Soody Sharifi
Born in 1955, Tehran, Iran
Since 1974, resides in Houston, Texas
Education:
2004
Master of
Fine Arts in Studio Photography, University of Houston
1982
Bachelor of
Science, Industrial Engineering, University of Houston
Awards:
2006 Grant Recipient, Artadia, The Fund for Art and Dialogue, New York
2005 Cultural Art Council of Houston, Individual Artist Grant Recipient
2004 National
Graduate Seminar Nominee, Columbia University, New York, NY
2003 Photography
Fellowship, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Texas
Selected Individual Exhibitions:
2007 “The Final Maxiatures,” Anya Tish Gallery , Houston, Texas
2006 “Maxiature” Photographic
Center Valokuvia Peri, Kuopio, Finland
“Teenagers and
Maxiatures,” Northern photographic
Center, Helsinki, Finland
2005 Proud
and Sad / Wrong and Strong, Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas
Blue
Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2004 Dom
Fotografie, Poprad, Slovakia
Simply
Girls, Center for
Photography, Woodstock, NY
Veiled
/ Unveiled, with Saida
Fagala, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas
2002 Women
of Cover, FotoFest,
Houston, Texas
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2007 “Continuity and Change: Islamic Tradition in contemporary Art, Willliamsburg
Art &
Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York
Mix! Diverse artists’ approaches, Dallas contemporary
Musuem, Texas.
2006 “4 artists, 4 stories,” Contemporary Art Musuem, Houston, Texas
“Ground,” the Cultural Arts Council of Houston Fellowship Series, Houston, TX.
“Spell of Childhood”, Backlight05: The 7.Int. photography
triennial, Tampere Art
Museum, Tampee, Finland
REALITÄTEN II : Gesellschaftswerte,
Fotogallerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
2005 Co-Existence, Houston, Texas
2004 Pingyao International Photography Exhibition, Pingayo, China
Happy Nude Year, Anya Tish
Gallery, Houston, Texas
National Graduate Seminar Fellowship Exhibition, Columbia University,
New York, NY
2004 Sharpening
The Point, Blaffer
Gallery, Houston, Texas
Layered
Evidence, Lawndale Art
Center, Houston, Texas
2003 Houston
Center of Photography, Fellowship Exhibition, Houston, Texas
Open
Exhibition, Visual Art Alliance, Houston, Texas
2002 Northlight
Southwest 2002, Northlight Gallery, ASU, Tucson, Arizona
Membership
Exhibition, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Texas
Big
Show, Lawndale Art Center,
Houston, Texas
2001 Membership
Exhibition, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Texas
Graduate
Student Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas
2000 Fresh
Mix, Video Installation,
Community Artist’s Collective, Houston, Texas
Publications & Panel
2006 “Contemporary Museum premiere work from Houston Artist”
Houston Lifestyles and homes, Aug.06
“My Work,” Houston
Chronicle Zest, July2, 06
“Houston Fotofest meeting place,” No.5, May 06, Hamburg, Germany
“Art Houston,” FotoFest Meeting Place, pg.12-14, March
“Exposures: Beneath the Hiram” PDN’S 30, March 2006
“Purkantuoksuinen Iran” Image, 03/2006, Finland
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, France, 12/24
2004
Soody
Sharifi’s Photography, SME Kultura, Bratislava,
Slovakia. 4/11
Cover page of Chronogram
Arts. Culture. Spirit, Mid-Hudson Magazine
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.
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
Surprise; M-Publication, (issue 3, winter), Frankfurt, Germany
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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