Baltimore, MD b. Iran
“A constant element of my work has been the significance of process, repetition and time. In works comprised of paper scrolls and drawings, individual strips of paper have been marked with hand-written and printed Farsi word for love, or “eshghe”. Each strip [within the scroll work] is tightly rolled to create a core, around which successive strips are added. During the repetitive process of adding paper strips to create individual rolls, text and symbols are sometimes revealed and often hidden within the concentric rings of the finished object.
My series of photographs documents my recent explorations of the relationship between text, the body and ornamentation”
**Listed on The Top Ten Artists To Watch (Huffington Post, April 2011)**
Education
MFA, Imaging and Digital Art, UMBC, MD
MFA, Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
BA, Painting, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Selected Exhibitions
Jameel Award 2011 Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK, 2011
The Sweet Turning of the Page, Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC, 2011
Ketap, XVA Gallery, Dubai, UAE, 2011
Ritual: Form, Script and Gesture, Morton Fine Art's *a pop-up project, Washington DC, 2010
More of the best is yet to come, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2010
Crazy Beautiful II, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY, 2010
Sondheim Prize, Semi-Finalist Exhibition, MICA, Baltimore, MD, 2010
MICA Sondheim Prize and Baker Award Honorees, Casewerks Baltimore, MD, 2010
(RAN) Home (In America), CoCA, Seattle, WA, 2010
Gallery Artists Group Show, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2010
Some Kind of Love, Jean Efron Art Consultants, Washington D.C, 2010
Paper Pattern Color Culture, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2009
Exodus, The Carriage House, Baltimore, MD, 2008
Selected Grants and Awards
Shortlist for Victoria & Albert Museum's Jameel Award 2011
Individual Artist Grant, Maryland State Arts Council, 2010
Mary Sawyers Baker Award, William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund, 2009
Finalist, Emerging Fields, Innovative Literature, and Performing Arts, Creative Capital Grant, NY, 2008
Individual Artist Grant, Maryland State Arts Council, 2008
Please contact MFA for a full Biography and Artist Statement for Hadieh Shafie