Shoja Azari
Shoja Azari | |
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 Shoja Azari at the Vienna International Film Festival in 2009 | |
| Born | September 18, 1957[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, filmmaker, photographer |
Shoja Azari is an Iranian-born visual artist and filmmaker based in New York City,[2] known for 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").
Azari was born in Shiraz, Iran, trained as a filmmaker in New York in the 1970s before returning to Iran for the Revolution in 1979.[3] He then permanently returned to the U.S., where he later became artistic and romantic partners with artist Shirin Neshat. Azari's film and multimedia installations have been increasingly showcased in galleries and museums around the world.[4] He is ethnic Persian despite the last name.[5]
References
- ^ "Noire Contemporary Art Gallery Artists". Noire Contemporary Art Gallery. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
- ^ "FAKE: Idyllic Life by Shoja Azari - review | World news | theguardian.com". theguardian.com. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
- ^ "Artist Uses YouTube And 19th Century Orientalist Painting To Explore Views of the Middle East". huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
- ^ "The New York Times". nytimes.com. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
- ^ "Shirin Neshat: 'Nothing is more powerful than human expression'". studiointernational.com. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
External links
- Kino, Carol (May 19, 2010). "Putting New Faces on Islamic History". The New York Times. New York, NY: The New York Times. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
- "Noire Contemporary Art Gallery Artists". Retrieved June 16, 2014.
