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Shoja Azari (Persian: شجاع آذری) is an Iranian-born visual artist and filmmaker based in New York City.[1] He is known for his films and multimedia installations.

Shoja Azari
Azari in 2009
Born	(1957-09-18) 18 September 1957 (age 64)[citation needed] Shiraz, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Occupation	Artist filmmaker photographer

Early life and education

Azari was born in Shiraz, Iran.[2] Azari trained as a filmmaker in New York in the 1970s before returning to Iran during the Iranian Revolution in 1979.[3] 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”.[4] Azari and Neshat became artistic and romantic partners.[4] He is divorced and has one son, Johnny B. Azari, a musician.[4]

Film

Azari is known for films such as Women Without Men (2009), Windows (2006), and K (2002). These were based on three of Franz Kafka's short stories: "The Married Couple", "In the Penal Colony", and "A Fratricide", respectively.^{[citation needed]} He co-directed with Neshat the film Land of Dreams (2021), which won the Golden Peacock Award at the 52nd International Film Festival of India.[5]

Multimedia installations and art

According to Carol Kino of The New York Times, Azari's "multimedia installations have been increasingly showcased in galleries and museums around the world."[4] His first solo exhibition in New York occurred in 2010 at the Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery.[4] His video installation work, Idyllic Life (2012), was part of the exhibition In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art (2018) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[6][1]

See also

• Iranian modern and contemporary art
• List of Iranian Americans
• List of Iranian artists

References

External links

• Shoja Azari at the Leila Heller Gallery

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