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Born in Tehran, Shahbazi studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund, Germany (1995–1997), before attending the Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland (1997–2000).
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Shirana Shahbazi
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Her work includes installations and large conceptualized images of everyday life. In 2002, she presented a series of images of Switzerland titled The Garden. At the Venice Biennale in 2003, she presented The Annunciation, an enormous installation with murals by Iranian painters based on her photographs and a ceiling of lilies.
Shahbazi"s work has been widely exhibited with a number of recent solo exhibitions:
2014: Monstera, Kunsthalle Bern
2012: Rudolfinum, Prague
2012: Groupshow New Photography 2012 Museum of Modern Art, New York
2011: Much like Zero, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2008: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2008: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2007: Swiss Institute, New York
2007: Barbican Art Centre, London
2006: Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
2005: Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
2003: Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
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