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Sharina Shahbazi was born in 1974 in Tehran. She studied photography at the Fachhochschule Dortmund in Germany and Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zurich. Shahbazi lives and works in Zurich. She makes photographs in classical art-historical genres, such as portraiture, still life, and landscape, and repeatedly translates her images in different mediums including hand-knotted carpets, and photorealistic billboards painted by artisans from Iran. Shahbazi also produces architectural scale pieces, creating installations of different images hung on wallpaper.
Installation view of “Shirana Shahbazi: Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear,” 2018, at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany.
Shirana Shahbazi's solo exhibitions include, and are not limited to the following:
- KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, at Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich (2017)
- Kunsthalle Bern (2014)
- Fotomuseum Winterthur, New Museum, New York (2011)
- Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2009)
- Swiss Institute, New York (2007)
- Sprengel Museum, Hannover (2006)
- Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2005).
Shirana Shahbazi’s works have been represented in a variety of public collections:
- Tate Modern, London
- Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
- Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
- Fotomuseum Winterthur
- Museum of Modern Art, New York City
- First Things First Anthony DePasquale - 2017
- Monstera - 2015
- Meanwhile - 2007
- Shahrzad - 2005
- Risk is Our Business - 2004
- Then Again - 2002
