Aziz art May 2018

Shirazeh Houshiary
born Shiraz 15 January 1955 is an
Iranian installation artist and
sculptor. She is a former Turner
Prize nominee, and lives and
works in London.
Life and work
Shirazeh Houshiary left her native
country of Iran in 1973. She
attended Chelsea School of Art,
London (1976–9) and was a
Cardiff College of Art junior fellow
at (1979–80).
Houshiary was identified with
other young sculptors of her
generation such as
Richard Deacon and Anish Kapoor,
but her work was distinct from
theirs in the strong Persian
influence which it displayed,
though sharing with Kapoor a
spiritual concern. Her ideology
draws on Sufi mystical doctrine
and Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi,
a Persian mystic and poet from
the 13th century.
She was a nominee for the 1994
Turner Prize. In 2008, the St Martinin-the-Fields
Church in London
unveiled a commission by Shirazeh
Houshiary and Pip Horne for the
East Window.Houshiary's work is
included in numerous public and
private collections including the
Museum of Modern Art, New York
and The Tate Collection, London. In
2005, Creative Time commissioned
Houshiary and Pip Horne for their
Creative Time Art on the Plaza
series where the monumental
Breath tower was exhibited in New
York City. Her work was also
included in Feri Daftari's exhibition
Without Boundary: Seventeen
Ways of Looking at the Museum of
Modern Art in 2006 and the 17th
Biennale of Sydney in 2010.
In 2005 (Veil) and 2008
(Shroud),Houshiary worked with
animator Mark Hatchard of Hotbox
Studios to create animations for
gallery installations at the Lehmann
Maupin Gallery in New York and
the Lisson Gallery in London.
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