1989 M.F.A. Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute

1985 Arts and Consciousness, John F. Kennedy University

1982 B.S. Graphic Design, San Jose State University

Common Thread, Sonoma, CA
Seed of Knowledge; University of Minnesota Plant Growth Center, MN

Golden Gateway; Hayes Valley Green, San Francisco, CA

Nowhere; Postcard project for Public Art Review Magazine

Signs of the Times; Utility Boxes, Emeryville, CA
Kochi Health Science Center, Japan

Sacramento International Airport, Sacramento, CA

Horace Mann Elementary School, San Jose, CA

Un-Covering; Emeryville, CA

A Sense of Unity; Valley Medical Hospital, San Jose, CA

Who Am I?; Market Street Kiosks, San Francisco, CA

The Color of My Dream, Zeum, San Francisco, CA

Speaking Stones, Richmond Community Center;San Francisco

InVision, SFMOMA Garage, San Francisco, CA

What Do You Think?; San Francisco, CA

Where is Fairfield ?; Fairfield, CA

Forgotten Language; Palo Alto, CA

Selected words, San Rafael, CA

Pasadena Metro Project; Los Angeles, CA

Neptune´s Gate; Manhattan Beach, CA

Words by Roads; Oakland, CA

Here; Former Western Union Building, San Francisco, CA

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam; Grace Cathedral, S.F., CA

Perfect Shadows; S.F. Art Commission´s Outdoor Annex

Grand Illusion; Berkeley Arts Commission´s Addison St. Site

Departure Room, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA

Renunciation; A Requim; University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, CA

Drawn to Light; University Art Museum, San Bernardino, CA

Drawn by Light; Art Gallery, San Bernardino Valley College, CA

Canticles of Ecstasy, deSaisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA

Unconscious Enigma- Youth collaboration, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Remembrance; Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA

Garden of Secrets, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA

There is no place like here, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY

Here, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA

Last Words, New Museum of Contemporary Arts, NY, NY

Ship of Fools, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA

Trompe L¹eoil Columns; Sushi, San Diego, CA

Refinement of Matter, KALA Institute, Berkeley, CA

Living on the Edge, SITE, Los Angeles, CA

Eggsorcism; San Mateo Art Council, Belmont, CA

Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

sm.ART Gallery, Munich, Germany

Pac Art, Los Angeles, CA

Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA

M.Y. Art Prospects Gallery, NY

SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA

Eric Dean Gallery, Wabash College, Indiana

de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA

DePree Art Center, Hope College, MI

Pro Arts, Oakland, CA

ICA, San Jose, CA

Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary¹s College, CA

Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA

SOMAR, San Francisco, CA

San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

Euphrat Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

The Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, MO

Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Richard/Bennet Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Terrain, San Francisco, CA

SFMOMA Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA

New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

NEA US/Japan Creative Artists' Fellowship

California Art Council Grant

LEF Foundation Grant Kala Institute

Creative Work Fund

Howard Foundation Merit Award, Brown University

Oakland Business Arts Awards

Most Unusual Mural Award, Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center

Artists Project Grant, Lace/ New Langton Arts

Creative Artists Fellowship, City of Oakland

Western States Arts Federation

Art Matters Inc. Grant

Orchids Award by the American Institute of Architects

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

Art Matters Inc. Grant

David McMillan Memorial Award

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

US/ Japan Creative Artists´ Residency

University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA

Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA

Blue Mountain Residency, Blue Mountain Lake, NY

John Michael Kohler Arts Center Residency, Sheboygan, WI

Djerassi Foundation Residency, Woodside, CA

Visiting faculty, San Francisco Art Institute

Visiting artist, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan

Lecturer, Inter Arts Center, S.F. State University, CA

Youth Workshop, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F

Youth Workshop, Youth Ambassador Program, Yerba Buena Center for the Art, San Francisco

Sculpture Instructor, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

Sculpture Instructor, University of California, Davis, CA

Summer Workshop, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

Sacred Spaces; Exhibition Catalogue, Berkeley Art Center

Colin Berry; Artweek; Seyed Alavi at the University Art Gallery, SSU

Patricia Au; Artweek; Emeryville Introduces Temporary Public Art Program

Gretchen Giles; North Bay Bohemian, Birdcages in Your Soul

Chiori Santiago; The Museum of California, Being There

Alchemy, Exhibition Catalogue

Thomas McGovern; Art Papers Magazine; Mirror of the Invisible

Public Art Review; In-Vision Review

Berin Golonu; Artweek; “Mirror of the Invisible” at the Fullerton Art Museum

Terri Cohn; Sculpture Magazine; Some Ruminations on Recent Ca. Art Practices

Christine Laffer; Art Papers Magazine; Transforming the Text- Seyed Alavi¹s Experience of Words

Public Art Review; What Do You Think?

