Hadieh Shafie (born 1969) is an Iranian-American visual artist based in

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Biography

She was born in

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, Iran, and migrated to the

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in 1983. She has a BA in Painting from

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(1993), an MFA in painting from the

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(1999) and an MFA in Imaging and Digital Art from the

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(2004). Many of her works comprise tightly coiled strips of brightly coloured paper, bearing calligraphy, arranged in patterns: she has described them as "part sculpture, part drawing, part artist’s book". Her works are held, among others, by the

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, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

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and the United States State Department. Shafie held a solo exhibition, "Surfaced", in New York's Leila Heller Gallery in March and April 2015.

References

External links

Hadieh Shafie's official website
1969 births Living people 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American women artists 20th-century Iranian women artists 21st-century Iranian women artists American people of Iranian descent Artists from Tehran Pratt Institute alumni University of Maryland, Baltimore County alumni University of Maryland, College Park alumni American artists of Iranian descent {{US-artist-stub