Sheida Soleimani was born in 1990 in Indianapolis, IN and lives in Providence, RI. She received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from the University of Cincinnati. Her current and recent exhibitions include The Banner Project: Sheida Soleimani at MFA Boston, Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA), Ghostwriter at Edel Assanti Gallery (London, UK) and Providence College Galleries (Providence, RI), Eyes on Iran, a Four Freedoms and Vital Voices project at the Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island (New York, NY), A Trillion Sunsets at the International Center of Photography (New York, NY), Negotiators at Kunsthaus Photoforum Pasquart (Biel, Switzerland), Levers of Power at Silver Eye Centre for Photography (Pittsburgh, PA), and Medium of Exchange at Southern Utah Museum of Art (Cedar City, UT) and CUE Art Foundation (New York, NY). Soleimani is included in prestigious permanent collections including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA), Providence College Galleries (Providence, RI), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s List Visual Art Center (Cambridge, MA). Her work has been reviewed and featured in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Vogue, Artnet News, Boston Art Review, Hyperallergic, BOMB Magazine, ArtNews, The British Journal of Photography, Whitewall, and Art Asia Pacific. Sheida Soleimani is represented by Denny Gallery (New York), Edel Assanti (London, UK) and Harlan Levey Projects (Brussels, Belgium). |
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