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آبـان Aban

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About

Sholeh Asgary (b. Iran) engages performance, interdisciplinary forms, and collective processes to investigate, memorialize, and express the complexities of joy and survival inherent in diasporic and refugee experiences. Her work challenges colonial assumptions about what is heard, proposing new futures through sound.

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News + Upcoming

January 27, 2026

Sholeh Asgary is announced as one of 16 Finalists for the 2026 SECA Award (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) from the San Francisco Museum of Art

Since 1967, the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) Art Award has honored more than 90 Bay Area artists with an exhibition at SFMOMA and an accompanying publication.

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December 20, 2025

Performance by Sholeh Asgary for: Yalda
ending the dark reign of empire, birthing the light of resistance

Saturday, December 20 from 7 - 11 pm at Cone Shape Top in Oakland, CA.

Alchemia presents: Yalda

with Sholeh Asgary, Falgoush: Dast Dar Dast: Folk Songs of Resistance from Afghanistan and Iran, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, OMJVinyls, DJ Alchemia

$15 NOTAFLOF
All ticket proceeds donated to grassroots mutual aid initiatives in Sudan

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November, 2025

Sholeh Asgary along with 3,979 artists in Basta Now, Women, Trans & Non-Binary in Experimental Music by Fanny Chiarello

"I would like this inventory, by its simple existence, to respond to the curators of festivals and other musical events who I can hear say, “We would like to program more women, trans and non-binary but how do we find them?“ And this long list is an answer that could be translated as “Open your eyes, they are here, they are everywhere.“ And now here it is: my list of approximately 3979 artists."
- Fanny Chiarello

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October 25, 2025

"Love Letters to Aliens" Opening Reception with a Performance by Roco Cordova and DJ set by Alchemia, curated by Sholeh Asgary

5 pm til the end, Saturday, October 25, 2025 at Southern Exposure, San Francisco.

The exhibition, with work by Rana Hamadeh, Xandra Ibarra, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Maryam Tafakory, and Yue Xiang, considers the notion of the alien in its most expansive sense – from the extraterrestrial to the intimate.

Free and Open to the Public

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