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Artists›Shirazeh Houshiary

Shirazeh Houshiary

1955

SculptureInstallation Art

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Shirazeh Houshiary makes sculpture, painting, and video that move between biomorphic form and near-invisible geometric pattern drawn from 13th-century Arabic poetry. Her monochromatic canvases and monumental anodized aluminum towers hold Islamic calligraphy, Sufi cosmology, and Western abstraction in sustained tension. She emerged in the early 1980s alongside British sculptors Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, and Anish Kapoor.

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String

2012 · Pencil, pigments, and acrylic on canvas and aluminum

Overall: H. 27 9/16 in. (70 cm) W. 27 9/16 in. (70 cm) Framed: H. 30 1/4 in. (76.8 cm) W. 30 1/4 in. (76.8 cm) D. 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Breath

2003 · Four-channel video (color, sound), four LCD monitors and surrounding sound

Breath I, 3:51 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (XI)

2003 · Pigment, colored ink, colored pencil, and synthetic polymer paint on paper

11 3/4 x 11 3/4" (29.8 x 29.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (I)

2003 · Pigment, colored ink, colored pencil, and synthetic polymer paint on paper

15 3/4 x 15 3/4" (40 x 40 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Untitled XII

2002 · Pigment, colored ink, colored pencil, and synthetic polymer paint on paper

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled XIII

2002 · Pigment, colored ink, colored pencil, and synthetic polymer paint on paper

11 3/4 x 11 3/4" (29.8 x 29.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Shroud

2000 · Acrylic paint and graphite on canvas

support: 1905 x 1903 x 35 mm

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2000 · Aquacryl with silverpoint and graphite on canvas

6' 3" x 6' 3" (190.5 x 190.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Wayne McGregor. Infinite Bodies, Exhibition, Somerset House, London 38

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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Chelsea College of Art and Design

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