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Shoja Azari
Shoja Azari at the Vienna International Film Festival in 2009
Born (1957-09-18) 18 September 1957 (age 66)[1]
Shiraz, Iran
NationalityIranian
Occupations
  • Artist
  • filmmaker
  • photographer

Shoja Azari (Persian: شجاع آذری) is an Iranian-born visual artist and filmmaker based in New York City.[2] He is known for films such as Women Without Men (2009), Windows (2006), and K (2002), based on 3 of Franz Kafka's short stories ("The Married Couple", "In the Penal Colony", and "A Fratricide").

Biography

Azari was born in Shiraz, Iran. He is ethnically Persian, despite the last name.[3] Azari trained as a filmmaker in New York in the 1970s before returning to Iran during the Iranian Revolution in 1979.[4] He then permanently returned to the U.S. In 1997, he first met artist Shirin Neshat when she was assembling a team to create her first video, “Turbulent”.[5] Azari and Neshat became artistic and romantic partners.[5]

Azari's film and multimedia installations have been increasingly showcased in galleries and museums around the world.[5] His first solo exhibition in New York occurred in 2010 at the Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery.[5]

He is divorced and has one son, Johnny B. Azari, a musician.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Noire Contemporary Art Gallery Artists". Noire Contemporary Art Gallery. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  2. ^ "FAKE: Idyllic Life by Shoja Azari - review". The Guardian News. theguardian.com. 9 December 2013. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  3. ^ "Shirin Neshat: 'Nothing is more powerful than human expression'". studiointernational.com. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  4. ^ "Artist Uses YouTube And 19th Century Orientalist Painting To Explore Views of the Middle East". huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  5. ^ a b c d e Kino, Carol (19 May 2010). "Shoja Azari Puts New Faces on Islamic History". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
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