Houshiary, Shirazeh
Date of birth and death: 1955-Nationality: Iranian, English
Uploaded artworks: 27Shirazeh Houshiary is an Iranian installation artist and sculptor. She lives and works in London. She was born in Shiraz, Iran in 1955. Having moved to London in the early 1970’s Houshiary graduated from the Chelsea School of Art in 1979 emerging with a group of artist that included Anish Kapoor and Richard Deacon. In Europe she is well known for her sculptures in which she seeks to investigate spiritual principles and abstract forms. She was a nominee for the 1994 Turner Prize. In 2008, the St Martin-in-the-Fields Church in London unveiled a commission by Shirazeh Houshiary and Pip Horne for the East Window. Houshiary's work is included in numerous public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and The Tate Collection, London. In 2005, Creative Time commissioned Houshiary and Pip Horne for their Creative Time Art on the Plaza series where the monumental Breath tower was exhibited in New York City. Another example of this work was also included in Feri Daftari's exhibition Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking at the Museum of Modern Art in 2006.
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Houshiary, Shirazeh
Untitled
Date: 2008 Movement: Art Now / Recent Theme: Abstract Technique: Mixed technique
Houshiary, Shirazeh
Veil
Date: 1999 Movement: Art Now / Recent Theme: Abstract Technique: Mixed technique
Houshiary, Shirazeh
Untitled
Date: 2008 Movement: Art Now / Recent Theme: Abstract Technique: Mixed technique
Houshiary, Shirazeh
Untitled (I)
Date: 2003 Movement: Art Now / Recent Theme: Abstract Technique: Mixed technique
Houshiary, Shirazeh
The Angel of Thought
Date: 1987 Movement: Art Now / Recent Theme: Abstract Technique: Mixed technique
Houshiary, Shirazeh
Commission in the Saint Martin-in-the Fields
Date: 2008 Movement: Art Now / Recent Theme: Architecture Technique: Other/Unknown
Houshiary, Shirazeh
Beating of her Wings II
Date: 1987 Movement: Art Now / Recent Theme: Abstract Technique: Mixed technique
Houshiary, Shirazeh
Untitled
Date: 2005 Movement: Art Now / Recent Theme: Abstract Technique: Mixed technique
Houshiary, Shirazeh
Web
Date: 2005 Movement: Art Now / Recent Theme: Abstract Technique: Mixed technique
Houshiary, Shirazeh
Untitled
Date: 2007 Movement: Art Now / Recent Theme: Abstract Technique: Mixed technique
Houshiary, Shirazeh
Flicker
Date: 2003 Movement: Art Now / Recent Theme: Abstract Technique: Mixed technique
Houshiary, Shirazeh
Untitled (XI)
Date: 2003 Movement: Art Now / Recent Theme: Abstract Technique: Mixed technique
Houshiary, Shirazeh
Veil
Date: 2006 Movement: Art Now / Recent Theme: Abstract Technique: Other/Unknown
Houshiary, Shirazeh
Memory
Date: 2005 Movement: Art Now / Recent Theme: Abstract Technique: Mixed technique