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Houshiary was born in Shiraz, Iran. She initially trained in theatre, turning to the visual arts after her arrival in London in She studied at Chelsea School of Art, London , was Junior Fellow, Cardiff College of Art, , and her first solo exhibition was subsequently at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff in She quickly became established at the forefront of the younger generation of sculptors working in Britain in the s, and her work was included in important group exhibitions such as Aperto '82, XL Venice Biennale in , and Les Magiciens de la Terre at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris in Houshiary's first solo show at the Lisson Gallery, London was in , and she has continued to show there on a regular basis ever since. She had her first solo exhibition in New York at Lehmann Maupin gallery in , and a second in The Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genève organised a solo museum show for the Musée Rath, Geneva in , which then toured to the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in Her solo exhibition, Ithmus, was first shown at Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, before touring to the Museum Villa Stuck, München, the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, and Hoc
Shirazeh Houshiary rose to prominence in the s as part of a group of young sculptors, including Anish Kapoor (b. ) and Richard Deacon (b. ), practicing in Britain. In addition to her sculptural works and installations, Houshiary is known for her meticulous drawings and paintings of amorphous geometrical bodies and membranes that appear posed between transformative states. Houshiary is deeply inspired by Sufism, particularly the work of 13th-century Sufi poet Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, whose words she often interlaces into her images in an extremely time and labor intensive process. These drawn images that incorporate Arabic calligraphic script can take the artist between six to seven weeks to finish as she carefully traces over the words in graphite, intently focused yet lost in the repetitious nature of the act. Fusing her Persian heritage with arcs of Western contemporary art, Houshiary's work ultimately reflects an inward quest of the artist, who has "set out to capture my breath," to "find the essence of my own existence, transcending name, nationality, cultures."[1]
Houshiary was born in Shiraz, Iran, in , and moved to London in She studied at the Chelsea School of Art,
Shirazeh Houshiary
Shirazeh Houshiary (b. , Shiraz, Iran; lives and works in London, United Kingdom) makes painting, sculpture, and animation that seek to challenge viewers’ perceptions of time, space, and materiality. Her works often engage opposing ideas and states of being, including transparency and opacity, sound and silence, surface and depth, and presence and absence. From a distance, her paintings are reminiscent of a swirling galaxy, but as the viewer draws closer, the meticulousness, detail, and hidden Arabic letters that make up her amorphous forms begin to unfold. The universe, with its contradiction, paradox, and complexity is a core subject matter in her work. The Arabic words embedded in her compositions are a juxtaposition of the opposing phrases “I am” and “I am not,” oscillating freely between focused and unfocused states, where the meaning of our existence becomes superfluous and lost in Houshiary’s imagined cosmos.
Houshiary’s painting technique involves the successive layering of pigment and line, a laborious process that often takes several months to complete. Her surfaces are composed of intricate patterns that
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