Nationality Iranian | Alma mater University of Paris | |
Born 1973 (age 43–44) Tehran, Iran | ||
Shirin Aliabadi (born 1973) is an Iranian contemporary visual artist.
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Biography
Aliabadi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1973. She studied art history and archeology at the University of Paris.
Aliabadi is married to the artist Farhad Moshiri. She is represented by The Third Line gallery in Dubai.
Career
Her art, which includes photographs and drawings, explores the competing effects on young urban Iranian women of traditional values, religious restrictions and globalized western culture. Her work has appeared in solo exhibitions in Dubai, Tehran, London, Switzerland and Denmark and in group exhibitions at the Institut des cultures d'Islam in Paris, the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, at Frieze New York, at the Chelsea Art Museum, in Monaco, in Rio de Janeiro, in Copenhagen, in Italy, in Norway, in Estonia, in Germany, in Switzerland and in Spain.
Her work is held in the collections of Deutsche Bank AG in Germany, the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery and the Farjam Collection in Dubai.