Shirazeh Houshiary

Shirazeh Houshiary ( born 1955 in Shiraz, Iran) is a native of Iran, British sculptor.

Life

Houshiary went to London in 1975 and studied shortly afterwards at Chelsea College of Art and Design. After finishing her studies she was from 1979 to 1980 junior scholars ( Junior Fellow ) at the College of Art in Cardiff.

Their works were exhibited for the first time in 1982 to a wider audience at the Biennale di Venezia in the local section "Art against AIDS". Early works such as The Earth is an Angel (1987 ) showed the influence of the poetry of Sufism and particularly of Jalal ad-Din ar - Rumi, a Persian mystic and one of the greatest Persian-language poet of the Middle Ages. In contrast, their later works such as The Enclosure of Sanctity (1993 ) were more severe, and put more emphasis on geometric shapes.

After she again exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1993, she received a 1994 nomination for the Turner Prize for her exhibitions in Newcastle upon Tyne, London, Canada and the United States.

Her sculptures are also on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Tate Gallery of Modern Art in London and at the Lentos in Linz.

Shirazeh Houshiary who lives and works in London, heard next to Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Barry Flanagan, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Julian Opie and Bill Woodrow the most famous representative of the so-called New British Sculpture, a group of artist who in the 1980 her sculptural work began and the first time exhibited in the founded by Nicholas Logsdail 1967 Lisson Gallery in London.

Source

• Chambers Biographical Dictionary, p 753, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2