"At or near the surface of the earth," 2021, 5-channel audio composition, transducers, amplifiers, fog
"ALBEDO," 2022, Fluorescent lights, pirate AM radio with audio broadcast, polypropylene, water in absence and presence, 120 current electricity, ionosphere, resonant space. photo: Jorge Bachmann
"Ghatel," 2021, Embossed cotton rag, 21 x 28 inches. photo: Yael Eban
Sholeh Asgary
Lecturer
Email: sholehasgary@berkeley.edu
Website: https://www.sholehasgary.com/
Instagram: @sholehasgary
Office Hours: AAPB 238, by appointment: https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/whhuv
Sholeh Asgary is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary sound artist whose immersive works, performances, and audience participatory scores implicate the viewer-participant into future mythological excavations, bridging large swathes of time and history through water, water clocks, crude oil, movement, light, imaging, voice, and sound.
Featured in Art in America’s 2022 “New Talent Issue, Asgary has been supported by numerous residencies, most recently including Headlands Center for the Arts, MASS MoCA, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, UCLA Art Sci, ARoS Kunstmuseum, and Berkeley Art Center*. Her work has been presented through exhibitions, performances, and screenings by such institutions as Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Minnesota Street Project, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art,* Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, 500 Capp St., and Ann Arbor Film Festival. Asgary is a recipient of a 2021 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant for her solo exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY, a 2019 Kenneth Rainin Foundation New Project Grant with Dance Elixir, and a 2020 California Arts Council Grant for her program MAJLES. Asgary’s practice is a conglomeration of visual, sound, and collective processes, all of which she is deeply dedicated to. Asgary holds an MFA from Mills College and BA from San Francisco State University and currently serves on the Curatorial Council for Southern Exposure.
Courses taught:
ART 119 Global Perspectives in Contemporary Art
ART 171 Video Projects
Other projects
Majles - a monthly audience participatory sound + movement workshop I host, part of Artists in Communities / California Arts Council with Arab.AMP