6.29.2016
The Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Islands of the Sun, a HATCH Projects exhibition featuring works by 2015 MFA Alumna Soheila Azadi, Jeremiah Jones, and Hillary Wiedemann. Islands of the Sun is curated by George William Price. The exhibition is up and will run until July 14th.
Soheila Azadi is an interdisciplinary visual artist based in Chicago and Iran. Born in Esfahān, Azadi absorbed storytelling skills through Persian miniature drawings from the age of nine. Azadi’s inspirations come from her experiences of being a woman while living under Theocracy. Now residing in the U.S., Azadi is dedicated to transnational feminism with a passionate devotion to the ways in which race, religion, gender, sexuality, class, and ethnicity intersect. Azadi uses performance art and performative installations as methods to both materialize and narrate stories about women’s everyday struggle in the world. Azadi holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and currently teaches at Oakton Community College. She has exhibited in galleries and festivals nationally, including Rapid Pulse International Performance Festival, Woman Made Gallery, ARC Gallery as well as internationally in Germany, Canada, Brazil, Italy, and Portugal.