Art Across Boundaries Lecture, Sholeh Asgary

SHOLEH ASGARY (b. 1982, Iran) is an interdisciplinary artist who researches how the auditory characteristics of a location reveal its underlying conditions and our relationship to place-echoing the near-perpetual movement across borders that characterized Asgary’s formative years. Situating the body as a site of knowledge, the work takes form as visual, sound, and collective processes. The resulting artworks implicate the viewer in mythological excavations that bridge large swathes of time and history through water, water clocks, crude oil, movement, light, imaging, and voice. Featured in Art in America's 2022 "New Talent Issue," Asgary is a Bay Area Now 9 Triennial artist at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, a 2023 Artadia Finalist, and a Getty Pacific Standard Time (2024-25) exhibiting artist. Such institutions as Headlands Center for the Arts, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, The Lab, Kadist, and ARoS Kunstmuseum have supported her performance and interdisciplinary work. Asgary is a UCLA Art|Sci Collective member, serves on the Curatorial Council for Southern Exposure in San Francisco, and is a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and California College of the Arts.
Hybrid Event - Virtual & In-Person
May 3, 2023 | 5:30 pm PT