Soody Sharifi
5336 Institute lane
Houston, Texas, 77005
Education:
2002: Master of Fine Arts in Studio Photography, University of Houston
1982: Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineering, University of Houston
Awards:
2017: First prize winner, Assistance league of Houston 2017 exhibit
2012: Cultural Art Council of Houston individual artist grant recipient
2011: Final nominee Jameel Art Prize, London UK
2006: Grant recipient, Artadia The Fund for Art and Diologue, New York
2005: Cultural Art Council of Houston individual artist grant recipient
2004: National Graduate Seminar Nominee, Columbia University, New York, NY
2003: Photography Fellowship, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Texas
RESIDENCIES
2010: Stiftung Kunstledorf Schoppingen, Germany
Engagements
2022: Barker Langham Mentor, Master mentor visual art commission mentor program
2019: artist talk: Dallas museum of art
2013: Talk with Artist: San Antonio museum of art
2010: University of Houston Adjunct teaching professor
2009: Photo workshop and talk at Chinquapin School Houston, Texas
2007: Guest lecturer society of photographic education Miami Florida
Selected Individual Exhibitions:
2014: Fotofest 2014: soody Sharifi: The space within
2013: The Jameel prize exhibit: San Antonio museum of Art
* Art inspired by Islamic Tradition, Cantor Cantor art center, Stanford University
2012: Works by Soody Sharifi, Sharja Museum of Art
* Jameel prize art and culture. V&A museum, London
* The desert beyond the city belongs to me, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston
2011: Of Serenade Miniature and Maxiature Moments LTMH gallery, New York
2009: Assumption of others, Gallery F15, Oslo, Norway
2007: Garden of Persian Delight, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston
2006: Maxiature, Photographic Center Valokuvia Peri, Kuopio, Finland
2006: Teenagers and Maxiatures, Northern photographic Center, Helsinki, Finland
* Proud and Sad / Wrong and Strong, Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas
* Moslem Teenagers, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2004: Moslem Teenagers, Dom Fotografie, Poprad, Slovakia
* Simply Girls, Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
* Veiled / Unveiled, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas
2002: Women of Cover, Hungry’s gallery, FotoFest, Houston, Texas
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2021: In between worlds, Chagall and contemporary artists Krona Museum, Netherlands
2019: Keir Collection of Islamic Art, Dallas Museum of Art Uncrated
2018: Assistant league of Houston celebrates Texas art
2018: Re imagining the four for freedom, traveling exhibit
2018: NDF Gala for the art, Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles
2017: Assistnce league of Houston celebrates Texas Art
2016: Unbreakable Rope, Quilliam foundation, London UK
2016: Oriental Garden, Arab institute, Paris, France
2012: Ornament and Narrative: Women Artists of Eastern Diaspora, Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts
2012: Contemporary Miniature, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Zurick, Switzerland
2012: Cross-Currents:Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Pakistan; Colorado College
2012: Contemporary Middle Eastern Artists, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas
2009: Baku Biennale, December 15, Baku Azerbaijan
* Emancipated, Haggerty Gallery Dallas, Texas
2008: We The People… , Art league Houston, Texas
* Mechanical Perception, presented by FotoFest, Houston, Texas
* Puberty, Haugar Art Museum, Tonsburg, Norway
* Continuity and Change: Islamic Tradition in Contemporary Art, Willliamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York
2007: Artadia at Diverseworks…reprised,” Diversework, Houston
* Best of Texas Biennial, San Antonio, Texas
* Texas Biennial, Dougherty Art Center, Austin
2006: Perspectives 152: 4 Artists 4 Stories, Contemporary Musuem of Art Houston,
* Ground, the Cultural Arts Council of Houston Fellowship Series, Houston, Texas
2005: Spell of Childhood, Backlight05: The 7.Int. photography triennial,
* Tampere Art Museum, Tampee, Finland
* REALITÄTEN II : Gesellschaftswerte, Fotogallerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
* Co-existance, Lawndale Art Center. Houston, Texas
* Pingyao International Photography Exhibition, Pingayo, China
* Happy Nude Year, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas
2004: The 2004 national graduate Seminar Fellows exhibtion , the LeRoy Neiman Gallery New York
* Sharpening The Point, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas
2003: Layered Evidence, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
* Houston Center of Photography Fellowship Exhibition, Houston, Texas
* Open Exhibition, Visual Art Alliance, Houston, Texas
2002: Northlight Southwest 2002, Northlight Gallery, ASU, Tucson, Arizona
* Membership Exhibition, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Texas
* Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
2001: Membership Exhibition, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Texas
* Graduate Student Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas
2000: Fresh Mix, Video Installation, Community Artist’s Collective, Houston, Texas
Collections:
- Museum of Fine Arts Houston
- Portland museum of Art
- Sharja art Musuem,
- Jameel prize collection
Publications & Panel
2010: IANN: focus on growing up, Vol #5
2008: “Cover page,” European Photography Art magazine, No.82
2007: “Soody Sharifi,” European Photography, Art Magazine, No. 79/80
* “My Work” Houston Chronicle Zest, July2, 2006
2007: “Exposures: Beneat the Hijab” PDN’S 30, March 2006
* “Purkantuoksuinen Iran” Image, 03/2006, Finland
* “Direction” A Magazine #3, London, England
2005: “Iran-Her motherland, his first trip-supplied setting for mother-son exhibit” Austin American Statement, April 21
* “Livers” Liberacion[Paris], June 2005
* “Private Meetings,” Livraison, No. 1 Spring/Winter 2005, Stockholm, Sweden
* “Teinit on teineja,” Suomen Kuvalehti, 40/2005, Finland
2005: “ Islam’s Long War Within” Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Autumn 2005, Volume 33, Number 2. Boston
2005: “Soody Sharifi with Payam Sharifi: Proud and Sad, Wrong and Strong,” Glasstire: Texas visual art online, 04/05
* “Grand Angle” Ados d’Iran… comme d’ailleurs, Libéraction, Paris, 12/24
* Soody Sharifi’s Photography, SME Kultura, Bratislava, Slovakia. 4/11
2004: Cover page of Chronogram Arts. Culture. Spirit, Mid-Hudson Magazine of Events & Ideas, 11/04
* Invited Panelist on Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Digital photography, American Society of Aesthetics 62nd annual meeting, October 27-30; Houston, Texas.
* “Iranian teenagers are no different, M Publication[Germany], Volume 3, Surprise Issue
* “Simply Girls: Teenagers in Iran, Tatonic Weekend press cover page, September 2-8
* “Put on your Sunday best, or Friday best or whatever…”; Cross Magazine, (issue 1, winter), Milan, Italy
2003: “A Guide to Ecstacity”; Nigel Coates, Author, London: Booth-Clibborn, Publisher
2003: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun; Fluid Magazine, (issue 30, June), Poland