Hoda Afshar (IR/AU)
![Image: Hoda Afshar, from the series [Speak the Wind] (2015-2020). Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2_Hoda-Afshar-from-the-series-Speak-the-Wind-2015-2020.-Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Milani-Gallery-Brisbane-161x200.jpg "2_Hoda Afshar, from the series Speak the Wind (2015-2020). Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane")
Image: Hoda Afshar, from the series Speak the Wind (2015-2020). Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
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.
![Image: Hoda Afshar, from the series [Speak the Wind] (2015-2020). Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/4_Hoda-Afshar-from-the-series-Speak-the-Wind-2015-2020.-Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Milani-Gallery-Brisbane-200x160.jpg "4_Hoda Afshar, from the series Speak the Wind (2015-2020). Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane")
![unnamed Victorian State Rivers and Water Supply Commission photographer, [Dust storm, Red Cliffs, in the summer of 1938-39]. Courtesy State Library Victoria.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/FL15645435-200x152.jpeg "FL15645435")
![Image: Hoda Afshar, from the series [Speak the Wind], 2015–20. Courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/410879-160x200.jpeg "Hoda Afshar Speak the Wind")
![Max Pinckers, from the series [Margins of Excess], 2018](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Max-Pinckers-Margins-of-Excess_129-200x164.jpg "Max-Pinckers---Margins-of-Excess_129")
![Image: Jacky Redgate, [Light throw (mirrors) #4], 2011 from the series [Light throw (mirrors)], 2010–11, Monash
Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Redgate-Light-Throw-Mirrors4-2010_2011-1-200x160.jpg)
![Image: Hoda Afshar, [Agonistes (still)] 2020, 1-channel digital video, colour, sound. Courtesy and © the artist and
Milani Gallery, Brisbane.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Agonisties-Stills-020-200x112.jpg)
![Image: Hoda Afshar, [Remain] (still), 2018, 2-channel digital video, colour, sound. Courtesy and © the artist and
Milani Gallery.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Hoda-Afshar-Remain-Still-020-200x113.jpg)