Shoja Azari

Shoja Azari (Persian: شجاع آذری) is an Iranian-born visual artist and filmmaker based in New York City.[1] He is known for his films and multimedia installations.

Shoja Azari
close-up of Shoja Azari wearing a black jacket, appearing to speak into a handheld microphone, looking right of camera
Azari in 2009
Born (1957-09-18) 18 September 1957
Shiraz, Iran
Occupations
  • Artist
  • filmmaker
  • photographer

Early life and education

Azari was born in Shiraz, Iran.[2] Azari trained as a filmmaker in New York in the 1970s before returning to Iran during the Iranian Revolution in 1979.[3] He then permanently returned to the U.S. In 1997, he first met artist Shirin Neshat when she was assembling a team to create her first video, “Turbulent”.[4] Azari and Neshat became artistic and romantic partners.[4] He is divorced and has one son, Johnny B. Azari, a musician.[4]

Film

Azari is known for films such as Women Without Men (2009), Windows (2006), and K (2002). These were based on three of Franz Kafka's short stories: "The Married Couple", "In the Penal Colony", and "A Fratricide", respectively. He co-directed with Neshat the film Land of Dreams (2021), which won the Golden Peacock Award at the 52nd International Film Festival of India.[5]

Multimedia installations and art

According to Carol Kino of The New York Times, Azari's "multimedia installations have been increasingly showcased in galleries and museums around the world."[4] His first solo exhibition in New York occurred in 2010 at the Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery.[4] His video installation work, Idyllic Life (2012), was part of the exhibition In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art (2018) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[6][1]

See also

References
  1. "FAKE: Idyllic Life by Shoja Azari - review". The Guardian News. theguardian.com. 9 December 2013. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  2. Sanaz, Sanaz Khalaj-Santos (24 January 2011). "Undaunted Art: Interview with Iranian Artist, Shoja Azari". Persianesque Magazine. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  3. "Artist Uses YouTube And 19th Century Orientalist Painting To Explore Views of the Middle East". huffingtonpost.com. 21 November 2013. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  4. Kino, Carol (19 May 2010). "Shoja Azari Puts New Faces on Islamic History". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  5. Shemin, Joy (11 November 2021). "Three Indian films in IFFI's international competition section". Deccan Herald.
  6. "Review | Can art help us understand Iran? A new LACMA exhibit misses the mark". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
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