Aida Chehrehgosha

Aida Chehrehgosha is born in Teheran, Iran 1979 and curenntly lives in Stockholm, Sweden.

I have never actually considered myself a photographer. I see myself as a sort of a performance artist who puts itself in its own nightmares, obsessive thoughts and memories. I reenact the image that is present in my mind. I build it up physically and then place myself in front of it. A sort of exposure therapy. The photograph has always been a documentation of that moment when I’m facing my biggest fears in real time. I have tried to remove the pictures from my mind and transform them too a piece of paper hanging on a wall. A dead material that can’t hurt me anymore. Sometimes it has helped and sometimes not.

I grew up in a family that fled from Iran as political refugees. My dad was a fighter pilot in the army in Iran but when we fled to sweden his authority got crumbled. He was no longer the man he used to be. Something dark had entered his soul. This dark cloud of anger, hate, and violence spread across my whole childhood and left me scarred and filled with anxiety and obssesive thoughts.

The first time I picked up a camera and started documenting my life at the age of 16 something woke inside of me. A feeling of power came to ...

2019-2020
Creative Producer, Linköping, Sweden

2009-2010
Royal Institute of Arts, Special student, Stockholm, Sweden

2003-2009
University Collage of Arts, Crafts and Design, Konstfack, Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden

2000-2002
Photography studies at Kulturama, Stockholm

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017
Västerås Art museum, Västerås, Sweden. ”You’re the ones to blame”.

2015
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, ” I Can´t Stop Thinking”.

2014
Eskilstuna konstmuseum, Eskilstuna, Sweden. ”You’re ones to blame”.

Lars Bohman Gallery, showroom, Stockholm, Sweden

2013
Lars Bohman Gallery, Showroom, Stockholm, Sweden. ” I Can´t Stop Thinking”.

2012
The Finnish museum of photography, Helsinki, Finland
To mom, dad and my two brothers Chapter I-IV,

The Swedish Historical Museum of Wines and Spirits, Stockholm, Sweden

Skövde Art Museum, Skövde, Sweden ”You’re ones to blame” and “To mom, dad and my two brothers” Chapter I–IV,

2012
Angelika Knäpper Gallery, ”You’re the one's to blame”

2011 
The Centre for Photography, Stockholm, Sweden, ”To mom, dad and my two brothers, Chapter I-IV”

Format Gallery, Malmö, Sweden, ”To mom, dad and my two brothers”,

2010 
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, ”Self portrait, Chapter V”

2009 
Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden

Guest of honor - Sweden, Seaol Photo, Seoul, South Korea

St: Jakobs Church, Stockholm, Sweden

2006 
IDI Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2003
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Swed...