Hadieh Shafie

{{Short description|Iranian-American visual artist}}

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Hadieh Shafie (born 1969){{cite web|url=http://www.escapeintolife.com/painting/hadieh-shafie/|title=Hadieh Shafie: Artist Bio|website=Escape Into Life|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018072229/https://www.escapeintolife.com/painting/hadieh-shafie/|archive-date=18 October 2017|url-status=|accessdate=10 May 2016}} is an Iranian-American visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York.{{Cite web|url=http://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/news-events/exhibitions/hadieh-shafie--surfaced--drawings.html|title=Hadieh Shafie, Surfaced: Drawings|website=NYU Abu Dhabi|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018133542/https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/news-events/exhibitions/hadieh-shafie--surfaced--drawings.html|archive-date=18 October 2017|url-status=|access-date=2016-05-14}}

Biography

She was born in Tehran, Iran, and migrated to the United States in 1983. She has a BA in Painting from University of Maryland, College Park (1993), an MFA in painting from the Pratt Institute (1999) and an MFA in Imaging and Digital Art from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2004).{{cite web|url=http://www.hadiehshafie.com/cv|title=CV|publisher=Hadieh Shafie|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603034258/https://www.hadiehshafie.com/cv|archive-date=3 June 2016|url-status=|accessdate=10 May 2016}}

Many of her works comprise tightly coiled strips of brightly coloured paper, bearing calligraphy, arranged in patterns: she has described them as "part sculpture, part drawing, part artist’s book".{{cite web|url=http://www.1stdibs.com/introspective-magazine/hadieh-shafie-exhibition-leila-heller/|title=Hadieh Shafie Unspooled|last1=Kino|first1=Carol|date=30 March 2015|website=Introspective Magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229053856/https://www.1stdibs.com/introspective-magazine/hadieh-shafie-exhibition-leila-heller/|archive-date=29 December 2016|url-status=|accessdate=10 May 2016}}

Her works are held, among others, by the British Museum,{{cite web|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3596418&partId=1&searchText=hadieh+shafie&page=1|title=Grid 21|website=Collection online|publisher=British Museum|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725144335/https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3596418&partId=1&searchText=hadieh+shafie&page=1|archive-date=25 July 2019|url-status=|accessdate=10 May 2016}} Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/458035|title=Abi Abi|website=The Met: All collection records|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819062435/https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/458035|archive-date=19 August 2016|url-status=|accessdate=10 May 2016}} Victoria and Albert Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Sheldon Museum of Art and the United States State Department.{{cite web|url=https://art.state.gov/personnel/hadieh_shafie/|title=Hadieh Shafie|website=Art in Embassies|publisher=US Department of State|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190723193948/https://art.state.gov/personnel/hadieh_shafie/|archive-date=23 July 2019|url-status=|accessdate=10 May 2016}}

Shafie held a solo exhibition, "Surfaced", in New York's Leila Heller Gallery in March and April 2015.{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/comfort-food-for-the-soul-plus-art-as-pulp-fiction-1426283152|title=Comfort Food for the Soul and Drunk on Pulp Fiction: ... labor-intensive works by Hadieh Shafie|last1=Plagens|first1=Peter|date=13 March 2015|work=Wall Street Journal|accessdate=10 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603154809/https://www.wsj.com/articles/comfort-food-for-the-soul-plus-art-as-pulp-fiction-1426283152|archive-date=3 June 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2015/04/artseen/hadieh-shafie-surfaced|title=Artseen: Hadieh Shafie: Surfaced|last1=Brock|first1=Hovey|date=2 April 2015|website=The Brooklyn Rail|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604051005/https://brooklynrail.org/2015/04/artseen/hadieh-shafie-surfaced|archive-date=4 June 2016|url-status=|accessdate=10 May 2016}}

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