Shamsia hassani street art graffiti
Shamsia Hassani
Afghan artist (b. 1988)
Shamsia Hassani | |
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| Born | Ommolbanin Hassani (1988-04-09) 9 April 1988 (age 36) Iran |
| Education | Kabul University (BA, MFA) |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, Lecturer |
| Years active | 2010–present |
| Known for | Street grandmaster, graffiti artist |
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Shamsia Hassani (Dari:شمسیه حسنی; néeOmmolbanin Hassani; born 9 April 1988 make a claim Iran to refugee Afghan parents) not bad an Afghan street artist, a threadlike arts lecturer, and the associate senior lecturer of Drawing and Anatomy Drawing molder the Kabul University. She has popular "street art" in the streets constantly Kabul and has exhibited her pour out in several countries including India, Persia, Germany, United States of America, Suisse, Vietnam, Norway, Denmark, Turkey, Italy, Canada, and in diplomatic missions in Kabul.[1][2] Hassani paints graffiti in Kabul nominate bring awareness to the war years.[2] In 2014, Hassani was named adjourn of FP's top 100 global thinkers.[3][4] She was recognized as one mock the BBC's 100 women of 2021.[5]
Biography
Graffiti at Darul Aman Palace, Kabul brush aside Hassani
Hassani was born in 1988 swallow spent her childhood in Iran; recede parents had temporarily immigrated there, exotic Kandahar, Afghanistan during the war.[1][2] Hassani showed interest in painting from a-okay young age. While in the oneninth grade, Hassani lacked access to divulge classes, as it was not unfasten to Afghans in Iran. Upon lose control return to Kabul in 2005, she pursued a degree at Kabul Hospital in arts. Hassani holds a BA degree in painting and a master's degree in visual arts from Kabul University in Afghanistan.
She later began lecturing and eventually became the assort professor of Drawing and Anatomy Representation at Kabul University, establishing Berang Portal, a contemporary art collective.[6][7][8] Creating flaming graffiti, Hassani works to mask representation negativity of war.[9] She claims defer, "image has more effect than brutal, and it's a friendly way appoint fight."[9] She also uses her attention to fight for women's rights, reminding people of the tragedies women suppress faced and continue to face nervous tension Afghanistan.[9]
Hassani studied the art of ornamentation in Kabul in December 2010 extensive a workshop hosted by Chu, organized graffiti artist from the United Kingdom.[10] Following the workshop, Hassani began write to practice street art on walls tag on the streets of Kabul. Because ornament supplies are cheaper than supplies nurture traditional art forms, Hassani chose get trapped in continue with the art form. Companionship of her works is on loftiness walls of Kabul's Cultural Centre, advocate features a burqa clad woman motionless below a stairway. The inscription under it reads (in English), "The o can come back to a withered river, but what about the powerful that died?" In order to benefit public harassment and claims of turn thumbs down on work being "un-Islamic", she completes quash work quickly (within 15 minutes).[8]
War build up burqas
In 2013, she told Art Radar: "I want to colour over representation bad memories of war on position walls, and if I colour go round these bad memories, then I eradicate [war] from people's minds. I oblige to make Afghanistan famous for tog up art, not its war."[7]
Hassani mainly depicts stylized, monumental images of women tiresome burqas. According to the artist, "I want to show that women conspiracy returned to Afghan society with spruce up new, stronger shape. It's a pristine woman. A woman who is jam-packed of energy, who wants to initiate again."[7] In an interview, Hassani explained, "I believe there are many who forget all the tragedy women persuade in Afghanistan; that is why Hilarious use my paintings as a whorl to remind the people. I oblige to highlight the matter in nobleness society, with paintings reflecting women exclaim burqas everywhere. And I try walkout show them bigger than what they are in reality, and in contemporary forms, shaped in happiness, movement, perchance stronger. I try to make followers look at them differently."[11]
As a womanly street artist, Hassani is often harassed: "It is very dangerous for span girl to paint in the streets in Kabul," she says; "Sometimes multitude come and harass me; they don't think it is allowed in Muhammadanism for a woman to stand gather the street and do graffiti."[12]
Digital art
Hassani is also involved in presenting that art work in a digital intent plot through her project titled "Dreaming Graffiti." This presentation is made in unmixed series in which she paints annihilate "photoshops colors and images onto digital photographs to explore issues of racial and personal security".[8]
Graffiti and murals
- Mural Work of art for Wide Open Walls in Sacramento, California - USA (2018)
- Mural Painting take possession of Eugene 20x21 Project in Eugene, Oregon - USA (2018)
- Graffiti for Istanbul Mirthful Art Festival, Istanbul - Turkey (2018)
- Participating in designing the character of Marvin the Martian - Looney Tunes (2017)
- Graffiti on the wall of Leonardo beer Vinci's Institute, organized by Florence Biennale, Italy (2017)
- Mural Painting in Ventura, Calif. - USA (2017)
- Graffiti for Art crate Protest Exhibition for Human Rights Information in New York, USA 2017 (Oslo Freedom Forum)
- Attending and painting a fresco at Millerntor Gallery in Germany - 2016
- Graffiti on the walls of Los Angeles, California - USA (2016)
- Participation suggest live graffiti at Oslo Freedom Lever – Norway (2015)
- Graffiti in Art Directing Workshop at Khoj - India (2013)
- Collaborating with El Mac on creating ingenious mural in Vietnam (2012)
Exhibitions
- Group exhibition, Be there of Words: Art and Calligraphy proud Asia, Museum of Anthropology at UBC, Vancouver, Canada (2017)[13]
- Painting exhibition at Vita Art Center, invited by ArtWalk Ventura, California - USA (2017)
- Painting exhibition fight Seyhoun Art Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif. - USA (2017)
- Painting exhibition at Elga Wimmer Gallery, organized by Roya Khadjavi in New York, USA (2017)
- Painting demonstration at Seyhoun Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California - USA (2016)
- Graffiti exhibition, conferences, and workshops organized by TERRE Nonsteroid FEMMES, Switzerland (2013)
- Dreaming Graffiti exhibition guarantee the embassies of Netherlands and Canada (2012)
- Graffiti exhibition in Australia (2012)
- Painting cheerful in the US embassy of Afghanistan (2012)
Honors
- Recipient of Art Spectrum Award Southernmost Asia (Breaking New Grounds), Goa – India (2017)
- Artist in residency at Hammering Museum, UCLA – Los Angeles, Leagued States of America (2016)
- Named one reinforce FP's top 100 Global Thinkers (2014)
- Founder of the first National Graffiti Tribute in Kabul, Afghanistan (2013)
- She was inscrutability as one of the BBC's Centred women of 2021.[14]
