Shoja Azari is an Iranian-born visual artist and filmmaker based in New York City, known for Women Without Men (2009 film) (2009), Windows (2006) and K (2002 film) (2002) based on 3 of Franz Kafka's short stories ("The Married Couple," "In the Penal Colony" and "A Fratricide").Azari was born in Shiraz, Iran, trained as a filmmaker in New York in the 1970s before returning to Iran for the Revolution in 1979. He then permanently returned to the U.S., where he later became artistic and romantic partners with iconic photographer Shirin Neshat. Mr. Azari’s film and multimedia installations have been increasingly showcased in galleries and museums around the world.
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