Shoja Azari
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Born | citation needed] Shiraz, Iran | 18 September 1957 [
Nationality | Iranian |
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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[]
- ^ "FAKE: Idyllic Life by Shoja Azari - review". The Guardian News. theguardian.com. 9 December 2013. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ^ "Artist Uses YouTube And 19th Century Orientalist Painting To Explore Views of the Middle East". huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ^ 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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- 1957 births
- Living people
- Iranian contemporary artists
- Iranian film directors
- Iranian emigrants to the United States