Shirazeh Houshiary & Pip Horne, Breath
May 4, 2004 - April 3, 2005

Shirazeh Houshiary was born in Iran in 1955. Having moved to London in the early 1970s, Houshiary graduated from the Chelsea School of Art in 1979, emerging with a group of artists that included Anish Kapoor and Richard Deacon. In Europe she is well known for her sculptures, which seek to investigate spiritual principles and abstract forms. Her labor-intensive paintings unite the word and the canvas into a meditative visual experience. Houshiary has had solo exhibitions at the Musée Rath in Geneva; the Museum of Modern Art Oxford; the Camden Arts Centre, London; the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; and the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, among others. In 1994 Houshiary was nominated for the Turner Prize. Houshiary is married to architect and collaborator Pip Horne. She currently lives and works in London and is represented by Lehmann Maupin, New York.