Shoja Azari
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شجاع آذری
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Azari in 2009
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| Born | (1957-09-18) 18 September 1957 (age 66)[citation needed]
Shiraz, Iran
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Shoja Azari (Persian: شجاع آذری) is an Iranian-born visual artist and filmmaker based in New York City.[1] He is known for his films and multimedia installations.
Azari was born in Shiraz, Iran.[2] Azari trained as a filmmaker in New York in the 1970s before returning to Iran during the Iranian Revolution in 1979.[3] He then permanently returned to the U.S. In 1997, he first met artist Shirin Neshat when she was assembling a team to create her first video, “Turbulent”.[4] Azari and Neshat became artistic and romantic partners.[4] He is divorced and has one son, Johnny B. Azari, a musician.[4]
Azari is known for films such as Women Without Men (2009), Windows (2006), and K (2002). These were based on three of Franz Kafka's short stories: "The Married Couple", "In the Penal Colony", and "A Fratricide", respectively.[citation needed] He co-directed with Neshat the film Land of Dreams (2021), which won the Golden Peacock Award at the 52nd International Film Festival of India.[5]
According to Carol Kino of The New York Times, Azari's "multimedia installations have been increasingly showcased in galleries and museums around the world."[4] His first solo exhibition in New York occurred in 2010 at the Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery.[4] His video installation work, Idyllic Life (2012), was part of the exhibition In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art (2018) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[6][1]
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