Education
2006 MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2005 C.G. Jung Institut, Küsnacht, Switzerland, Summer Intensive
1997 BA Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Geometry of Defense, University of the Arts, Gallery 1401, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2010 Invented Memory, Workspace Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Cyrus Karimipour: Recent Photographic Works. Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
2009 Invented Memory, Lishui International Photo Festival, Lishui, China
2007 Focus [+] Photo, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 “Alternative Testimony, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
2019 “Salon”, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
“10 for January”, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
2016 “The Dark Side”, BBAC, Birmingham, Michigan
2014 “First Show”, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
“Winter Group Show”, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
2013 “Constructed Realities: Artist’s Dioramas”, PCCA, Rochester, Michigan
“Re-Fresh”, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
“Geográfica”, La Fototeca, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2010 “Our Town”, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
“Artprize”, Women’s City Club, Grand Rapids, Michigan
“Mind”, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan
“In Spite of the Evidence”, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2009 “3rd Lesson: World of Your Own”, Kaunas Photo Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania
“Bods: Rethinking the Figure”, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
“Artprize”, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan
“Objects: Mixed Media”, 101 Exhibit, Miami, Florida
Viennafair, International Contemporary Art Fair, Vienna Austria, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle
“Group Show: An Intro”, 101/Exhibit, Miami, Florida
“Pure Detroit”, Art Channel, Beijing, China
2008 “Made in Detroit”, Galerie Eva Bracke, Berlin, Germany
“Changing Cities, Detroit/Bregenz”, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz, Austria
“Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer”,
Light Work, Syracuse, New York
“Elements Gallery Featured Artists”, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan
“Uneasy”, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, Michigan
“14th Annual Juried Show”, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts
“2008 Edgy Photography Exhibition”, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado
“Changing Cities: Detroit”, ThreeWalls, Chicago, Illinois
Collections
La Fototeca, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Lishui Photography Museum, Lishui, China
Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Light Work, Syracuse, New York
The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado
Daimler Chrysler Financial Services, Farmington Hills, Michigan
Publications
Mirzaei, Mohammadreza, Dide 4, Online Photography Magazine, July 2010.
Jianbo, Chen, 2009 China Lishui International Images, 050.
Solis, Patricio Maya, “Illuminating Memory”, Nueva Luz, 13:3 (Spring 2009), 42.
Hoone, Jeffrey, Contact Sheet, Number 149, Cover, 24-33, 49.
Meyer, Anouk, “Stilvoller Niedergang”, Neues Deutschland, December 10, 2008.
Ruthe, Ingeborg, “Melancholische Grüße aus Detroit”, Berliner Zeitung, December 5, 2008.
Rushworth, Katherine, “For the Sake of Remembering”, The Post Standard, November, 16, 2008, 14.
Harper’s Magazine, September 2008, 22.
Rebecca Mazzei, “Flicker and Flash”, Metro Times, August 8-14, 2007, 24-26.
From Here On Out, Cranbrook Academy of Art Graduate Book, 2006.
Awards
2021 Gilda Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit
2009 Critical Mass Finalist.
2009, Review Santa Fe Participant.
2009, Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers – Nominee.
2008, Critical Mass Finalist, Juried Portfolio Review, Photolucida, Portland, Oregon.
2008, Honorable Mention, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts, 14th Annual Juried Show.
2008, Artist’s Showcase Award, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado, “Edgy”.
2008 Daimler Artist Travel Grant, Changing Cities: Berlin Exchange.