In celebration of Mahnaz Collection’s Tenth Anniversary and NYC Jewelry Week we proudly invite you to view MODERNIST JEWELRY ICONS FROM HELSINKI TO HOPI, 1950-1980, An Exhibition of Transformative Modernist Jewelry Designs in Europe and the Americas, Post -WWII.

Mahnaz Collection presented the exhibition ‘Materials in Play,’ at our Madison Avenue gallery, which opened April 24, 2023, and ended on May 5, 2023. The jewelry on view focused on the specific ways in which a material is explored, by an international group of contemporary jewelry artists and several inspired jewelers of an earlier era. The jewelry artists explored their chosen materials with specific conceptual and metallurgical approaches to ideas, design and process. Each artist shown works intensively with their material of choice: hardstones, yellow gold, silver, steel, zirconium, titanium, and glass. Their work conversed with vintage jewels from Mahnaz Collection, selected by the artists as speaking to their work.

Christopher Thompson Royds (London, England), Pat Pruitt (Laguna Pueblo, US), Amy Lemaire (New York, US), Carmen Tapia (Taxco, Mexico), and Julia Obermaier (Kempten, Germany) were the stellar contemporary jewelry artists, each at different stages of their careers, who showed their work.

MEDITATIONS ON MODERNISM: Thirty Years of Jewelry Design by Jacqueline Rabun, 1990–2022, presented as part of New York City Jewelry Week, was on view November 14–December 2 at Mahnaz Collection. This selling exhibition showcases the long and important career of the jewelry designer Jacqueline Rabun, whose aesthetic and philosophical vision has resulted in modernist jewelry of refined artistry and emotional resonance. Mahnaz Collection’s exhibition featured jewels from Rabun's current and archival designs for Georg Jensen, her early independent work from 1989 to 2000, and a preview of some of her newest creations featuring minimal designs with hand-carved gemstones.

Additionally the gallery presented highlights from its Nordic collection including silversmiths and goldsmiths, artists, sculptors, and designers who were at the leading edge of modernist innovation in several different spheres, ranging from architecture to jewelry to ceramics to design for home goods. In jewelry, their work showcased form, materials, and simplicity, while jewelers from different Nordic countries explored organic curves, minimalism, brutalism, geometric design, and a profound engagement with nature.

Mahnaz Collection announces its first major exhibition of all-female jewelers, featuring contemporary and heritage jewelers and over 250 fine jewelry works. Titled Women of Vision: 70 Years of Shaping the World of Jewelry, 1950 – Present, the exhibition will be on view from May 3- May 19th, 2022 at its Gallery in New York City. The exhibition celebrates the independence, originality, dynamism, and craftsmanship of these female jewelry designers, goldsmiths and artists who have – and continue to – shape jewelry history. A radiant mix of jewels will be showcased, including some never-seen-before pieces by contemporary jewelers, which will debut exclusively at Mahnaz Collection.

Through the exhibition, curated by Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos, the gallery brings together both influential and emerging contemporary female jewelers and artists, including Solange Azagury-Partridge, Alice Cicolini, Melanie Eddy, Cora Sheibani, Tess Sholom, Van Gelder Jewellery, and Sophia Vari. It invites a dialogue between their work and the highly collectible modern vintage jewels created by over 25 important female makers who started working in the second half of the twentieth century. Hailing from Argentina and Mexico and the American Southwest to Britain and the Nordic countries- the group includes Barbara Cartlidge, Noma Copley, Angela Cummings, Nanna Ditzel, Claire Falkenstein, Leonor Fini, Gerda Flöckinger, Zaha Hadid, Theresia Hvorslev, Claude Lalanne, E.R. Nele, Marianne Ostier, Alicia Penalba, Elsa Peretti, Wendy Ramshaw, Eveli Sabatie, Verma Naquatewa (Sonwai), and Vivianna Torun, among others.

Mahnaz Collection’s third exhibition in its series on modern masters of jewelry design is titled Material Beauty: Modern Hopi, Navajo, and Pueblo Artist Jewelers. Featuring over 175 pieces, the exhibition offers a perspective on influential modernist directions taken by southwestern Hopi, Navajo and Pueblo silver and goldsmiths since the 1960s. Material Beauty centers around the dynamic workshops of select master jewelers showcasing the most original and influential artists, led foremost by renaissance Hopi artist Charles Loloma and Bauhaus influenced Richard Chavez.

Mahnaz Collection opened its second exhibition London Originals: The Jeweler’s Art in Radical Times on April 11, 2018. Featuring over 150 jewels from the most original independent London jewelers working in the . 1960s and ‘70s the exhibition was hosted by Wright, 980 Madison Avenue in New York City.

In collaboration with Wright, the leading Chicago-based modernist design auction house, Mahnaz Collection curated a collection of jewels by two Brazilian brothers, the artist Roberto Burle Marx and the jeweler Haroldo Burle Marx, who transformed Brazilian jewelry and represent the best of Brazilian mid twentieth century modernist design.