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Soudeh Davoud (born 1987 ) is a contemporary, feminist artist from Tehran, Iran who creates politically charged art. She received a bachelor’s degree in painting at the University of Science & Culture, Tehran, Iran, and a master’s degree in painting at the University of Azad Eslamic Tehran, Iran. She has received multiple prizes for her art and has had many exhibitions showing her artwork across Iran and Europe. She fights censorship in Iran through her artwork by showing feminist commentaries on the currently established government in Iran. Her artwork shows her frustration and defiance against the society and government of Iran, while engaging the viewer in her beautiful paintings.

Early Life
Soudeh Davoud was born and currently lives in Tehran, Iran. In 2011, she earned a bachelor’s degree in Painting at the University of Science & Culture in Tehran, Iran. After receiving her bachelor's in painting, she went to the University of Azad Eslamic in Tehran, Iran to earn her master's degree in painting. She received her master's degree in painting in 2015, being a part of 12 exhibitions from the start of her post-secondary education and the end of her education.

Style and Technique
Davoud’s art is photo realistic imagery with expressive drawing or painting techniques. Her subject are almost exclusively women, often adding in authoritative men. The men are clothed in British World War I uniforms and are depicted as larger than the women in her art. Davoud often uses paint, oil, watercolors, and others as her medium.

Political Activism
Soudeh Davoud has been vocal about her opinions on religion and politics in Iran.
 * "My works has always been about women- who were, or are, around me. Women who were or are fighters in patriarchal societies struggling courageously for their homeland, and their right to live."

She talks often about women's rights, especially when it is related to Islam. She has shown her frustration with the hijab and how it affects women.
 * "Sometimes Hijab (Islamic veil) is removed, and they are given the right to appear in the society, and later the right is taken back."

The British World War I soldiers in her paintings are from photographs from when they occupied Iran. Davoud uses them as a way to compare oppression then and now.
 * "I have referred the occurrences happening in my country to the history, so that it can be a reason to remember the heroines of my country; heroines who are constantly fighting for their right of living in the society."

Solo Exhibitions
Soudeh Davoud has had four solo exhibitions, all in Tehran, Iran


 * 2011: Reknown Gallery, Iran Artists House, Tehran, Iran
 * 2013: The Place We Come Out But We Never Get Use to It, Aun Gallery, Tehran, Iran
 * 2016: Always, Aun Gallery, Tehran, Iran
 * 2019: Vaghaye Ettefaghiye, Mah art gallery. Tehran. Iran

Group Exhibitions
She has had many group exhibitions, her most prominent being in New York City, London, Florence, and the EU (Brussels, Athens, Warsaw)


 * 2019: A Bridge Between You and Everything. An Exhibition of Iranian Women Artists. Curated by Shirin Neshat. The High Line Nine Gallery. NYC
 * 2019: Shahr International Film Festival. Pardis Mellat Gallery. Tehran Iran
 * 2018: Identity Crisis. 4th Va Lifestyle. Art & fashion Exhibition. Ava Art Level Gallery. Tehran Iran
 * 2018: On the line – search event. Suggested by Aydin Khankeshipoor. Vartan art gallery. Tehran Iran
 * 2018: Summer Exhibition. Mah art gallery. Tehran. Iran
 * 2018: Iran less forty, Palazzo Bastogi museum, Florence-Italy.
 * 2018: The Exhibition of 30 Iranian Artists, Asia House. london
 * 2018: Design as Like as Living, Selected by Amir Soghrati, Iran Artists House, Tehran, Iran
 * 2017: Surface Art Space Iranshahr Gallery, Tehran, Iran
 * 2017: Florescent, Surface Art Space, Iranshahr Gallery, Tehran, Iran
 * 2017: Florescent, Royal Address, Iranshahr Gallery, Tehran, Iran
 * 2016: Review on Moon Gallery Works, Moon Gallery, Tehran, Iran
 * 2016: Drawing, Moon Gallery, Tehran, Iran
 * 2016: Kiarostami, Sales Gallery, Tehran, Iran
 * 2016: One Milion 2, Sales Gallery, Tehran, Iran
 * 2014: A Selections of Aun Galley Works, Aun Gallery, Tehran, Iran
 * 2013: Ereaser, Damonfar Festival Chosen, Selected by Behnam Kamrani, Shirin Gallery, Tehran, Iran
 * 2013: Oxygen, Iran Artists House, Tehran, Iran
 * 2012: Hidden, 40 Iranian Artists, Exhibition in EU (Brussels, Athens, Warsaw)
 * 2012: Damounfar Festival Nation Campus, Tehran, Iran
 * 2012: Expire, Aun Gallery, Tehran, Iran
 * 2011: Contemporary Drawing Festival, Imam Ali Museum, Tehran, Iran
 * 2010: Damounfar Festival, Nation Campus, Tehran, Iran
 * 2010: Reaction, Experience Creativity, Mah Mehr Galley, Tehran, Iran
 * 2010: Young Art Festival, Saba Tehran Gallery, Iran

Her most notable exhibition is "A Bridge Between You and Everything. An Exhibition of Iranian Women Artists" by Shirin Neshat in 2019 at the High Line Nine Gallery in New York City.