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
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, NY
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:
2018: Assistant league of Houston celeberates Texas art
2018: Re imagining the four for freedom, travelling exhibit
2018: NDF Gala for the art, Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles
2017: Assistnce league of Houston celeberates 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
2009: Baku Biennale, December 15, Baku Azerbaijan
Emancipated, Haggerty gallery Dallas, TX
2008: We The People… , Art league Houston, TX
Mechanical Perception, presented by FotoFest, Houston, TX.
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, TX.
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, 11/04m
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], Volume3
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