Sofi Basseghi – Curriculum Vitae
Lives and works, Melbourne, Australia
Biography |
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Sofi Basseghi is a visual artist based in Melbourne, Australia. She completed a Masters of Fine Arts degree in 2007 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and pursued further graduate studies in directing in 2011 at the Victorian College of the Arts school of Film and Television. Her award winning films, photographs and video work have been exhibited at internationally acclaimed venues and galleries including West Space, The Substation, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art and the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. Her work is based predominantly on real and fictitious stories born of experiences arising from the complexities of the cultural, religious and social climate people find themselves in. Her desire to cross inflicted boundaries and question cultural and traditional mores is evident in her work. She is currently a PhD (Art) candidate at RMIT University where her practice-based research uses photography, documentary and video art practices as tools to express narratives revealing an image of contemporary female Iranian rebellion. Sofi serves on the Board of West Space and she is a committee member on the Arts Advisory Committee at Manningham Council. |
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Education |
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| 2014-current | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne, VIC [Recipient of the Australian Post Graduate Award] |
| 2011 | Graduate Diploma (Narrative), Film & Television, VCA, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2006-2007 | Master of Fine Art, RMIT, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2002-2005 | Bachelor of Media Arts, Honours, [First Class], RMIT, Melbourne, VIC |
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Solo Exhibitions |
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| 2016 | West Space Gallery, Rebellious Fragments, Melbourne, Australia, Video Installation |
| 2016 | Blindside Gallery, Ascending Voices, Melbourne, Australia, Video Installation |
| 2009 | Shirin Gallery,Sayeh Saran (Conversations with History), Tehran, Iran, Photographic |
| 2007 |
69 Smith Street Gallery,Salt on Slugs, Abbotsford, Australia, Mixed Media 69 Smith Street Gallery, Turmoil, Abbotsford, Australia, Photographic |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
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| 2018 |
September 28th – ‘Bowness Prize’, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia September 22nd – ‘The Family Mantle’, Curated by Pia Johnson Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre, Melbourne,Australia, Mixed Media March 29th – ‘Cultural Crossroads’, Curated by Vanessa Godden John The Aurora Picture Show, Houston,USA, Video March 22nd - ‘Hyphenated’, Curated by Tammy Wong Hulbert and Phuong Ngo, The Substation, Melbourne,Australia, Video Installation Feb 21st – ‘Conspicuous Presence’, Curated by Caroline Phillips and the Women’s Art Register, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne, Australia, Video and Photographic |
| 2017 |
‘Visionary Art Show’, Palazzo Vernazza Castromediano, Lecce, Italy, Video ‘Identity Intersection’, Curated by Tassia Joannides, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, Video Installation ‘The Lines In Between’, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, Video Installation ‘Light Works’, MLC Common Ground Exhibition Space, Melbourne, Australia, Photographic ‘Turtles all the way down’, King’s Leap Gallery, NY, USA, Video |
| 2016 |
‘Museum of International Connectivity’, The Dirty Dozen, Curated by Dr Phil Edwards Morgan Court public art boxes installation in collaboration with Dr Phil Edwards for the City of Moreland, Glenroy, Australia, Mixed Media Installation |
| 2015 |
Incinerator Art Award Finalist’s Exhibition, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, Video Primo Piano Gallery, In a Pink Room, Lecce, Italy, Photographic |
| 2014 |
Moonee Art Space, MooneeFest Residency, Melbourne, Australia, Photographic Primo Piano Gallery, ‘Imaginary’Lecce, Italy, Video Installation Primo Piano Gallery, ‘Urban Storytellers,’Lecce Italy, Video Installation |
| 2013 | Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Shoot it Out. On the Silk Road, Rome, Italy, Short Film Queensland Multicultural Week Inaugural Film Festival 2013, Brisbane, Australia, Short Film ‘Head On’, Photo Festival and Portrait Prize, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Photographic Primo Piano Gallery, ‘Regeneration’, Lecce, Italy, Video Installation |
