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SOODY SHARIFI: BIOGRAPHY — PDF |
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Born in 1955, Tehran, Iran
Since 1974, resides in Houston, Texas |
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EDUCATION |
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| 2004 |
Master of Fine Arts in Studio Photography, University of Houston |
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| 1982 |
Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineering, University of Houston |
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RESIDENCIES |
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| 2010 |
Stiftung Kunstledorf Schoppingen, Germany |
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2010 |
Assumption of others, Gallery F15, Oslo, Norway |
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| 2007 |
Garden of Persian Delight, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston |
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| 2006 |
Teenagers and Maxiatures, Northern photographic Center, Helsinki, Finland |
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Proud and Sad / Wrong and Strong, Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas |
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Moslem Teenagers, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon |
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| 2004 |
Moslem Teenagers, Dom Fotografie, Poprad, Slovakia |
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Simply Girls, Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY |
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Veiled / Unveiled, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas |
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2002 Women of Cover, Hungry’s gallery, FotoFest, Houston, Texas |
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2012 |
Soody Sharifi presented her work at the following venues for the Jameel prize tour.
Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris — 6 Dec 2011 – 4 March 2012
Casa Arabe, Madrid — Late March to mid July 2012
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — September - November 2012
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University— December 2012 - March 2013
New York TBC - VENUE CONSIDERING — March/April – June/July 2013 |
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| 2009 |
Baku Biennale, December 15, Baku Russia |
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Emancipated, Haggerty gallery Dallas, TX |
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| 2008 |
We The People… , Art league Houston, TX |
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Mechanical perception, presented by FotoFest, Houston, TX. |
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Puberty, Haugar Art Museum, Tonsburg, Norway |
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Continuity and Change: Islamic Tradition in contemporary Art,
Willliamsburg Art& Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York |
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| 2007 |
Artadia at Diverseworks…reprised,” Diversework, Houston |
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Best of Texas Biennial, San Antonio, Texas |
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Texas Biennial, Dougherty Art Center, Austin |
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| 2006 |
Perspectives 152: 4 Artists 4 Stories, Contemporary Musuem of Art Houston, Ground, the Cultural Arts Council of Houston Fellowship Series, Houston, TX. |
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| 2005 |
Spell of Childhood, Backlight05: The 7.Int. photography triennial,
Tampere Art Museum, Tampee, Finland |
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REALITÄTEN II : Gesellschaftswerte, Fotogallerie Wien, Vienna, Austria |
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Co-existance, Lawndale Art Center. Houston, Texas |
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Pingyao International Photography Exhibition, Pingayo, China |
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Happy Nude Year, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas |
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| 2004 |
The 2004 national graduate Seminar Fellows exhibtion , the LeRoy Neiman gallery, New York |
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Sharpening The Point, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas |
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| 2003 |
Layered Evidence, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas |
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Houston Center of Photography Fellowship Exhibition, Houston, Texas |
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Open Exhibition, Visual Art Alliance, Houston, Texas |
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| 2002 |
Northlight Southwest 2002, Northlight Gallery, ASU, Tucson, Arizona |
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Membership Exhibition, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Texas |
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Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas |
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| 2001 |
Membership Exhibition, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Texas |
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Graduate Student Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas |
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| 2000 |
Graduate Student Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas |
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PUBLICATIONS AND PANEL |
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| 2010 |
IANN: focus on growing up, Vol #5 |
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| 2008 |
“Cover page,” European Photography Art magazine, No.82 |
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| 2006 |
“Soody Sharifi,” European Photography, Art Magazine, No. 79/80 |
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“My Work” Houston Chronicle Zest, July2, 2006 |
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“Exposures: Beneat the Hijab” PDN’S 30, March 2006 |
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“Purkantuoksuinen Iran” Image, 03/2006, Finland |
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“Direction” A Magazine #3, London, England |
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| 2005 |
“Iran-Her motherland, his first trip-supplied setting for mother-son exhibit” Austin American Statement, April 21 |
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“Livers” Liberacion[Paris], June 2005 |
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“ private Meetings,” Livraison, No. 1 Spring/Winter 2005, Stockholm,
Sweden |
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“Teinit on teineja,” Suomen Kuvalehti, 40/2005, Finland |
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“ Islam’s Long War Within” Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Autumn 2005, Volume 33, Number 2. Boston |
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“Soody Sharifi with Payam Sharifi: Proud and Sad, Wrong and Strong,”Glasstire: Texas visual art online, 04/05 |
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“Grand Angle” Ados d’Iran… comme d’ailleurs, Libéraction, Paris, 12/24 |
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Soody Sharifi’s Photography, SME Kultura, Bratislava, Slovakia. 4/11 |
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| 2004 |
Cover page of Chronogram Arts. Culture. Spirit, Mid-Hudson Magazine of Events & Ideas, 11/04m
Invited Panelist on Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Digital photography, American Society of Aesthetics 62nd annual meeting, October 27-30; Houston, Texas. |
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“Iranian teenagers are no different, M Publication[Germany], Volume3 Surprise Issue |
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“Simply Girls: Teenagers in Iran, Tatonic Weekend press cover page,
September 2-8 “put on your Sunday best, or Friday best or whatever…”; Cross Magazine, (issue 1, winter), Milan, Italy |
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| 2003 |
“A Guide to Ecstacity”; Nigel Coates, Author, London: Booth-Clibborn, Publisher |
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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun; Fluid Magazine, (issue 30, June), Poland |
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AWARDS |
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Grant recipient, Artadia The Fund for Art and Diologue, New York |
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Cultural art Council of Houston individual artist grant recipient |
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National Graduate Seminar Nominee, Columbia University, New York, NY |
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Photography Fellowship, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Texas |
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