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Soheila Sokhanvari
Soheila Sokhanvari (Persian: سهیلا سخنوری; born 1964)[1] is an Iranian-born British multidisciplinary visual artist.[2][3][4] She is known for her drawings and egg-tempera paintings, often featuring her memories, or based on family photographs.[5] Sokhanvari now lives in Cambridge, where she is an associate artist at the Wysing Arts Centre, a contemporary arts residency centre.[1] BiographySoheila Sokhanvari was born in 1964 in Shiraz, Pahlavi Iran.[1] She left Iran in 1978 at the age of 14 before the Iranian Revolution, to study in the United Kingdom.[2] After she moved away from her family and her homeland, she found greater importance in her family photos.[6] She is a dual national with citizenship in Iran and in the UK.[7] She graduated with a degree (1986) in biochemistry from University of Cambridge.[8] Sokhanvari also has a degree (2005) in fine art and art history from Anglia Ruskin University in East Anglia, United Kingdom;[8] a postgraduate diploma from Chelsea College of Art and Design (now Chelsea College of Arts) in London; and she has a MFA degree from Goldsmiths' College.[1] Sokhanvari's early work featured crude oil, and eventually expanded to sepia drawings of family and pre-Iranian Revolution.[6] Her more recent artwork is made with brightly colored egg tempera on vellum (calf skin) and she uses a squirrel hair brush (which are reminiscent of the materials used in Persian miniatures).[6] She uses old family photographs as subjects for her paintings, and she heavily utilizes patterns.[6] She has also painted the feminist entertainers and icons of Iran as a subject.[6][9][10][11] Sokhanvari's solo exhibitions include "Rebel Rebel" (2022–2023) at Curve Gallery, Barbican Centre in London;[3][12][13] and "We Could Be Heroes..." (2023–2024) at Heong Gallery in Downing College, Cambridge.[6] Her artwork can be found in museum collections including at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[14] and National Gallery of Victoria.[15] See alsoReferences
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