Shoja Azari

Shoja Azari (Persian: شجاع آذری‎) is an Iranian-born visual artist and filmmaker based in New York City.[2] He is known for films such as Women Without Men (2009), Windows (2006), and K (2002), based on 3 of Franz Kafka's short stories ("The Married Couple", "In the Penal Colony", and "A Fratricide").

Shoja Azari
Shoja Azari at the Vienna International Film Festival in 2009
Born (1957-09-18) 18 September 1957[1]
Shiraz, Iran
NationalityIranian
Occupation
  • Artist
  • filmmaker
  • photographer

Biography

Azari was born in Shiraz, Iran. He is ethnically Persian, despite the last name.[3] Azari trained as a filmmaker in New York in the 1970s before returning to Iran during the Iranian Revolution in 1979.[4] 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”.[5] Azari and Neshat became artistic and romantic partners.[5]

Azari's film and multimedia installations have been increasingly showcased in galleries and museums around the world.[5] His first solo exhibition in New York occurred in 2010 at the Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery.[5]

He is divorced and has one son, Johnny B. Azari, a musician.[5]

References
  1. "Noire Contemporary Art Gallery Artists". Noire Contemporary Art Gallery. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  2. "FAKE: Idyllic Life by Shoja Azari - review". The Guardian News. theguardian.com. 9 December 2013. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  3. "Shirin Neshat: 'Nothing is more powerful than human expression'". studiointernational.com. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  4. "Artist Uses YouTube And 19th Century Orientalist Painting To Explore Views of the Middle East". huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  5. Kino, Carol (19 May 2010). "Shoja Azari Puts New Faces on Islamic History". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
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