Christine Laffer; Art Papers Magazine

Catherine Maclay; San Jose Mercury News;Seyed Alavi infuses de Saisset with enchantment

Ann Elliot Sherman; San Jose Metro; Into the Mystic

Exhibition Catalogue; Searching for the Spiritual

Catherine Maclay; San Jose Mercury News; Getting to heart of Homelessness

Steven Jenkin; Artweek; home

Colin Wood, Arts and the Islamic World; Seyed Alavi

Terri Cohn, Artweek; Con(text): artists working with words

Lynne Baer; School Arts; Minding the Maze

Anna Novakov, Public Art Review; “Veiled” Extracts. Bay Area Work in Progress

Ed Frauenheim, Tri-Valley Herald; Dublin Students´ Brainy Project School Arts; Community-based Art

Julia Chiapella, The Sentinel; Creating the indescribable in 10 days

Christina Waters, Metro Santa Cruz; Liquid Memories

Seyed Alavi, Arts; The Garden of Secrets and Visual

Poetry
Philip Pregill, Public Art Review; Finding Fairfield; public art reveals a community´s identity
K.U.S.P Radio; State of the Arts
Alison Schneider, The Chronicle of Higher Education; Religion and Modern Art Find Common Ground.

Judith Faught, Daily Republic; Student artists show their vision of “Where is Fairfield?”

Peter Frank, Press-Telegram; Eccentric art that beguiles

Matt Peiken, Daily Republic; Heightening Awareness, Widespread public art project hopes to inspire critical thinking

Seyed Alavi, Public Art Review; Using language to create an art of insight

Somar Gallery Catalogue; Who Controls Public Space?

Capp Street Project Catalogue 1991-1994

Catherine Rose, Long Beach Union; Eastern exhibit changes voice of art

William Wilson, Los Angeles Times; Art Review

Bill Lasarow, ArtScene; Continuing and Upcoming

Lisa Goldstein, Daily 49er; Exhibits stress language, discovery, irony, turmoil.

Matt Peiken, Daily Republic, Artistic Project to Ask “Where Is Fairfield?”

Timothy W. Drescher, San Francisco Murals; Community Creates Its Muse 1914- 1994

Euphrat Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogue; Coming Across

Roy Avila, Interview- Channel 36 Television, Eye on San Jose

Laura J. Tuchman, San Jose Mercury News, A world without borders

Levin, The Village Voice, Voice choice

Gary Peterson, Ross Valley Reporter; Seven quotes fill seven windows

Dan Fost, Marine Independent Journal, Writers´ quotations displayed at library

Anna Novakov, Art Press, Seyed Alavi, Capp Street Project

Mary Hull Webster, Artweek, The Public Soul

Guy Trebay, The Village Voice, Parts of Speech

Valerie A. Frasca, Art Now; Chicago/ Midwest, Sanctuaries: Recovering the Holy in Contemporary Art

Chiori Santiago, The Oakland Tribune, Main Street Art

Francesco Bonami, Flash Art, Panorama NYC

New Museum of Contemporary Art 15th Anniversary Catalogue

Marcia Tanner, Art Week, Auspicious Entries

Terri Cohn, Vision Magazine, Advanced Placements

Rita Cohen, Interview- Channel 4 News, Words by Roads

Katherine Corcoran, Oakland Tribune, Road signs to make you think-a lot

Frances Dinkelspiel, San Jose Mercury News, eRACISM on the wall

Catherine McEver, East Bay Express, Written on the Freeway Walls

Elizabeth Ann Flynn, The Montclarion, Murals to be taken literally

Julie Bourland, The Mills College Weekly,Students Spread the Word with Freeway Murals

All Things Considered, Interview- National Public Radio

Edie Meidav, Art Week, Rediscoveries

Jeff Kelley, Vision Magazine, Installations in San Francisco

Richmond Art Center, Viewpoints, Catalogue of Eight Installations

David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, A telegram out of the past

Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, Back to the Past at Western Union

Rebecca Solnit, Vision Magazine, Transcendental Materialism

Barrett Watten, Art Week, Seyed Alavi

David Bonnetti, San Francisco Examiner, Seyed Alavi at Terrain

Peter Frank, L.A. Weekly, Art Pick of the Week

Celeste Connor, Art Week, Reverencing Tradition

Rebecca Solnit, Art Week, Beyond the Object

Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, “Street Sites” Looks at Society´s Shameful Side

Susan Freudenhiem, San Diego Union, SUSHI Goes Public

John O´Brien, Art Week, Taking to the Streets

Glen Helfand, Art Week, The Ordinary Transformed

Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, Finding a Message in Found Objects

Kathleen Donnelly, San Jose Mercury, Cracking Eggs and Making Art in San Mateo

Sherry Lee Thomas, Art Week, The Medium Versus The Message New Langton Arts