Sheida Soleimani wins the MAST Photography Grant on Industry and Work 2025
29 January 2025 • Mark Westall
The winner of the 8th edition of the MAST Photography Grant on Industry and Work 2025 is Sheida Soleimani
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The SLG to open: Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest
28 December 2023 • Mark Westall
In spring 2024, an exhibition looking at contemporary responses to photography’s long-standing association with feminist resistance will go on show… Read More
Eyes On Iran – Art activation faces The U.N. in New York City
29 November 2022 • Mark Westall
Iranian artists Sheida Soleimani, Aphrodite Désirée Navab, Z, Icy and Sot, Shirin Neshat, Mahvash Mostala, Sepideh Mehraban, and Shirin Towfiq, alongside artists Hank Willis Thomas and JR, activate New York’s FDR Four Freedoms State Park with a provocative multi-day and multi-media art installation facing the United Nations entitled Eyes on Iran, November 28th, 2022 – January 1st, 2023.
10 Artists to see at Armory 2020
4 March 2020 • Mark Westall
The Armory Show returns to Manhattan’s Piers 90 and 94 tomorrow Thursday 5th March, featuring 183 galleries from 32 countries and with 33 first-time exhibitors.
Sheida Soleimani – Medium of Exchange
8 January 2020 • Mark Westall
In this oftentimes humorous and all too relevant project, Soleimani examines power, exploitation, and oil in works that feature queer models wearing masks of Western leaders and ministers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
11 Artists we love at Photo London 2019
16 May 2019 • Mark Westall
Photo London opened last night and we had a quick look around below are ten artists/photographers you should search and when you are finding them you’ll probably find other cool stuff as well