Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia - Queensland Art Gallery

Leandro ERLICH
b.1973 Argentina
Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Paris, France
In Leandro Erlich’s installations, familiar spaces such as apartment buildings, hairdressing salons, and gallery spaces
are used in unexpected and confounding ways. Basic laws of physics are seemingly inverted, and viewers are plunged
into environments that both confuse and delight the senses.
Kota EZAWA
b.1969 Germany
Lives and works in San Francisco, United States
Kota Ezawa describes his practice as a form of 'video archaeology'. Drawing on sources as diverse as the OJ Simpson
trial and the 1969 Moon landing, Ezawa recasts his subjects in simple stills and animations, the results having been
described as a cross between Andy Warhol and South Park.
Monir Shahroudy FARMANFARMAIAN
b.1924 Iran
Lives and works in Tehran, Iran
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian has forged a distinguished career spanning over 50 years. Inspired by the traditions
of Islamic geometry and pattern and by techniques such as reverse glass painting, mirror mosaic and relief sculpture,
Farmanfarmaian has revived and transformed these forms to create startlingly original works.
Spencer FINCH
b.1962 United States
Lives and works in New York, United States
Spencer Finch explores the peculiarities of human perception, bringing a combination of poetic sensibility and scientific
rigour to a range of media, including painting, drawing, photography and installation. Light is the preeminent subject of
his practice and he considers how our experience of it is inflected by a diverse set of subjective and objective factors
such as geography, time, history and memory.
Parastou FOROUHAR
b.1962 Iran
Lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany
Parastou Forouhar grew up in Tehran, and was one of the first students enrolled at Tehran University’s Academy of the
Arts after it reopened in 1984, following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. While there, Forouhar explored the tradition of
Persian miniature painting as a structure within which to test new ideas. In 1991, she left Iran to continue her studies in
Germany, where she found her identity shift from Parastou Forouhar into an ‘Iranian artist’.
Andrea FRASER
b.1965 United States
Lives and works in Los Angeles, United States
Andrea Fraser began exhibiting in the United States in the mid 1980s. Much of her work is concerned with the
hierarchical structures of the art world and the relationships between its constituent parts: museums, curators, collectors,
artists and audiences.