Shahroud Ghahani
Artist Bio
Shahroud Ghahani is an Iranian-Australian visual artist based on Gadigal land. Her artworks bridge together rich images from disparate cultures and her experiences of them.
She holds a Master of Art from the University of New South Wales and has had her work exhibited in galleries across Sydney.
Her practice explores representations of the female body and themes of beauty, the grotesque, and identity within Eastern and Western traditions.
Her art is also inspired by explorations of metaphysical subjects. She interweaves dreamscapes, liminal and imaginary spaces, displaced objects and allegorical imagery.
She was a finalist for the 2022 Fisher's Ghost Art Prize, 2022 CUT.N.POLISH, 2023 and 2022 Arts in the Valley Art Prize, 2021 Hawkesbury Art Prize, and a finalist for the 2018 and 2019 Kudos Emerging Artist Award as well as Corner Store Gallery in Orange. She is currently a resident artist at the Primrose Park Art Studio a program managed by North Sydney Council.
Upcoming shows
Shahroud's work will be on display at Chrissie Cotter Gallery from Thursday 29 June – Sunday 16 July 2023, Pidcock Street, Camperdown.
The work is part of a group show, "A different kind of place" , featuring Avenonima, Lucy Merrett, Shahroud Ghahani, Tamara Pavlovic, Zorica Purlija.
Opening: 1 July, 2 - 4pm.
A Different Kind Of Place, draws upon female experiences of pressures of biculturalism revealed as states of being and moving through the world. The themes of layered identity, intimacy, personal history, memory and contested power structures are viewed through a self-reflexive female gaze.
Avenonima, Lucy Merrett, Shahroud Ghahani, Tamara Pavlovic and Zorica Purlija consider the influence of structures of power on individual female emplacement and resilience as seen through divergent perspectives on nurturance, connectedness, the environment, the everyday and future shaping.
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