Shirazeh Houshiary
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Shirazeh Houshiary buries every point of departure that might define an origin. "I set out to capture my breath," she says, to "find the essence of my own existence, transcending name, nationality, cultures." (Shirazeh Houshiary, 2000) Born in Shiraz, Iran, Houshiary enrolled at the Chelsea School of Art in 1976 and has lived in London ever since. Houshiary's paintings are elusive, barely visible, and they change in our vision over time - they refuse to be frozen into a finite moment, of the kind that could be captured by a camera. They intentionally stand at the very edge of perception, the signs both emerging from nothingness and simultaneously melting back into it. Yet these paintings painstakingly record a process of obstinate mark making, of personal gestures inscribing time, of checking the pressure of one's presence, the precision of one's vision, against the resistant surface. (Fereshteh Daftari, "Beyond Islamic roots - beyond Modernism", Res 43, Spring 2003: Islamic Arts.)Shirazeh Houshiary lives and works in London, UK
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Shirazeh Houshiary Press
Financial Times 12 October 2011
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Building, 9th April 2010
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Between Between, 5th September 2008
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Art World, June - July 2008
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Shirazeh Houshiary, 2003
Fereshteh Daftari, "Beyond Islamic Roots – Beyond Modernism", Res 43, Spring 2003. Copyright by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted by Permission of the Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University.
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Fereshteh Daftari, "Beyond Islamic Roots – Beyond Modernism", Res 43, Spring 2003. Copyright by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted by Permission of the Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University.
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Shirazeh Houshiary Exhibitions
Shirazeh Houshiary October 11 - November 3, 1984
Shirazeh Houshiary Public Exhibitions
PASTArsenale: The First Kyiv international biennale
Arsenale, Kiev
24 May - 31 July 2012
Arsenale
17th Biennale of Sydney - The Beauty and the Distance
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
12 May – 1 August 2010
Biennale of Sydney
Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking
Group Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
February 26 - May 22 2006
MoMA
Shirazeh Houshiary Images

Undoing the Knot, 2008 Anodized aluminium bricks and polished stainless steel height 658 cm; ellipse 99 cm x 75 cm

Bloom, 2006 Aluminium and steel 608.5 x 99.3 x 99.3 cm Photo: Hirofumi Tani

Mist, 2008 Red and Blue pencil on white aquacryl on canvas 100 x 100 cm

Flicker, 2008 Blue and white pencil on black aquacryl on canvas 70 x 70 cm

Coalesce, 2008 Blue pencil on white aquacryl on canvas 70 x 70 cm

Quiver, 2008 Blue pencil on black aquacryl on canvas 70 x 70 cm

Vein, 2006 Blue and red pencil on white aquacryl, white gesso on canvas 190 x 190 cm

Loom, 2008 Anodized aluminum bricks and steel cable Height 275 cm; ellipse 43 cm x 32 cm

Shirazeh Houshiary and Pip Horne Commission for St Martin-in-the- Fields, London, 2008 Etched mouth blown clear glass and shot peened stainless steel frame
Shirazeh Houshiary Contact
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