| 2012 |
Kings ARI, ‘Icons’, Melbourne, Australia, Photography and Video Installation Shirin Gallery, Crucifixion, Tehran, Iran, Photographic Ionian International Digital Film Festival (IIDFF), Lefkas, Greece, Short Film Iranian Film Festival Australia, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, Australia, Short Film Brantford Film Festival, Brantford, Canada, Short Film |
| 2011 | Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), VCA Graduate Screenings, Melbourne, Australia, Short Film |
| 2008 | Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Hatched 2008, Perth, Australia, Photographic Blindside Gallery, Humming a New Diaspora, Melbourne, Australia, Video Installation |
| 2007 |
Scala Theatre, Directors Lounge 2008, Berlin, Video 69 Smith Street Gallery, Voyeur One, Abbotsford, Australia, Video Installation |
| 2006 |
The Horse Bazaar, Show Me Yours, Melbourne, VIC; this exhibition was curated by myself and Abina Manning, Associate Director of the Video Data Bank, Chicago, Video Seventh Gallery, A Portrait of Salote Tawale, Fitzroy, Australia, Photographic |
| 2005 |
69 Smith St Gallery, The Cherrypickers, RMIT Honours Show, Abbotsford, Australia, Video Installation TekniKunst Contemporary Technology Festival, RMIT Theatre, Melbourne, Australia, Video |
| 2004 |
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA), Persian Gardens Ancient Wisdom New Vision Exhibition, Tehran, Iran, Video Installation Smyrnios Gallery, Michka, Graduate Exhibition, Prahran, Australia, Photographic St Vincent’s Hospital, Keith Project, Melbourne, Australia, Video |
| 2003 | First Site Gallery, We Call This Paradise, Melbourne, Australia, Photographic Loop Bar, Adrift, Melbourne, Australia, Video |
| 2002 |
First Site Gallery, Static, Melbourne, Australia, Photographic 4 Cats Gallery, Chador, Abbotsford, Australia, Photographic |
Residencies |
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| 2015 | Artists Incubator Glenroy, Melbourne, Australia (http://www.artists-incubator.com/artists/) |
| 2014 |
Moonee Art Space, MooneeFest Residency, Melbourne, Australia, Photographic |
Collectives |
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| 2016-current | Triple F+ Collective (http://triplefcollective.weebly.com/) |
Publications |
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| 2014 | Australian Rationalist Magazine |
Conferences/Symposiums/Panel Discussions |
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| 2018
5-8th December – AAANZ 2018 conference Aesthetics, Politics and Histories: The Social Context of Art Panel member with Tammy Wong Hulbert and Rhett D’Costa 28th March - CAST Out loud: Artists from the Hyphenated Exhibition Panel Discussion at RMIT University | |
| 2017
Identity Intersection, Women, Art and Cultural Perspectives Counihan Gallery | |
| 2016 |
The Persian Prospect Centre for Art Society and Transformation (CAST) – RMIT University |
| 2015 |
The Social Response (a Dialogue around Art and Social Engagement) Centre for Art Society and Transformation (CAST) – RMIT University |
Honours and Awards |
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| 2018 | Bowness Prize Finalist, Monash Gallery of Art |
| 2015 | Incinerator Art Award Finalist - Art for Social Change |
| 2014 | RMIT PhD Scholarship |
| 2013 | Film Award – ‘The Orchard’- First prize at the Queensland Multicultural Film Festival |
| 2012 | Film Award – ‘The Orchard’- Best Short Film, Best Script, Best Editing and Best Cinematography in a Short film at the Ionian International Digital Film Festival – Greece |
| 2008 | Selected to participate in Hatched 08 an exhibition of works by top students from top Australian Universities at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art |
| 2005 | First Class Honours Degree |
| 2004 | Member of Golden Key International Honour Society |
Media Interviews |
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| 2015 | Syn Media Art Smitten - A correspondence with Sofi Basseghi & Hannah Nowlan: Incinerator Art Award Finalists |
| 2013 |
Meanjin online magazine - A correspondence with Sofi Basseghi 3ZZZ Community Radio Interviewing Sofi Basseghi |
| 2007 | Interviewing Sofi Basseghi SBS Radio – World View Program: Losing the treasures of Persian culture |
| 2007 |
SBS Radio – World View Program - Losing the treasures of Persian culture SBS Radio – Persian Service - Interview with Sofi Basseghi |
© Sofi Basseghi 2002-2019