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'''Shiva Ahmadi''' (born 1975) is an Iranian-American artist, who lives and works in California. |
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==Biography== |
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Ahmadi is Associate Professor of Art at the University of California, Davis, where she teaches Fine Arts. She was educated at Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Wayne State University and Azad University, Tehran, Iran. In 2016 she was awarded the ‘Anonymous Was A Woman’ Award and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. A new monograph of her work by Michelle Yun, Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Asia Society, New York, and Talinn Grigor, Professor of Art History, UC Davis, was published by Skira in Spring 2017. |
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Ahmadi was born in [[Tehran, Iran]] in 1975.<ref name="AsiaSocietyBio" /><ref name="Sheets" /> Her upbringing, which is reflected in her art, was marked by the [[Iranian Revolution]] and the [[Iran–Iraq War]].<ref name="Mallonee">{{cite web|last1=Mallonee|first1=Laura C.|title=Using Beauty to Examine Ugly Political Truths|url=http://hyperallergic.com/135353/nalini-malani-shiva-ahmadi-asia-society/|website=Hyperallergic|accessdate=10 March 2017|date=14 July 2014}}</ref> She obtained a bachelor of fine art from [[Azad University]] in 1998.<ref name="HellerBio">{{cite web|title=Shiva Ahmadi|url=http://www.leilahellergallery.com/artists/shiva-ahmadi|website=www.leilahellergallery.com|publisher=Leila Heller Gallery|accessdate=10 March 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref name="KresgeBio">{{cite web|title=Shiva Ahmadi|url=http://www.kresgeartsindetroit.org/portfolio-posts/shiva-ahmadi|website=Kresge Arts in Detroit|publisher=Kresge Arts in Detroit|accessdate=10 March 2017}}</ref> Ahmadi left Iran in 1999, relocating to [[Michigan]] to live with her older sister, Shadan Ahmadi. She completed a master of fine arts in drawing from [[Wayne State University]] in 2003.<ref name="Sheets">{{cite web|last1=Sheets|first1=Hilarie M.|title=Shiva Ahmadi’s Subversive Beauty|url=https://www.1stdibs.com/introspective-magazine/shiva-ahmadi/|publisher=Introspective Magazine|accessdate=10 March 2017|date=8 February 2016}}</ref> Two years later Ahmadi obtained her second masters degree, in painting, at the [[Cranbrook Academy of Art]].<ref name="KresgeBio" /> She attended Skowhegan Art Residency in 2003. Ahmadi was appointed as an Associate Professor of Art at the [[University of California, Davis]] in 2015.<ref name="DavisBio">{{cite web|title=Shiva Ahmadi|url=http://arts.ucdavis.edu/faculty-profile/shiva-ahmadi|website=arts.ucdavis.edu|publisher=UC Davis Arts|accessdate=10 March 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Sheets" /> |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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Shiva Ahmadi’s artistic practice embraces drawing and painting, particularly a rare expertise in watercolor, across 2D and 3D media and moving images. Her work explores contemporary conundrums between the historically refined aesthetics and cultural conceits of the Middle East with the violence, corruption and uncertainties wrought not only upon local societies but the whole world by malicious, global potentates. She works with vibrant figures transposed from Iranian and Indian book-painting, as well as pleasing patterns, to create sometimes sly and often manifest themes of brutishness and mindless self-regard within abstracted land and cityscapes. Ahmadi’s consistent explorations emanate from the loneliness of a terrified child during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) and the gallantry of a mature artist who wishes to bear witness to the global costs of greed resulting from ceaseless competition for power and control. The wry themes of her early work, however, have given way to an urgency reflecting the current state of accelerated calamity brought by new wars, genocide, and displacements of entire cities of people seeking basic shelter, safety and stability. |
