Hoda
Kashiha
This
exhibition
is a
selection
of
my
paintings
in
the
past
two
years,
my
effort
for
continuous
breaking
of
the
everyday
mental
conventions
that
I
used
to
follow.
In
this
collection,
instead
of
expressing
and
narrating
exaggerated
ideas,
I
have
tried
to
capture
ordinary
events
and
moments
of
routine
life,
in a
way
that
the
viewer
gets
the
chance
to
sympathize,
or
laugh
with
the
characters.
Characters
freed
of
time
and
specific
narrations,
who
try
to
describe
themselves
in
an
unknown
situation
and
experience
contradictory
and
temporary
emotions
such
as
beauty
and
ugliness,
power
and
weakness,
love
and
hatred.
The
meaning
keeps
shifting
and
is
never
fixed,
heroes
are
created
and
then
destroyed
with
the
same
ease.
In
the
end,
distorting
the
natural
form
of
figures,
considering
canvas
as
part
of
the
work,
making
balance
between
figurative
and
abstract
painting,
recreating
master
pieces
in
the
history
of
art
and
combining
them
in
one
piece,
are
all
attempts
to
destroy
the
linear
narrative
in
my
recent
works.
Hoda
Kashiha
Born
in
1986,
Tehran,
Iran
Education:
2014
MFA
in
Painting,
Boston
University,
Boston,
MA,
USA
2009
BFA
in
Painting,
University
of
Tehran,
Tehran,
Iran
Selected
Solo
Exhibitions:
2014
“I
Scream
Louder
than
You”,
Commonwealth
Gallery,
Boston,
MA,
USA
2013
“Untitled”,
Etemad
Gallery,
Tehran,
Iran
2011
“Untitled”,
Elaheh
Gallery,
Tehran,
Iran
Selected
Group
Exhibitions:
2015
“Untitled”,
Etemad
Gallery,
Tehran,
Iran
2015
“New
Narrative”,
Storefront
Ten
Eyck,
Brooklyn,
NY,
USA
2014
“New
Talent
Exhibition”,
Alpha
Gallery,
MA,
USA
2014
“Realities”,
Emerson
College,
Boston,
MA,
USA
2013
“Big,
Red,
Shindig”,
Mills
Gallery,
BCA,
Boston,
MA,
USA
2013
“Boston
Young
Competition”,
808
Gallery,
Boston,
MA,
USA
2013
“Untitled”,
Sherman
Gallery,
Boston,
MA,
USA
2012
“Unexposed”,
Tour
&
Taxis
Hall,
Brussels,
Belgium
2011
“Over
a
Line”,
Homa
Art
Gallery,
Tehran,
Iran
2010
“Speak
Farsi
Greek:
Sketching
through
the
Walls”,
ICC,
Athens,
Greece
2009
“Re-assemblage”,
Assar
Art
Gallery,
Tehran,
Iran
Selected
Awards
and
Art
Residencies:
2015
MacDowell
Colony
Fellowship,
Peterborough,
NH,
USA
2015
John
Mitchel
Foundation
Grant,
Vermont
Studio
Center,
Johnson,
VT,
USA
2015
The
League
Residency
Fellowship
at
VYT,
Sparkill,
NY,
USA
2014
Byrdcliffe
Art
Colony
Fellowship,
Woodstock,
NY,
USA
2014
Esther
B.
and
Albert
S.Kahn
Award,
USA
