SHOJA AZARI

SHOJA AZARI

b. 1958, Shiraz, Iran

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2013
Solo Exhibition, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming)

2011
There are No Non-Believers in Hell, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France

VIP Art Fair, Leila Heller Gallery, New York NY

2010
There Are No Non-Believers in Hell, Leila Heller Gallery, ZOOM Contemporary Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL

Icons, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY

Icons, Figge Von Rosen Gallery, Koln, Germany

Blazing Grace, East Central Gallery, London, UK

2009
Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Turin, Italy

Oil Paintings, Art Dubai, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY

2008
Figge Von Rosen Gallery, Köln, Germany

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

2007
Special Project, Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Basel Art Fair, Switzerland

2006
Project Rooms, ARCO, Madrid, Spain

Domus Artium Museum Salamanca, Spain

Special Project, Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Exitbart, Torino, Italy

Galleria Il Gabbiano, Rome, Italy

Helga de Alvear Gallery, Madrid, Spain

Figge Von Rosen Gallery, Koln, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012
Cross-Currents: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Pakistan, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado (forthcoming)

Iranian Arts NOW!, Contemporary Iranian Arts Festival, The Arts Arena, Paris, France

The Rule and Its Exception, Leila Heller Gallery / Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX

The Elephant in the Dark, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, India

2011
Art Beat Fair, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY

[Dis]Locating Culture: Contemporary Islamic Art in America, Curated by Reem Alalusi, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Art Dubai, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY

2010
CONTRAVIOLENCIAS, Artistic practices against the aggression to women, Curated by Piedad Solans, KM Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain

Abu Dhabi Art, Leila Heller Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE

On Rage, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

In Defence, Progetto 107, Turin, Italy

Live Art/Expanded, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK

Art Dubai, LEILA HELLER Gallery, Dubai, UAE

Tehran-New York, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY

2009
Iran Inside Out, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY

Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba

L’Iran sans Frontiere, curated by Negui and Kamran Diba, Galerie Almine Rech,
Paris, France

ViVA Show, LOOP Alternative Space, Seoul, Korea

Selseleh/Zelzeleh: Movers & Shakers in Contemporary Iranian Art, curated by
Layla S. Diba, LEILA HELLER Gallery, New York, NY

2008
Park and Castle of Acciaiolo-Scandicci, Florence, Italy

Galleria San Fedele, Milan, Italy

Civic Project, Tijuana, Mexico

St. Moritz art masters, St Moritz, Switzerland

Splash, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY

2007
Camm, Centro Atlantico de Arte Contemporaneo, Las Palmas, Spain.

Video Dia Loghi festival, Torino, Italy

Petach-Tikva Museum of Art, Petach-Tikva, Israel

Santral Istanbul, Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

2nd Moscow Biennale

Kunstfilm Videonale, Koln, Germany

2006
Emergencies: the inaugural show of MUSAC, Museo de Arte

Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, Spain

2005
After the Revolution: Contemporary Artists from Iran, curated by Octavio Zaya,
at the Koldo Mitxelena in San Sebastián, Spain


Filmography

2013
Umm Kulthum, in collaboration with Shirin Neshat (forthcoming)

I am the Revolution (forthcoming)

2009
Paradise Feature length film script.

2008
Women Without Men, in collaboration with Shirin Neshat. (110 minutes, 35
mm color)

Faezeh, in Collaboration with Shirin Neshat (14 minutes video installation)

Munis, in collaboration with Shirin Neshat (12 minutes video installation)

Odyssey short film high definition video shot in Morocco.

2007
Converted, Feature length script

2006
Windows, a feature length film, shot in New York

2005
Zarin, in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, (Color, shot in super 35 mm film in Morocco) 20 minutes

2004
Mahdokht, in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, (shot in Morocco, color, super 35 mm, 12 minutes)

2003
Maria de Los Angeles, feature length film shot in Mexico (color, DV 57 minutes)

The Last Word, In collaboration with Shirin Neshat, (35 mm, color, 20 minutes)

2002
K, a feature length film based on 3 short stories by Franz Kafka, shot in USA and Morocco, 85 minutes

2001
Toob, in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, (Color, shot in 35 mm film in Mexico) 13 minutes

Logic of the Birds, (Color & B/W, shot in 16 mm film in USA) 55 minutes program (performance/film) (2001-2003)

2000
Pulse, in collaboration with Shirin Neshat (B/W, shot in 16 mm film in Morocco) 7 minutes

Possessed, in collaboration with Shirin Neshat (B/W & Color, shot in 16 mm and 35 mm film in Morocco) 12 minutes

Passage, in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, (Color, shot in 35 mm film in Morocco) 11 minutes 30 seconds

1999
Fervoi, in collaboration with Shirin Neshat (B/W, shot in 16 mm film in Morocco) 10 minutes

Rapture, in collaboration with Shirin Neshat (B/W, shot in 16 mm film in Morocco) 13 minutes

Soliloquy, in collaboration with Shirin Neshat (Color, shot in 16 mm color film in Turkey & USA) 17 minutes

1998
The Story of the Merchant and the Indian Parrot (Color, shot in 35mm film in New York), 30 minutes

Turbulent, in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, (B/W, shot in 16 mm film in NY) 10 minutes

