Shirana Shahbazi

Born:
1974
Residence:
Zürich, Switzerland
Nationality:
Iranian
Trust:
APT London
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  • Persian artist Shirana Shahbazi’s first comprehensive retrospective is about a life spent manipulating the colors of reality.

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  • The Museum of Modern Art in New York has shown its contempt for President Trump’s heavily criticized executive order — which bans citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States — by installing 12 works by artists from those countries.

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  • Today a wide-ranging group of artists, curators, critics, and other art types signed an open letter opposing President Trump’s executive order, which places restrictions of varying timespans on non-U.S. citizens traveling from seven majority-Muslim countries.

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  • The Museum of Modern Art in New York has hung part of its permanent collection to showcase works by artists from Muslim nations in an act of solidarity with the citizens of the seven countries who have been blocked from entering the United States as a result of President Trump’s recent executive order, Jason Farago of the New York Times reports.

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  • President Trump’s executive order banning travel and rescinding visas for citizens of seven majority-Muslim nations does not lack for opponents in New York — from Kennedy Airport, where striking taxi drivers joined thousands of demonstrators, to the United Nations, whose new secretary general, António Guterres, said the measures “violate our basic principles.”

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  • ‘This work is by an artist from a nation whose citizens are being denied entry to the United States’

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  • How real or abstract is photography? This question has preoccupied photography since its inception. As early as 1859 Oliver Wendell Holmes

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  • “Art Unlimited is always my favourite part of Art Basel because it’s where you see museum-like pieces,” says Alicja Kwade, a 33-year-old Polish-born

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  • Cardi Black Box, the Milan-based contemporary art gallery, announced an exhibition of over 60 works by Iranian-German artist Shirana Shahbazi, on view May 27 through July 26, 2013.

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  • How real or abstract is photography? This question has preoccupied photography since its inception. As early as 1859 Oliver Wendell Holmes

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran, Shirana Shahbazi lives and works in Zurich. Shahbazi’s primary media is photography, which she exhibits as prints or in the form of hand-knotted prayer rugs and wall murals, realized with the aid of Iranian craftsmen and billboard painters. In marked contrast to the expansive themes that characterize her native country’s arts and traditional crafts, Shabazi’s works explore the banal and the mundane, casually staging ordinary scenes and subjects from the countries she visits: Iran, China, the United States. Shahbazi is also known for her seductive images of vanitas, reminiscent of both 17th century Dutch still-lives and sleek advertisement campaigns. Her practice engages with the economy of viewing: playing off of the expectations that accompany cultural readings of imagery. In this way, Shahbazi successfully avoids exotic markers of difference that might situate her subjects within normative codes of visibility.

Shirana Shahbazi has recently presented solo exhibitions at The Breeder, Athens (2010), Cardi Black Box Gallery, Milan (2009), The Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles (2008), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2008), Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2008) and Barbican Art Gallery, London (2007). Her work has also been shown as part of the 6th Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane (2009), “Shifting Identities” at Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich (2008), “The Eternal Flame” at Kunsthaus Baselland, Mutenz (2008), the 4th Berlin biennial for contemporary art, Berlin (2006), the Sharjah Biennial 7, Sharjah (2005) and “Between New Painting and Political Action”, Prague Biennale 2, Prague (2005). In 2002, she was awarded The Citigroup Private Bank Photography Prize, London.

 


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