver, Victoria BC
June - September 1992
"Textile Museum"
Krefeld, Germany
November 1990 - January 1991
"Lion Rugs from Fars"
Bagh Ferdows, Tehran
May 1987
"Lion Rugs"
Barbican Art Gallery, London
December 1986 - January 1987
"Lion Rugs"
Durham Museum - Omaha
July - August 1987
"Lowenteppiche Aus Iran"
University Museum, Zurich
September 1985 - January 1986
"Lion Rugs from Fars"
Australia
1980-1981
"Lion Rugs from Fars"
Talar Sahar, Shiraz, Iran
September 1978