British-Iranian, B. 1988
SHADI REZAEI is a London-based interdisciplinary artist, creative art director, and curator who opens up a philosophical depth within her work, propelling it into the realms of the sublime. She received her BA in Graphic Design from the University of Art in Tehran, her MFA in Fine Arts, h from UAL, Chelsea College of Arts and Design in London, 2017.
Her passion for the visual arts comprises of an exploration of the relationships between tradition and contemporary art. Her works bring a series of mutable and spontaneous gestures that negotiate the relationship between stability and uncertainty.
The artistic narratives she wishes to communicate determine the medium she chooses to work in. Her journey of examination and exploration is carried out through various creative media and the use of unconventional materials, which enable her to create and question metaphoric expressions of the human identity. Many medias such as video, sound art, interactive art, hand-stitching, painting and photography are utilised in her artworks; the artist’s interests lying in portraiture, nudes —more recently abstract geometry and interactive digital art. Artworks sprung from the artist’s lucid dreams and eidetic memory, offer visual stimulation and prompt thought.
A standout feature of Shadi Rezaei’s artworks are the paradoxes providing layers within them, such as; femininity/masculinity, beauty/ugliness, pain/pleasure, power/weakness and stability/ instability.
Rezaei’s works have been exhibited in several group exhibitions and auctions in the United Kingdom, USA, France, Monaco, Spain, Dubai & Switzerland as well as having been presented in many panels and publications.
