Shoja Azari

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Shoja Azari
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Shoja Azari at the Vienna International Film Festival in 2009
Born (1957-09-18) 18 September 1957 (age 63)[citation needed]
Shiraz, Iran
NationalityIranian
Occupation
  • Artist
  • filmmaker
  • photographer

Shoja Azari (Persian: شجاع آذری‎) is an Iranian-born visual artist and filmmaker based in New York City.[1] 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").[citation needed]

Biography[]

Azari was born in Shiraz, Iran. Azari trained as a filmmaker in New York in the 1970s before returning to Iran during the Iranian Revolution in 1979.[2] 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”.[3] Azari and Neshat became artistic and romantic partners.[3]

According to Carol Kino of The New York Times, Azari's "multimedia installations have been increasingly showcased in galleries and museums around the world."[3] His first solo exhibition in New York occurred in 2010 at the Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery.[3]

He is divorced and has one son, Johnny B. Azari, a musician.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ "FAKE: Idyllic Life by Shoja Azari - review". The Guardian News. theguardian.com. 9 December 2013. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  2. ^ "Artist Uses YouTube And 19th Century Orientalist Painting To Explore Views of the Middle East". huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  3. ^ Jump up to: 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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