Shaghayegh Cyrous (Persian: شقایق سیروس; is an American artist and curator based in Los Angeles. Her interactive time-based investigations, participatory projects, and video installations have been said to "create a poetic space for human connections."[1]
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شقایق سیروس | |
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| Education | California College of Arts |
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Early life
editCyrous was born in Tehran, Iran.[2] She obtained her BA degree in Visual Art Studies from the University of Science and Culture in Tehran.[3] She lived in Iran until the Iranian Green Movement, when political tensions made her decide to move to the United States in 2011. She settled in San Francisco, where she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts Social Practice from the California College of Arts (CCA) in 2017.[4][1] Immediately upon graduation, Cyrous became a fellow at Escuela de Arte Útil, a project initiated by Tania Bruguera.[5]
Career
editTogether with the Iranian artist Keyvan Shovir, she put up the mural In Memory Of in Clarion Alley in 2015. The mural depicts three famous Iranian women writers - Simin Daneshvar, Simin Behbahani, and Forough Farrokhzad. Cyrous and Shovir had already created another work there, portraying writers and artists imprisoned in Iran, and Cyrous installed her Lost Rug Project in Clarion Alley.[4][6] Cyrous co-curated Inside Out Iran, an exhibition of Iranian urban art in London in 2015.[7][8] She was the executive producer of Mutiny of Colours, a feature-length documentary film about street art and graffiti in Iran.[9] She curated the video exhibition Eleven and a Half Hours in Oakland in 2017, displaying the works of the Iranian artist Shirin Abedinirad and the American artist Dionne Lee. Cyrous combined the two with the intention of "blurring lines between the two cultures... making Iran and Oakland feel like the same place."[10] She chose that title because eleven and a half hours is the time difference between San Francisco and Tehran. Her own work A Window to Tehran, with a video diptych synchronizing the San Francisco sunrise with the Tehran sunset, was based on the same idea.[1][11] In 2019, Cyrous created The sun will rise the next day, a video installation with the names of political prisoners incarcerated in Iran since the beginning of the Iranian Green Movement in 2011 and until 2019.[12]
In August 2021, Cyrous founded Zamin Project, which aims to connect and represent artists and educators from the SWANA (South West Asian and North African) Community in the San Francisco Bay Area. The project includes initiatives such as discussion panels, artists' interviews and Zamin Project Archive.[13]
Notable works
edit- 2014 - Klozar Weaving, Iran and California[14]
- 2015 - In Memory Of (collaboration with Keyvan Shovir), Clarion Alley, San Francisco, California
- 2015 - Inside Out Iran (exhibition curator), London, UK
- 2016 - A Window to Tehran, Root Division’s galleries, San Francisco, California[15]
- 2017 - Eleven and a Half Hours (exhibition curator), Oakland, California
- 2018 - Over Here Not Yet (collaborative work with Renée Rhodes) Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, California[16]
- 2018 - East of West, Santa Fe, New Mexico[17]
- 2019 - Rock E Malta (collaborative work with Kim Epifano)[18]
- 2019 - The sun will rise the next day, (video installation at Minnesota Street Project), San Francisco, California[12]
- 2019 - “Rock & Mortar” (video installation for the Epiphany Dance Theater's performance), San Francisco, California[19][20]
- 2020 - Reenacting the Future, SF Bay Area, California[21]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Shaghayegh Cyrous with Kathryn Barulich and Christopher Squier". Dissolve. 28 September 2017. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
- ^ "Empowering Iranian-American Artists and Art". Aftab Committee. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ^ نمايشگاه نقاشيهاي "شقايق سيروس" در گالري "ايست" (in Persian). ISNA. 11 September 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Know Your Street Art: In Memory Of". SF Weekly. 12 October 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
- ^ "Escuela de Arte Útil: A Proto-Institution Implementing Performance as Usefulness". Art & Education. 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
- ^ "Murals: Shaghayegh Cyrous". Clarion Alley Mural Project. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
- ^ "Inside Out Iran – Urban Art Exhibition". Arts Canteen. 4 September 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
- ^ از دیوارهای تهران تا دیوارهای لندن. BBC Persia. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
- ^ "Don't Get Caught As A Graffiti Artist In Iran". Aquila Style. 22 July 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
- ^ "Making Iran and Oakland Feel Like the Same Place". KQED. 14 September 2017. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
- ^ "Guest Blogger: Kathryn Barulich on 4 Artists who are Reimagining Architecture at MFA Now 2017". Root Division Talk. 10 March 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
- ^ a b Kirkland, Kelly (2019-05-01). "Once at Present: Contemporary Art of Bay Area Iranian Diaspora at Minnesota Street Project". Art Practical.
- ^ Abinader, Elmaz (2021-08-26). "Southwest Asian and North African Artists and Their Barrier to Access". HyperAllergic.
- ^ "Archives: Klozar Weaving". Arte Util.
- ^ "Kathryn Barulich on 4 Artists who are Reimagining Architecture at MFA Now 2017". Root Division's galleries. 10 March 2017.
- ^ Santos, Doroth (2018-04-10). "Over Here Not Yet at Royal NoneSuch Gallery".
- ^ Vartanian, Lizzy (2018-04-05). "Middle East Meets America With East Of West Gallery". Harper Bazaar Arabia.
- ^ WIEDERHOLT, EMMALY (2019-01-31). "The Shaping of a Piece". Stance on Dance.
- ^ "Rock & Mortar". Z Space.
- ^ Katz, Leslie (2019-12-06). "'Rock & Mortar' takes audiences on a journey through memory". San Francisco Examiner.
- ^ Oh, Janet (2020-06-21). "Virtual Ether: Interview with Artist Shaghayegh Cyrous". Medium.
External links
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Media related to Shaghayegh Cyrous at Wikimedia Commons