About Hadieh Shafie
Born 1969. Hadieh Shafie is an artist.
Hadieh Shafie (born 1969) is an Iranian-American visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York.
Biography She was born in Tehran, Iran, and migrated to the United States in 1983.
Many of her works comprise tightly coiled strips of brightly coloured paper, bearing calligraphy, arranged in patterns: she has described them as "part sculpture, part drawing, part artist’s book".
Her works are held, among others, by the British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum,
Shafie held a solo exhibition, "Surfaced", in New York's Leila Heller Gallery in March and April 2015.
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Iranian-American visual artist (born 1969)
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