Soody Sharifi
5336 Institute lane
Houston, Texas, 77005
soodysharifi@gmail.com
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: Art Basil, Florida, Presented by Apama Gallery
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:
- Museum of Fine Arts Houston
- Portland Museum of Art
- Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
- Sharja art Musuem,
- 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,
2005: Tampere Art Museum, Tampee, Finland
2005: REALITÄTEN II : Gesellschaftswerte, Fotogallerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
2005: Co-existance, Lawndale Art Center. Houston, Texas
2005: Pingyao International Photography Exhibition, Pingayo, China
2005: Happy Nude Year, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas
2004: The 2004 national graduate Seminar Fellows exhibtion , 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