Hadi Tabatabai was born in Mashhad, Iran, in 1964. He immigrated to the United States in 1977 with his family, settling in California. Tabatabai received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology from California State University Fresno in 1985 and a Bachelor in Fine Arts in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1995.

Tabatabai's work has been shown in London, Turin, Bonn, and widely in the United States. He has had solo exhibitions at the Anthony Grant Gallery in New York, Brian Gross Fine Art and Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, and Inde/Jacobs in Marfa, Texas.

His works are included in the collections of The Achenbach Foundation at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Delaware Art Museum, The Contemporary Museum (Honolulu, Hawaii), the Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine), The Lannan Foundation, The Progressive Corporation Art Collection, and the Werner H. Kramarsky Collection.

AWARDS AND HONORS

2011
SECA Award Nominee, SFMOMA
San Francisco, California

2010
Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, California

2008
Grant Recipient, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
East Hampton, New York

2007
Artist in Residence, Kala Art Institute
Berkeley, California

2006-2007
Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, California

2005
ASIA Alive Artist in Residence, Asian Art Museum
San Francisco, California

2004
SECA Award Finalist, SFMOMA
San Francisco, California

2001
In/site Award Nominee, SFMOMA
San Francisco, California