SHIRAZEH HOUSHIARY
Shirazeh Houshiary was born in Shiraz, Iran 1955. She moved to London in 1974 and studied at the Chelsea School of Art between 1976-1979. Houshiary quickly became established at the forefront of the younger generation of sculptors working in Britain in the 1980s. Her solo shows include the Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York 1999, 2003, 2006 and 2010; The Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneve 1988, which then toured to the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in 1989; and Isthmus, which showed at Magasin - Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble before touring extensively across Vienna between 1995-1996. Most recently, her work has been included in the XXIII Bienal de Sao Paulo in 1996, 10 Intensite In Europa at Centroper l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato 1998, Skultur: a Brick Intervention, Basel in 2000, the Skulptur Biennian Munsterland in 2003, Art and Happiness Mori Art Museum Tokyo 2003, Turning Points 20th Century British Sculpture, at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in 2004, Without Boundary, at the Museum of Modern Art 2006, What is Painting, MOMA New York 2007, Deloitte Ignite, Roya Opera House London 2008, Between Metaphor and Object, IMMA Dublin 2009 and the Sydney Biennale 2010. Houshiary was short-listed for the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery in 1994 and was awarded the title Professor at the London Institute in 1997. Houshiary lives and works in London.