Omid Shekari: Seeking a Way Out

From TAMIU Art Gallery:

“Omid Shekari is an artist from Iran who works with different mediums and genres: paintings, drawings, sculpture, and installations. He is deeply committed to the responsibility of art to reflect and resist sovereign violence in both its flagrant forms (wars, tortures, prisons) and in its everyday forms (abandonment and policing of bodies). In his artworks, Shekari reveals how force and violence determine the rhythms of power structures. He explores the power dynamics between repressed and repressor that has existed in our society and has been normalized under capitalism. Overall, his projects refuse to secede or be bogged down by power but seek to create idioms and modes of resistance and liberation. 

Shekari received his BFA from Soore University in Tehran and MFA from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. His work has been exhibited at The Sculpture Center, Akron Art Museum and Oberlin College (OH); The Drawing Center, Wilmer Jennings Gallery and NADA Art Fair (NYC); Marginal Utility Gallery, Gallery Joe, PAFA Museum, Fleisher Art Memorial and Woodmere Art Museum (Philadelphia); Greenfield Community College (MA); and Azad Art Gallery (Tehran).”