
Kuda Mapeza
Multi disciplinary
2024
Read MoreHadieh Shafie is an Iranian American visual artist based in the USA. Her work collapses the space between, drawing, painting and sculpture and is at once process-oriented and intricate.
Shafie’s work is in the following public collections: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Victoria and Albert Museum; Princeton Museum of Art, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia; Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Nebraska; The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Winter Park, FL; Art in Embassies, Public Collection Dubai, UAE; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); The British Museum and The Brooklyn Museum of Art,
Shafie holds an MFA in imaging and digital arts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Shafie has been the recipient of grants from the Kress Foundation, RTKL and MSAC Individual Artist Grant (2010 and 2008) and the Mary Sawyers Baker awards from the William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund (2009) and Franz and Virginia Bader Fund (2011) and her work was shortlisted for the Jameel Prize (2011). She was an awardee of the 2012 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and she was Nominated for the Anonymous Was a Woman award in 2017.
In Australia, Shafie is represented by Ames Yavuz, Sydney
Taking inspiration from the unique landscape and flora that is uniquely Australian I will explore ideas of time and memory creating new body of work on paper.