Roxana Azar is a Philadelphia-based artist whose light art and dichroic plexiglass sculpture work utilizes photography, digital manipulation, and sculpture to create biomorphic objects and speculative artifacts influenced by science fiction, Persian miniatures, and the Memphis Group. Their new work includes holographic vases, mobiles, furniture, and lucite florals with images of collaged greenhouses and gardens. By using vibrant and holographic NASA-engineered materials, a dynamic visual experience of both the image and object is created where there are color shifting shadows, transparency, and reflections all at once. Their work has been displayed in galleries and public spaces alike around the country.
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Plants Against the Patriarchy, Elephant Magazine, written by Natalie Hegert
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Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2022
Licking the Thorns of a Rose, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2020
The crocus call, with GM Keaton, High Tide Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Roxana Azar and Alex Kovacs (Boy Ceramics), Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Windows on Latimer, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
2019
Projections in the Last Greenhouse (solo), Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
2018
A Big Toe Touches A Green Tomato, with Ginevra Shay. Resort Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
2017
Plantoid. Skylab Gallery, Columbus, OH.
Plantoid. Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA.
2012
Through A Gilded Stomach. Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
Select Group Exhibitions + Public and Permanent Art Installations
2024
Art at Amtrak: FLOURISH. 30th St. Amtrak Station. Philadelphia, PA
2022
Redmond Lights, Redmond Town Center, Redmond/Seattle, Washington.
Holographic Greenhouse, ArtKids, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
Radiant Material, Kohl Gallery, Washington College. Chestertown, MD.
2021
Spring/Break Art Fair. Inliquid Gallery Booth. Curated by Caitlin McCormack. NYC.
The Waverly Toronto - Permanent Art Installation. Toronto, CAN
Orchids: Attraction and Deception. Group show at Barry Art Museum.
2020
Installation at the Philadelphia Flower Shower Show with From Blossoms, Philadelphia, PA (February-March 2020).
The Print Center’s 94th Annual International Competition, Online Show (Semi-finalist).
2019
Superfine! Art Fair, Paradigm x HAHA MAG installations with Justin Tyner, Lauren Cat West, and Roxana Azar, Washington, DC.
Space Laundry, Curated by Jon Feinstein at Washer Dryer Projects, Salt Lake City, UT.
The Beauty of the Common Tool, Gravy Studio, Philadelphia, PA.
Intersections: Here/There. Curated by Julianna Foster. Inliquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
Permanent art installation in 12 rooms at Drake Motor Inn, Prince Edward County, Canada.
Yowie storefront window art installation, Philadelphia, PA
What Lies Between, group show curated by Madeline Cass, Lincoln, NE.
2018
Projections in the Last Greenhouse: Art Installation at the Drake Hotel in Toronto, Canada.
Welcome to Miami, Neon Heater Gallery. Findlay, OH
A Rose is a Screen is a Rose. curated by Magali Duzant. Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
Surface Tension Won’t Last Forever. iFell Gallery, Bloomington, IN
Command + N group show, Scene Metro Space. Michigan State University Galleries. East Lansing, MI.
2017
Der Greif: Thread Count. CO-OP, Unseen Photo Fair. Amsterdam.
One Foot Planted Firmly in the Ground. IRL Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
Rubber Factory Posters Pop-Up. NYC.
night waffles. FAB Gallery, Richmond VA.
Life & Living. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Center, curated by Deli Gallery, Kingston, NY.
Emerge 2017. Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA.
2016
1-800 How's My Driving. FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA.
Swing State. Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA.
Elements Satellite Show. Richmond, VA.
Emerge 2016. Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA.
Fresh From Poland & Doomed Gallery at Krakow Photo Fringe. i! Gallery, Krakow, Poland.
Landscapes. Chasen Galleries, Richmond, VA.
Fixed Target. JAJAJA Space, University of Notre Dame, IN.
Common Senses. Center for Photography at Woodstock. NY.
6,000 Fathoms. FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA.
2015
Space Jams. Humble Arts Foundation online exhibition.
So What?. Doomed Gallery. London, UK.
Positive Reinforcement. Gallery Four. Baltimore, MD.
Drag / Drop. Doomed Gallery. London, UK.
Room For Cream. FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA.
This Is It / Now Snapchat Group Exhibition. Panel Talk: Signal Gallery, NYC.
Re-View. curated by Diego Diez, COMBO Arts, Cordoba Photography Biennial, Spain.
Oranbeg Net 14 (PDF show co-curated with Ginevra Shay)
Oranbeg Net 10 (PDF Show)
This Just In. Depot Gallery, Richmond, VA.
2014
Post-Cocktail x TGIF Gallery. Brooklyn, NY.
Fluorescent Corpse. Neon Heater Gallery, Findlay, Ohio.
Trompe-L’Oeil: VICE Magazine’s 13th Annual Photo Exhibition. Pioneer Works, Center for Art and Innovation. Brooklyn, NY.
BLOG RE-BLOG. Curated by Max Marshall and Paul Paper. Presented by the Austin Center of Photography. Big Medium at Canopy, Austin TX.
Der Greif: A Process. Neue Galerie in Höhmannhaus, Augsburg, Germany.
2013
Hot Bed. TGIF Gallery. Brooklyn, NY.
BLOG RE-BLOG. Curated by Max Marshall and Paul Paper. Signal Gallery, New York City, NY.
Toner Party. Apothecary, Asheville, NC.
Gone Shadowing. Curated by Alex Walcroft. Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA.
2012
The Print Center’s 86th Annual International Competition: Photography. Curated by Jennifer Blessing. