Golnar Adili

Golnar Adili studied at University of Michigan and University of Virginia. The recorded working language is English and Persian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are artist's book and printmaking. Residence is recorded at Brooklyn. Work by Golnar Adili is recorded in the collections of Print Collection, Rutgers University Libraries, Library of Congress, Yale University Art Gallery and University of Michigan Museum of Art.

• Name — Golnar Adili • Native Name — گلنار عدیلی • Born — 1976 • Birthplace — Falls Church, Virginia, U.S. • Education — University of Virginia (BFA), University of Michigan (MA) • Website — http: www.golnaradili.com • Children — 1 • Partner — Louis Wegner

Golnar Adili was born in 1976, in Falls Church, Virginia, but by 1980 at the age four her family moved back to Iran. Her parents were political activists and after their move to Iran, her father was forced to flee back to the United States. She returned to the United States in 1994 to reunite with her father and pursue her college education. In 1998 she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and in 2006 she received a Master's degree in Architecture from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her partner is Louis Wegner, and they have one daughter. In 2009, she won a Fellowship in printmaking/drawing/artists books from New York Foundation for the Arts. Adili has been awarded residencies at Women's Studio Workshop (2015), The MacDowell Colony (2007, 2013), the Rockefeller Foundation at the Bellagio Center, and the Lower East Side Printshop (2014), among others.

A list of select exhibitions by Adili, in order by year.

• 2011 – Forged Patterning: Solo Show, Aun Gallery, Tehran, Iran • 2012 – I Wish One Could Measure the Emotions of Others: A Solo Show, Hudson D. Walker Gallery at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts • 2014 – Displacement, Craft and Folk Art Museum (now Craft Contemporary), Los Angeles, California; two-person exhibition with Samira Yamin • 2026 – Dust of Sorrow (Ghobar é Gham), Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

• 2013 – Art on Paper + 1, Brussels Contemporary Drawing Fair, Galeri Coullaud and Koulinsky, Paris, France • 2012 – Beached: An Exhibition of the 2011–2012 Visual Arts Fellows, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts • 2014 – Good News From Iran, Pasinger Fabrik-Munich, Munich, Germany • 2016 – Language Landscape, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York • 2016 – Contemporary Women Artists From Iran, Edward Hopper House Art Center, 82 North Broadway, Nyack, New York; three-person exhibition with Roya Farassat and Shabnam K. Ghazi • 2023 – Women Making Books, Albert and Shirley Small Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia