Foroozan Shirghani

Foroozan Shirghani (b. 1981, Shirvan, Iran) is a multidisciplinary artist working mostly in drawing, painting, sculpture, sewing, video and installation art. Her work usually stems from her personal experiences and mainly focuses on psychological and socio-political issues, especially identity challenges in today’s individual and social life. The objects have a symbolic nature in her works and imply social behaviors. Her previous project entitled "Gaze" deals with the subject of glasses. Her portraits stare from behind multi-purpose glasses with a hesitant look elsewhere. These differing glasses, when overlapped, present a vision beyond vision.
Using compressed plastic bottles as inspiration, her current project entitled “Alienation”, explores ideas of fragmentation and alienation of human identity in the present day. An identity which gradually leads to the collapse of the body and alienation from itself and others.
As an immigrant artist, she addresses these life-altering situations formally with fragmentation, deformation and eventually destruction of her subjects. The bodies she creates exist in an apocalyptic world where time, place and even the very appearance of humanity does not exist.

Education:

2016 Fashion Design Diploma, WVOC, Los Angeles, USA
2008 Master of Fine Arts in Painting, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Membership:
Member of The Association of Iranian Painter in Iran Member of The Institute for Promotion of Visual Arts in Iran

Activities:
Teacher at Azad University 2008 – 2015, Tehran, Iran Teacher at Shariati University 2013 – 2015, Tehran, Iran

Curatorial Project:
2016 CLU gallery, Untitled: Without Border, Iranian Contemporary Artists Exhibition, Los Angeles, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2021 Gallery 825, Curated by Peter Frank, Los Angeles, USA 2019 Building Bridges Art Exchange Gallery, What If Not Exotic? Los Angeles, USA
2017 Mim Gallery, Art Show By MAP, Los Angeles, USA
2017 AMC Loews Metreon, Art Show By MAP, San Francisco, USA
2017 Otis College of Art and Design, Inauguration, Los Angeles, USA
2017 Lajevardi Foundation, Visages, Tehran, Iran
2016 Divan Gallery, Exhibition of Installation Collection, Tehran, Iran
2016 Y Gallery, Group Painting Exhibition, Tehran, Iran 2016 Otis College of Art and Design - Back Gallery Space, Green Circle, Los Angeles, USA
2016 CLU Gallery, Untitled: Without Border, Iranian Contemporary Artists Exhibition, Los Angeles, USA 2016 Azad Ar...