Soody Sharifi
5336 Institute lane
Houston, Texas, 77005
soodysharifi@gmail.com
A 2011 Jameel Prize nominee, Soody Sharifi has been exhibited nationally and internationally since 2004, including the Baku Biennial, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Portland, Farjam Collection, and Sharjah Museum of Art, united Arab Emirates.
Education:
2004: Master of Fine Arts in Studio Photography, University of Houston
1982: Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineering, University of Houston
Awards:
2011: Nominee Jameel Art Prize
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
Residences:
2010: Stiftung Kunstledorf Schoppingen, Germany
Engagements:
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:
2025: Scope Florida, Presented by Gallwry A.M.P.S.
2025: Other Skies Tell other Stories, Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna, CA
2025: Survey of Soody Sharifi work, Houston, Texas
2011: Of Serenade Miniature and Maxiature Moments, LTMH gallery, New York
2010: 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
2006: Proud and Sad / Wrong and Strong, Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas
2006: Moslem Teenagers, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2004: Moslem Teenagers, Dom Fotografie, Poprad, Slovakia
2004: Simply Girls, Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
2004: Veiled / Unveiled, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas
2002: Women of Cover, Hungry’s gallery, FotoFest, Houston, Texas
Collections:
Musem of Fine Art Houston, Portland Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Jameel Prize Collection.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2021: In Between Worlds, Chagall and Contemporary Artists Krona Museum, Netherlands
2011: Jameel Prize Exhibit, Victor & Albert Museum, London
2010: Baku Biennale, December 15, Baku Azerbaijan
2010: Emancipated, Haggerty Gallery Dallas, Texas
2008: We The People… , Art league Houston, Texas
2008: Mechanical Perception, presented by FotoFest, Houston, Texas
2008: Puberty, Haugar Art Museum, Tonsburg, Norway
2008: Continuity and Change: Islamic Tradition in Contemporary Art, Willliamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York
2007: Artadia at Diverseworks… reprised, Diversework, Houston
2007: Best of Texas Biennial, San Antonio, Texas
2007: Texas Biennial, Dougherty Art Center, Austin
2006: Perspectives 152: 4 Artists 4 Stories, Contemporary Musuem of Art Houston,
2006: 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
2005: REALITÄTEN II : Gesellschaftswerte, Fotogallerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
2005: Co-existance, Lawndale Art Center. Houston, Texas & Pingyao International Photography Exhibition, Pingayo, China
2005: Happy Nude Year, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas
2004: The 2004 National Graduate Seminar Fellows Exhibition, the LeRoy Neiman Gallery New York
2004: Sharpening The Point, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas
2003: Layered Evidence, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
2003: Houston Center of Photography Fellowship Exhibition, Houston, Texas
2003: Open Exhibition, Visual Art Alliance, Houston, Texas
2002: Northlight Southwest 2002, Northlight Gallery, ASU, Tucson, Arizona
2002: Membership Exhibition, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Texas
2002: Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
2001: Membership Exhibition, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Texas
2001: Graduate Student Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas
2000: Fresh Mix, Video Installation, Community Artist’s Collective, Houston, Texas
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
2007: “My Work” Houston Chronicle Zest, July2, 2006
2007: “Exposures: Beneat the Hijab” PDN’S 30, March 2006
2007: “Purkantuoksuinen Iran” Image, 03/2006, Finland
2007: “Direction” A Magazine #3, London, England
2005: “Iran-Her motherland, his first trip-supplied setting for mother-son exhibit” Austin American Statement, April 21
2005: “Livers” Liberacion[Paris], June 2005
2005: “Private Meetings,” Livraison, No. 1 Spring/Winter 2005, Stockholm, Sweden
2005: “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
2005: “Grand Angle” Ados d’Iran… comme d’ailleurs, Libéraction, Paris, 12/24
2005: 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
2004: Invited Panelist on Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Digital photography, American Society of Aesthetics 62nd annual meeting, October 27-30; Houston, Texas.
2004: “Iranian teenagers are no different, M Publication[Germany], Volume 3, Surprise Issue
2004: “Simply Girls: Teenagers in Iran, Tatonic Weekend press cover page, September 2-8
2004: “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