
Soraya Sharghi
Tales of Hidden Garden, 2024
Acrylic, Khatam, and Resin on Canvas
54 x 54 in.
Soraya Sharghi
Song of Tranquility (Red), 2024
Acrylic on Velvet
25 x 19.5 in.
Soraya Sharghi
Song of Tranquility (Beige), 2024
Acrylic on Velvet
25.5 x 19.5 in.
Soraya Sharghi
The Thinker, 2023-2024
Acrylic on Canvas
226.6 x 183 cm
Soraya Sharghi
Rising with the Song of Nymphs, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
60 x 93 in.
Soraya Sharghi
Indefinite Flow, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
52 x 86 in.
Soraya Sharghi
The Resolution of Eve (Eve.15), 2020
Acrylic on Canvas
78 x 45 in.
Soraya Sharghi
The Strength of a Symbol (Eve.7), 2019
Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Canvas
45 x 78 in.
Soraya Sharghi
Revelation (Eve.6), 2019
Acrylic on Canvas
45 x 78 in.
Soraya Sharghi
Subdued Nature (Eve.5), 2018
Acrylic on Canvas
45 x 78 in.
Soraya Sharghi
Slay the Dragon, 2018
Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Canvas
78 x 44 in.
Soraya Sharghi
Passage, 2018
Acrylic on Canvas
70 x 49 in.
Soraya Sharghi
Avoid the Incident, 2018
Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Canvas
63 x 51 in.
Soraya Sharghi
Out of Realm, 2017
Acrylic on Canvas
54 x 54 in.
Soraya Sharghi
Anomaly, 2017
Acrylic on Canvas
62 x 55 in.
Soraya Sharghi is an Iranian artist living and working in New York City. Sharghi creates works in diverse media, such as painting and sculpture. Her artistic aim is to create new myth and narratives using the ancient mythology including persian mythology, revolving around power. She does not see her process as emulating the scenery of these tales, but instead molds them to serve her purpose and creates extraordinary or supernatural beings. Sharghi collaborates across the history and myth and connecting them with her today personal imaginary world, creating new stories with her new characters while personally reaching for a universal language that creates dialogues spanning different social and political contests.
Sharghi holds a BFA in painting from Soore Art University in Tehran, and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California. (After she graduated she started teaching in SFAI public education. She taught studio classes with the subject of personal mythology in Painting and sculpture.) She has received several awards and residences including MFA Fellowship from San Francisco Art Institute, the Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Award, the Graduate Fellowship Alternate Award from Headlands Center for the Arts, finalist for Tournesol award and Blau Gold Fellowship. Residencies including The Post Contemporary and Brush Creek foundation for the Arts. Her work has shown locally and internationally such as CICA Contemporary Museum(Czong Institute for Contemporary Art) in Korea, Today Art Museum in China, MOAH Museum in Los Angeles, Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, Andrea Schwartz Gallery and SOMArts in San Francisco, Aaran Gallery, Mah Gallery and Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran, Iran among others.