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X-WR-CALNAME:Fall 2026 Photo Lecture Series | Sheida Soleimani
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DESCRIPTION:The MassArt Graduate Programs and Photography department are pl
 eased to welcome Sheida Soleimani as the final speaker of the Fall 2026 Ph
 otography Lecture Series. Please join us in the Tower Auditorium at 2:00pm
  on Tuesday\, December 1.\n\n \n\n \n\nSheida Soleimani (b. 1990) is an Ir
 anian-American artist\, educator\, and activist. The daughter of political
  refugees who escaped Iran in the early 1980s\, Soleimani makes work that 
 excavates the histories of violence linking Iran\, the United States\, and
  the Greater Middle East. In working across form and medium—especially p
 hotography\, sculpture\, collage\, and film—she often appropriates sourc
 e images from popular/digital media and resituates them within defamiliari
 zing tableaux. The composition depends on the question at hand. For exampl
 e\, how can one do justice to survivor testimony and to the survivors them
 selves (To Oblivion)? What are the connections between oil\, corruption\, 
 and human rights abuses among OPEC nations (Medium of Exchange)? How do na
 tions work out reparations deals that often turn the ethics of historical 
 injustice into playing fields for their own economic interests (Reparation
 s Packages)? How may the layering of memory and familial history both repo
 rt fact\, and produce a reckoning with the intimate resonances of a geopol
 itics of violence (Ghostwriter)? In contrast to Western news\, which rarel
 y covers these problems\, Soleimani makes work that persuades spectators t
 o address them directly and effectively.\n\nSoleimani’s work is held in 
 permanent collections including the Guggenheim Museum\, Museum of Fine Art
 s Boston\, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts\, MIT List Visual Art Center\
 , and Kadist Paris. Her work has been recognized internationally in both e
 xhibitions and publications such as The New York Times\, Financial Times\,
  Art in America\, Interview Magazine\, among many others. Based in Provide
 nce\, Rhode Island\, Soleimani is also an Associate Professor of Studio Ar
 t at Brandeis University and a federally licensed wildlife rehabilitator.\
 n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nAll Photography lectures are free and open to the p
 ublic. \n\nQuestions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu\n\n \n\nImage detail
 : Sheida Soleimani\, Truce\, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Edel Assanti\, 
 London\, and Harlan Levey Projects\, Brussels
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SUMMARY:Fall 2026 Photo Lecture Series | Sheida Soleimani
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 ries-sheida-soleimani
CATEGORIES:Lecture
CATEGORIES:Visiting Artist
CATEGORIES:Photography Lecture Series
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