Selected Film Screenings

2009
Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy

2008
Locarno International Film Festival, Locarno, Switzerland

2007
Las Palmas International film festival, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria

2006
Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY

Locarno International Film Festival, Locarno, Switzerland

San Diego International Film Festival, San Diego, CA

Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin, Germany

2005
Hiroshima Contemporary Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan

Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

ArteEast Cinema, New York, NY

2004
Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY

2003
Gutek Poland International Film Festival, Gutek, Poland

Asia Art Society, New York, NY

Cantor Film Center: New York University, New York, NY

Yale University, New Haven, CT

IFP, Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA

Moscow Film Festival, Moscow, Soviet Union

2002
Belgrade Film Festival, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY

59th Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy

43rd International Thessaloniki Film Festival, Thessaloniki,
Greece

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Selected Publications

2010
Exhibition Catalogue, Icons, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY

2008
Exhibition Catalogue, Silence, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

2007
Exhibition Catalogue, Galleria Gabbiano, Rome, Italy

Exhibition Catalogue, Camm, Cetero Atlantico de Arte Contemporano, Las

Palmas, Spain

2006
Exhibition Catalogue, Emergencias, Museo de Arte Cotnemporaneo de
Castilla y León, Spain

Exhibition Catalogue, After the Revolution: Contemporary, San Sebastián,
Spain.

WINDOWS, Exhibition Book, Dumas Artium, Salamanca, Spain

Convergences, Exhibition Catalogue, Madrid, Spain

Exhibition Catalogue Galleria de Gabbiano, Rome, Italy.

2005
Conversation: Shoja Azari & Octavio Zaya, Atlantica, Spain


Selected Articles/Reviews

2010
Artists of All Faiths Walk Sacrilege Line, Blake Gopnik, Washington Post, December 3

Shoja Azari, Eleanor Heartney, Art in America, October 7

Putting New Faces on Islamic History, Carol Kino, The New York Times, May 23

Shoja Azari with Phong Bui, Phong Bui, The Brooklyn Rail, May

Icons, Shoja Azari, by Dan Geist, Tehran Bureau, May 13

New Works by Shoja Azari at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, by Bernice
Ashook, Art Knowledge, May 6

Six New Video Works, by Shoja Azari at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery,
Artdaily.org

Shoja Azar,i by Nazy Nazhand, artinfo.com, May 13

Blazing Grace, by Martin Newman, Mirror.co.UK Opinion

9 mal 13 zentimeter heimat, by Annette Grossbongardat, Der Spiegel

Women without Men, by Stephan Faber, Hollywood Reporter

Women without Men, by Ernest Hardly, LA Weekly

2009
Women without Men, by Jay Weissberg, Variety


2008
Meditation Fur Einen Blick, eine Stimme Und ein Cello

Frankfurter All Gemeine Zeitung, 31

Apokalypse jetzt, Kolner Stadtanzeiger, 21

2007
Through the Window, Exit Magazine # 26.

Spaces in Between, by Gil Golfin. The Jerusalem Post

2006
Pablicato Marted, by Olga Gambardi. Flash art

Shoja Azari, tres el crystal, by Javier Hernando, El Cultural, El Mundo

La Ventana indiscreta, by Laura revuelta, ABC

Shoja Azari, Soy un hombre siniddentidad, sin fronteras, by Javier Diaz-Guardiola, ABC

Before the pain of the others, by Juan Albarran, Art.es, International Contemporary Art, no.12/13, Spain

Opening the lid bordering Windows: A conversation with Octavio Zaya, Atlantica

Windows, Aaron Hills-Premiere Magazine.

Windows, John Anderson-Variety Magazine

2005
Emergencias, review by Rafael Lopez Borrego, Homines.com, March 22

It was in China late one moonless night, by Hamid dabashi, Social Research Magazine.

2003
K, article by Morteza Neghai, Kayhan Newspaper, Sept 26

2002
K, review by David Stratton, Variety Magazine, Sept. 9Cornell Chronicle, Nov. 21

An epic Journey in Images and sounds, by Ann Midgette, New York times.

The exotic and the everyday, by Richard Williams Guardian, London.

Logic of the birds, by Alex O’connell, Times Online.

Iran To you, by Charles McNulty, The village Voice, New York.

The flock of the new, by Rose Aidin, The Observer.

Theater; An Islamic culture in all its beauty, by Amei Wallach, New York Times


Selected Essays written by Shoja Azari

2006
Beyond Identity Politics, Shirin Neshat, The 6th Hiroshima Art Prize Catalogue,
Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

In Conversation, Shirin Neshat’s Exhibition Catalogue, Gladstone Gallery, published by Charta

2001
Shirin Neshat, Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada


Multi-Media Performance

2012
Overruled, in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, Performa 11, New York, NY

2003
Change, Palermo, Italy, Belgium

2002
The Lincoln Summer Festival, in New York, NY

Art Angel, London, UK

2001
Logic of the Birds, in collaboration with Shirin Neshat, Sussan Deyhim, and
Ghasem Ebrahimian, in New York, Minneapolis, London, Siracusa, and Brugg