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Soody Sharifi

   

SOODY SHARIFI

Born in 1955, Tehran, Iran
Since 1974, resides in Houston, Texas
   
 
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EDUCATION
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2004 Master of Fine Arts in Studio Photography, University of Houston
1982 Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineering, University of Houston
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RESIDENCIES
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2010 Stiftung Kunstledorf Schoppingen, Germany
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2010 Assumption of others, Gallery F15, Oslo, Norway
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2007 Garden of Persian Delight, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston
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2006 Teenagers and Maxiatures, Northern photographic Center, Helsinki, Finland
Proud and Sad / Wrong and Strong, Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas
Moslem Teenagers, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
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2004 Moslem Teenagers, Dom Fotografie, Poprad, Slovakia
Simply Girls, Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
Veiled / Unveiled, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas
2002 Women of Cover, Hungry’s gallery, FotoFest, Houston, Texas
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2012

Soody Sharifi will be presenting her work at the following venues for the Jameel prize tour.

Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
6 Dec 2011 – 4 March 2012
Private view: Monday 5th December
Website

Casa Arabe, Madrid
Late March to mid July 2012
Website

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
September - November 2012
Website

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
December 2012 - March 2013 (Venue’s preferred dates December 12,
2012 through Sunday, March 10, 2013)
Website

New York TBC - VENUE CONSIDERING
March/April – June/July 2013

   
2009 Baku Biennale, December 15, Baku Russia
Emancipated, Haggerty gallery Dallas, TX
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2008 We The People… , Art league Houston, TX
Mechanical perception, presented by FotoFest, Houston, TX.
Puberty, Haugar Art Museum, Tonsburg, Norway
Continuity and Change: Islamic Tradition in contemporary Art,
Willliamsburg Art& Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York
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2007

Artadia at Diverseworks…reprised,” Diversework, Houston
Best of Texas Biennial, San Antonio, Texas
Texas Biennial, Dougherty Art Center, Austin

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2006 Perspectives 152: 4 Artists 4 Stories, Contemporary Musuem of Art Houston,
Ground, the Cultural Arts Council of Houston Fellowship Series, Houston, TX.
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2005

Spell of Childhood, Backlight05: The 7.Int. photography triennial,
Tampere Art Museum, Tampee, Finland
REALITÄTEN II : Gesellschaftswerte, Fotogallerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
Co-existance, Lawndale Art Center. Houston, Texas
Pingyao International Photography Exhibition, Pingayo, China
Happy Nude Year, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas

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2004 The 2004 national graduate Seminar Fellows exhibtion , the LeRoy Neiman gallery
New York
Sharpening The Point, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas
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2003 Layered Evidence, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
Houston Center of Photography Fellowship Exhibition, Houston, Texas
Open Exhibition, Visual Art Alliance, Houston, Texas
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2002 Northlight Southwest 2002, Northlight Gallery, ASU, Tucson, Arizona
Membership Exhibition, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Texas
Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
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2001 Membership Exhibition, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Texas
Graduate Student Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas
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2000 Fresh Mix, Video Installation, Community Artist’s Collective, Houston, Texas
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PUBLICATIONS AND PANEL
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2010 IANN: focus on growing up, Vol #5,
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2008 “Cover page,” European Photography Art magazine, No.82
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2006

“Soody Sharifi,” European Photography, Art Magazine, No. 79/80
“My Work” Houston Chronicle Zest, July2, 2006
“ Exposures: Beneat the Hijab” PDN’S 30, March 2006
“Purkantuoksuinen Iran” Image, 03/2006, Finland
“Direction” A Magazine #3, London, England

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2005

“Iran-Her motherland, his first trip-supplied setting for mother-son exhibit” Austin American Statement, April 21
“Livers” Liberacion[Paris], June 2005
“ private Meetings,” Livraison, No. 1 Spring/Winter 2005, Stockholm,
Sweden
“Teinit on teineja,” Suomen Kuvalehti, 40/2005, Finland
“ Islam’s Long War Within” Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Autumn 2005, Volume 33, Number 2. Boston
“Soody Sharifi with Payam Sharifi: Proud and Sad, Wrong and Strong,”Glasstire: Texas visual art online, 04/05
“Grand Angle” Ados d’Iran… comme d’ailleurs, Libéraction, Paris, 12/24
Soody Sharifi’s Photography, SME Kultura, Bratislava, Slovakia. 4/11

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2004

Cover page of Chronogram Arts. Culture. Spirit, Mid-Hudson Magazine of Events & Ideas, 11/04m
Invited Panelist on Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Digital photography, American Society of Aesthetics 62nd annual meeting, October 27-30; Houston, Texas.
“Iranian teenagers are no different, M Publication[Germany], Volume3 Surprise Issue
“Simply Girls: Teenagers in Iran, Tatonic Weekend press cover page,
September 2-8
“put on your Sunday best, or Friday best or whatever…”; Cross Magazine,
(issue 1, winter), Milan, Italy

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2003 “A Guide to Ecstacity”; Nigel Coates, Author, London: Booth-Clibborn, Publisher
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun; Fluid Magazine, (issue 30, June), Poland
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AWARDS
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2006 Grant recipient, Artadia The Fund for Art and Diologue, New York
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2005 Cultural art Council of Houston individual artist grant recipient
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2004 National Graduate Seminar Nominee, Columbia University, New York, NY
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2003 Photography Fellowship, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Texas
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