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Ahmadi's career has been defined by her belief that one cannot be Iranian without being political.<ref name="Sheets" /> Her work examines the corruption and abuse of power that characterizes the intersection between the East and the West.<ref name="HellerBio" /> Incorporating Islamic architecture and cultural symbols Ahmadi has taken a critical look at the social and political issues that characterize the relationship including capitalism and the dependence of the West on oil from the Middle East.<ref name="Villarreal">{{cite web|last1=Villarreal|first1=Ignacio|title=New Paintings and Oil Barrels by Shiva Ahmadi at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller|url=http://artdaily.com/news/35982/New-Paintings-and-Oil-Barrels-by-Shiva-Ahmadi-at-Leila-Taghinia-Milani-Heller#.WMH3On8502x|website=artdaily.com|accessdate=10 March 2017|language=en|date=2010}}</ref> Intricate in nature her work often mirrors the visually rich and patterned design of Persian miniatures, with embedded details, sometimes regarding war, corruption or religion, becoming apparent only upon closer inspection.<ref name="Sheets" /><ref name="AsiaSocietyBio">{{cite web|title=Shiva Ahmadi: In Focus|url=http://asiasociety.org/new-york/exhibitions/shiva-ahmadi-focus|website=Asia Society|accessdate=10 March 2017|language=en|date=2014}}</ref><ref name="Villarreal" /> Known for her achievements in painting, including three-dimensional objects such as oil drums, her later career has been marked by the use of video-animation and, since her move to California, ceramics.<ref name="Sheets" /><ref name="HellerBio" /> |
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Ahmadi's work is held internationally in collections such as the [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles|Museum of Contemporary Art]] in Los Angeles, [[the Detroit Institute of Arts]], the TDIC Corporate Collection in the United Arab Emirates, and the Farjam Collection in Dubai.<ref name="DavisBio" /><ref name="HellerBio" /> Her piece ''Pipes'' was acquired by the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in 2014.<ref name="Rooney">{{cite web|last1=Rooney|first1=Julia|title=A Closer Look: Shiva Ahmadi's Pipes|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/ruminations/2016/closer-look-shiva-ahmadi-pipes|website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum|publisher=The Met|accessdate=10 March 2017}}</ref> |
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==Exhibitions== |
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Her work is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Library, Asia Society Museum, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, the Farjam Collection, Dubai, and the TDIC Corporate Collection, Abu Dhabi. Solo exhibitions have been presented at the Leila Heller Gallery, New York and Dubai (2005-2017), Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2017), Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University, New York (2014, 2016), Asia Society Museum, New York (2014) and the College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio (2012). Recent group shows include Home Land Security, For-Site Foundation, San Francisco, Fireflies in the Night Take Wing, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Athens, Greece, and Global/Local 1960-2015: Six Artists from Iran, Grey Art Gallery, New York University (all 2016). |
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*2017-"Ascend", Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY |
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*2017 - ''Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians'' - [[Aga Khan Museum]], Toronto, Ontario<ref name="RebelExhibit">{{cite web|title=Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians|url=https://www.agakhanmuseum.org/contemporary-persians|website=Aga Khan Museum|accessdate=10 March 2017|language=en|date=1 November 2016}}</ref><ref name="Gairola">{{cite web|last1=Gairola|first1=Vibhu|title=A look at the splendid, politically charged pieces at the Aga Khan Museum's massive new Iranian art exhibition|url=http://torontolife.com/culture/art/aga-khan-contemporary-persians-rebel-jester-mystic-poet-gallery/|website=Toronto Life|accessdate=10 March 2017|date=10 February 2017}}</ref> |
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*2016 - ''Global/Local 1960–2015: Six Artists from Iran'' - [[Grey Art Gallery]], New York, City<ref name="GreyGallery">{{cite web|title=Global/Local 1960–2015: Six Artists from Iran - Grey Gallery|url=https://greyartgallery.nyu.edu/exhibition/globallocal-1960/|website=Grey Gallery|accessdate=10 March 2017|date=2016}}</ref> |
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*2016- "Homeland Security, For-site foundation, San Francisco |
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*2016- "Spheres of Suspension", Charles B. Wang Center, New York, NY |
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*2014 - ''Shiva Ahmadi: In Focus'' - [[Asia Society]], New York City<ref name="Rooney" /><ref name="AsiaSocietyBio" /> |
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*2013 - ''Apocalyptic Playland'' - Leila Heller Gallery, New York City |
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*2010 - ''Shiva Ahmadi: Reinventing the Poetics of Myth'' - Leila Heller Gallery, New York City<ref name="Villarreal" /> |
