Shirazeh Houshiary

Shirazeh Houshiary (* 1955 in Shiraz , Iran ) is a British sculptor from Iran .

Life

Houshiary went to London in 1975 and shortly thereafter studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design . After completing her studies, she was a junior scholar ( Junior Fellow ) at the College of Art in Cardiff from 1979 to 1980 .

Her works were exhibited for the first time in 1982 for a wider audience at the Venice Biennale in the section “Art against AIDS ”. Early works such as The Earth is an Angel (1987) showed the influence of Sufism poetry , particularly Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi , a Persian mystic and one of the most important Persian-speaking poets of the Middle Ages . In contrast, her later works such as The Enclosure of Sanctity (1993) were stricter and placed more emphasis on geometric shapes.

After exhibiting again at the Biennale di Venezia in 1993, she was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994 for her exhibitions in Newcastle upon Tyne , London, Canada and the United States .

Her sculptures can also be seen in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City , the Tate Gallery of Modern Art in London and the Lentos in Linz .

Shirazeh Houshiary, who lives and works in London, is one of the best-known representatives of the so-called New British Sculpture , a group of artists who have worked in the , alongside Tony Cragg , Richard Deacon , Barry Flanagan , Antony Gormley , Anish Kapoor , Julian Opie and Bill Woodrow She began her sculptural work in the 1980s and exhibited for the first time in the Lisson Gallery in London, founded by Nicholas Logsdail in 1967 .

source

• Chambers Biographical Dictionary , pp. 753, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2

Web links

• Shirazeh Houshiary on Lehmannmaupin.com
• Tate Collection