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Shahrzad Changalvaee is an artist based in Brooklyn.Working across installation,sculpture, photography, performance and video, her practice responds to sculpture making. Her post-migration works are mainly generated through visual found/basic material and respond to the tension between language and physicality, as well as to the space between ‘wording’ and ‘making’. Through structures that are mostly temporal, fragile and fragmented, she constructs narratives that question local/global, information/anecdote, language/communication and alienism/exoticism.

Her exhibitions include In Absentia, In Effigie, The Chimney NYC, Brooklyn, (2019), The Understandables Always Arrive From Far Away, Soho20, Brooklyn, (2018), You Cannot The Same River Twice, O Gallery, Tehran, (2016), Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai (2015), Recalling the Future: Post Revolutionary Iranian Arts, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, UK, 2014.

Born in 1983, Tehran, Iran, Shahrzad remembers thinking about becoming a teacher on her very first day of school. She has taught courses and workshops in American University of Beirut, Yale School of Art, Caldwell University, SUNY and more. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 2015, and her BA in Visual Communications from Tehran University in 2006. Shahrzad lives and works in Brooklyn.

Watchers, Drippers, Leavers, Inkjet print on photo paper, 2019
Watchers, Drippers, Leavers, Inkjet print on photo paper, 2019

 

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Caleb Ehly is a designer at Young Projects in New York City, an Adjunct Assistant Professor at The Cooper Union, and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Idaho, and held design positions on the West Coast in Los Angeles and Washington State. He has served as a guest juror at UCLA, Pratt, Texas A&M, Temple University, the University of Idaho, the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Ball State University, the University of Kentucky, and Penn. He has lectured at the University of Oregon and UCLA. 
 
He holds a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Idaho, where he received the Arthur Troutner Fellowship, and an M.Arch from the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design, where his honors included the AIA Pennsylvania Chapter Student Medal, the Paul Cret T-Square Fellowship, the Dales Traveling Fellowship, and nomination for the 2021 Archiprix Award. In the summers of 2020 and 2021, he was a PennPraxis Design Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. 
 
His work and collaborations have been exhibited and published by the A+D Museum in Los Angeles, ACADIA, LOG, the Venice Biennale, Dezeen, Pratt, Penn, and numerous other venues and outlets.

Ehly's CV is available here

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