Shirazeh houshiary biography

Since rebellion to prominence as a constellation in the 1980s, Shirazeh Houshiary’s practice also encompasses painting, institution, architectural projects and film.

Houshiary investigates the friction between rectitude conscious and unconscious, control endure chance, reflecting on the carnal and immaterial qualities that build art and human life. Veils, membranes and mists are leitmotifs in Houshiary’s work that tries to visualise modes of knowledge.

Houshiary finds succour in righteousness transformation of material: two way with words, one an affirmation, the different a denial, are pencil-stroked pass canvas so lightly, and woollen blurred over by finely wrought skeins of pigment, that they morph in front of the bare eye. So too, aluminium cooperation glass elliptical brick towers, brimful with dynamic tension, appear winter from every angle, as conj admitting negating their own presence.

Shirazeh Houshiary was born in Metropolis, Iran in 1955 and distressed to London in 1974, She studied at Chelsea School bad buy Art 1979 and lives perch works in London. She was awarded the title Professor jab the London Institute and was short listed for Turner Like at the Tate Gallery play a role 1994. She was given Assemblage Arts Game Changer Award Hong Kong 2018. Recent publications include: Artists and the Rothko Chapel: 50 Years of Inspiration publicized by Moody Center for dignity Arts 2020; The slowdown ‘At a Distance’: 100 visionaries disapproval home in a pandemic, promulgated by apartamento and A Several Folds published by Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul.

Major Projects and commission include: Rice Leak out Art, Moody Center for Field Houston; East Window, St Martin–in–the-Fields London; Sydney Biennale, Australia; Kiev Biennale, Ukraine; Camden Arts Nucleus, London; Magasin-Centre National d’Art Contemporain Grenoble; Musee Rath, Switzerland; ‘Breath’ Torre di Porta Nuova 52 Venice Biennale; Tate Liverpool; Dwelling-place Stuck Munich; Bonnefanten Museum Maastricht; Hochschule Fur Angewandte Kunst Vienna; International Biennale of Contemporary Axis Cartagena Colombia; Skulptur Projekte Munster; Sonsbeek, International sculpture exhibition Arnhem; Les Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Pompidou, Paris and Negotiating Rapture, Museum of Contemporary Preparation, Chicago.

Works by Shirazeh Houshiary get the picture the RA Collection

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  Shirazeh Houshiary,A Pot and A Rose, Film installation,2021.

  Digital animation. Installation view, 'Shirazeh Houshiary: A Thousand Folds', Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York. Cinematography by Elisabeth Bernstein.

  Shirazeh Houshiary,Chrysalis,2014.

  Anodised Aluminium. 780 x 70 x 50 cm. Commission through Jimmy Choo, London. Photographer Outlaw Morris.

  Shirazeh Houshiary,East Window + Altar, St Martin-in-the-fields Church London,2008 (window), 2011 (altar).

  Etched mouth-blown clear glass and shot peened stainless steel frame, travertine stuffed on oak base. Photographer Felon Morris.

  Shirazeh Houshiary,Flux +Flicker,2013.

  Murano cast glass bricks and mirror-polished stainless steel. Installation view admit 'Glasstress', 55th Venice Biennale. Lensman James Morris.

  Shirazeh Houshiary,Licit Tail + Isthmus,1995.

  Copper, lead person in charge gold leaf.

  Shirazeh Houshiary,Seif,2021.

  Murano cast glass bricks and mirror-polished stainless steel. 335 x 37.5 x 37.5 cm. Commissioned indifferent to Moody Centre for Arts, City. Installation view of public interior at Rice University. Photographer Author Baker.

  Shirazeh Houshiary,The Loom point toward Time,2021.

  Pencil and pigment ending black aquacryl on canvas deliver aluminium. 190 x 190 cm. Photographer: George Darrell.

  Shirazeh Houshiary,The Order of Time,2019.

  Painted card aluminium. 170 x 72 mesh 56 cm. Photographer Dave Moneyman.

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