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Shirazeh Houshiary (born Shiraz 15 January 1955) is an Iranian installation artist, painter and sculptor. She is a former Turner Prize nominee, and lives and works in London.

Career and Works
Shirazeh Houshiary attended university in Shiraz before leaving Iran in 1974 to live in London, UK. She gained a BA from the Chelsea School of Art, London (1976&#x2013;9) and was a Cardiff College of Art junior fellow (1979&#x2013;80).

Houshiary emerged within the New British Sculpture movement in the 1980s, alongside Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, and Anish Kapoor. Though her commitment to using a range of mediums in her artistic practice, including painting, sculpture, and film sets her apart from her New British Sculpture contemporaries. Broader influences on her work are wide-ranging, encompassing Sufism, Renaissance painting, contemporary physics and poetry.

She was a nominee for the 1994 Turner Prize. In 2008, the St Martin-in-the-Fields Church in London unveiled a commission by Shirazeh Houshiary and Pip Horne for the East Window. Houshiary's work is included in numerous public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and The Tate Collection, London. In 2005, Creative Time commissioned Houshiary and Pip Horne for their Creative Time Art on the Plaza series where the monumental Breath tower was exhibited in New York City. Her work was also included in Feri Daftari's exhibition Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking at the Museum of Modern Art in 2006 and the 17th Biennale of Sydney in 2010.

In 2005 (Veil) and 2008 (Shroud), Houshiary worked with animator Mark Hatchard of Hotbox Studios to create animations for gallery installations at the Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York and the Lisson Gallery in London.

Career and Works
A specific part of her art practice involves a certain amount of chance balanced with intention, and draws specifically on Marcel Duchamp's method of 3 Standard Stoppages.

Solo exhibitions

 * Shirazeh Houshiary, Lisson Gallery, London (1984)
 * Shirazeh Houshiary, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford & Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneve (1988)
 * Turning Around the Centre, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1992)
 * Shirazeh Houshiary, Camden Arts Centre, London (1993)
 * Isthmus: Shirazeh Houshiary, Grenoble: Magasin-Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble; London: the British Council (1995)
 * Shirazeh Houshiary, prints and drawings 1988-1992, Islamic Gallery, British Museum, London, UK (1997)
 * Museum SITE Santa Fe, NM, USA (2002)
 * Tate Liverpool, UK (2003)
 * The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2007)
 * Shirazeh Houshiary, The River is Within Us, Singapore Tyler Print Insitute, Singapore (2016)
 * Shirazeh Houshiary: Nothing is deeper than the skin, Lisson Gallery, New York (2017)
 * Shirazeh Houshiary: Nothing is deeper than the skin, Lisson Gallery, New York (2017)
 * Shirazeh Houshiary: Nothing is deeper than the skin, Lisson Gallery, New York (2017)

Group exhibitions (pre-1996)

 * New Art at the Tate Gallery, Tate Gallery, London (1983)
 * The Sculpture Show, Hayward and Serpentine Galleries, London (1983)
 * The British Art Show, Art Council Touring Exhibition (1984)
 * The British Show, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (1985)
 * Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1989)
 * In Site: New British Sculpture, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo (1993)
 * Recent British Sculpture, City Museum and Art Gallery, Derby (1993)
 * The Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London (1994)
 * Sculptors' Drawings Presented by the Weltkunst Foundation (1994)
 * Contemporary British Art in Print, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (1995)