Individual collections include: African
art and samurai armour owned by Arman; examples of
British vernacular culture from Peter Blake; the eclectic contents of two rooms from Hanne Darboven's family home in Hamburg; Edmund de Waal's Japanese netsuke; Damien Hirst's skulls, taxidermy and medical models; Indian paintings from Howard Hodgkin; Dr. Lakra's record covers and scrapbooks, Sol LeWitt's Japanese prints, modernist photographs and music scores; 20th century
British postcards and Soviet space dog memorabilia from Martin Parr; Jim Shaw's thrift store paintings; Hiroshi Sugimoto's 18th century French and Japanese anatomical prints and books; Andy Warhol's cookie jars; more than 1,000 scarves and other textiles by the American designer Vera Neumann from Pae White; and a collection of thousands of objects assembled by Martin Wong and subsequently acquired by Danh Vo.
The artist's work has been included in extensive group exhibitions, including Iran Modern, Asia Society, New York (2013); Spectacular of the
Vernacular, Minneapolis Institute of
Arts, MN (2011); Word Into
Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East,
British Museum, London (2006); Far Near Distance: Contemporary Positions of Iranian Artists, House of World Cultures, Berlin (2004); Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA (1988); Sculptur Projekte Muster» 87, Germany (1987); International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern
Art, New York (1984); 74th Annual American Exhibition,
Art Institute of Chicago, IL (1982); Biennial of American
Art; Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York (1981); 39th Venice Biennale, American Pavilion, Italy (1980); Information, Museum of Modern
Art, New York (1970); and Documenta 5 (1972), 7 (1982) and 8 (1987), Kassel, Germany.