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About Iranian-born photographer, Shirana SHAHBAZI (b.1974, in Tehran)
Shirana SHAHBAZI moved to Germany in 1985, studying photography and design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund from 1995 to 1997. From 1997 to 2000, she attended the Zurich University of the Arts, in Switzerland, specializing in photography. Her first successful sequence 'Goftare Nik/Good Words of color photographs' taken in Iran led to the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize in 2002. As discussed by Adam Jasper's review in Artforum, Shahbazi's photographs are true abstractions in that they are less a representational photograph than they are actual objects themselves, highly constructed. Continuing to work in analog photographic methods, some of Shabazi's newest works exist as geometric shapes captured on polished mirrors with thin films of color. Shirana SHAHBAZI currently lives and works in Zurich.
Photo books by as well as with works by Shirana SHAHBAZI
- 'Goftare Nik/Good Words of color photographs' (2001); 'Risk is our Business' (2003); 'Accept the Expected' (2005); 'MIR' (2006); 'Meanwhile' (2007); 'Monstera' (2014); 'Tehran North' (2016); 'First things first' (2017); 'New Good Luck' (2019); 'Augustblau' (2023);
Awards
- 2002: Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize
2019: Prix Meret Oppenheim
Exhibitions
- The work of Shirana SHAHBAZI has been exhibiting regularly since 1997.
2002: 'Shirana Shahbazi', Bonner Kunstverein; 'The Garden';
2003: 'The Annunciation', Venice Biennale;
2007: 'Meanwhile', Swiss Institute in New York City and at the Barbican Art Gallery, London;
2012: 'Then Again', Fotomuseum Winterthur;
2014: 'Monstera', Kunsthalle Bern;
2018: 'Shirana Shahbazi', Kunsthaus Hamburg;