Hoda Afshar (IR/AU)

Image: Hoda Afshar, from the series Speak the Wind (2015-2020). Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
Born 1982, Tehran, Iran
Lives and works Melbourne, Australia
Born in Tehran, Iran, visual artist and lecturer in photography and fine art Hoda Afshar lives and works in Melbourne. Exploring the possibilities of documentary image-making and representations of gender, marginality and displacement, Afshar pairs photography with the moving-image.
Exhibiting and publishing her work locally and internationally, Afshar’s work is also included in many private and public collections. Her exhibitions include Remain, UQ Museum of Art in Brisbane, Beyond Place, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego CA, USA , Primavera 2018, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and Waqt al tagheer: Time of Change, ACE Open, Adelaide. In 2015, she received the National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, and in 2018 she won the Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Australia.
PHOTO 2022 Exhibitions
[Free, Exhibitions, Premiere]
Hoda Afshar (IR/AU)
Speak the Wind
2 April 2022 - 26 June 2022
Monash Gallery of Art
PHOTO 2022 Events
[Talks, Free, Events]
Talk: Hoda Afshar and Nikos Papastergiadis
3 May 2022, 5:30-7pm (AEST)
Monash Gallery of Art
[Talks, Free, Events]
Talk: One Vast Library Panel Discussion
19 May 2022, 3-4pm (AEST)
[PHOTO Live, Talks, Free, Events, Online]
Nature and Photography: Animism and Ecology
10 May 2022, 6-7pm (AEST)
ACMI
PHOTO 2021 Exhibitions
[Free, Exhibitions, Awards & Prizes, Indoor]
Bowness Photography Prize Celebrates 15 Years
19 February 2021 - 7 March 2021
Smith & Singer
[Free, Exhibitions, Indoor, Outdoor, Premiere]
Hoda Afshar (IR/AU)
Agonistes
19 February 2021 - 7 March 2021
St Paul's Cathedral (outdoor), Missing Persons
[Free, Exhibitions, Online]
The Burning World
Bendigo Art Gallery
PHOTO 2021 Events
[Talks, Free, Events, Online]
PHOTO IDEAS: Witness
2 March 2021, 5-6pm (AEST)