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==Awards== |
==Awards== |
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*2016 - [[Anonymous Was A Woman Award]]<ref name="AWAA">{{cite web|title=2016 Award Winners|url=http://www.anonymouswasawoman.org/2016-award-winners.html|publisher=Anonymous Was A Woman Award|accessdate=10 March 2017}}</ref><ref name="CAA">{{cite web|title=Shiva Ahmadi and Sonya Clark Named a 2016 Recipient of the "Anonymous Was A Woman" Award|url=http://cranbrookart.edu/2016/10/shiva-ahmadi-named-2016-recipient-anonymous-woman-award/|website=Cranbrook Academy of Art|accessdate=10 March 2017|date=10 October 2016}}</ref> |
*2016 - [[Anonymous Was A Woman Award]]<ref name="AWAA">{{cite web|title=2016 Award Winners|url=http://www.anonymouswasawoman.org/2016-award-winners.html|publisher=Anonymous Was A Woman Award|accessdate=10 March 2017}}</ref><ref name="CAA">{{cite web|title=Shiva Ahmadi and Sonya Clark Named a 2016 Recipient of the "Anonymous Was A Woman" Award|url=http://cranbrookart.edu/2016/10/shiva-ahmadi-named-2016-recipient-anonymous-woman-award/|website=Cranbrook Academy of Art|accessdate=10 March 2017|date=10 October 2016}}</ref> |
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*2016- Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant |
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*2009- Kresge Artist Fellowship, Kresge Foundation |
*2009- Kresge Artist Fellowship, Kresge Foundation |
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Shiva Ahmadi (born 1975) is an Iranian-American artist, who lives and works in California.
Biography
Ahmadi is Associate Professor of Art at the University of California, Davis, where she teaches Fine Arts. She was educated at Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Wayne State University and Azad University, Tehran, Iran. In 2016 she was awarded the ‘Anonymous Was A Woman’ Award and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. A new monograph of her work by Michelle Yun, Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Asia Society, New York, and Talinn Grigor, Professor of Art History, UC Davis, was published by Skira in Spring 2017.
Career
Shiva Ahmadi’s artistic practice embraces drawing and painting, particularly a rare expertise in watercolor, across 2D and 3D media and moving images. Her work explores contemporary conundrums between the historically refined aesthetics and cultural conceits of the Middle East with the violence, corruption and uncertainties wrought not only upon local societies but the whole world by malicious, global potentates. She works with vibrant figures transposed from Iranian and Indian book-painting, as well as pleasing patterns, to create sometimes sly and often manifest themes of brutishness and mindless self-regard within abstracted land and cityscapes. Ahmadi’s consistent explorations emanate from the loneliness of a terrified child during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) and the gallantry of a mature artist who wishes to bear witness to the global costs of greed resulting from ceaseless competition for power and control. The wry themes of her early work, however, have given way to an urgency reflecting the current state of accelerated calamity brought by new wars, genocide, and displacements of entire cities of people seeking basic shelter, safety and stability.
Museum Collection and Exhibitions
Her work is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Library, Asia Society Museum, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, the Farjam Collection, Dubai, and the TDIC Corporate Collection, Abu Dhabi. Solo exhibitions have been presented at the Leila Heller Gallery, New York and Dubai (2005-2017), Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2017), Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University, New York (2014, 2016), Asia Society Museum, New York (2014) and the College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio (2012). Recent group shows include Home Land Security, For-Site Foundation, San Francisco, Fireflies in the Night Take Wing, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Athens, Greece, and Global/Local 1960-2015: Six Artists from Iran, Grey Art Gallery, New York University (all 2016).
Awards
- 2016 - Anonymous Was A Woman Award[1][2]
- 2016- Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
- 2009- Kresge Artist Fellowship, Kresge Foundation
References
- ^ "2016 Award Winners". Anonymous Was A Woman Award. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ "Shiva Ahmadi and Sonya Clark Named a 2016 Recipient of the "Anonymous Was A Woman" Award". Cranbrook Academy of Art. 10 October 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2017.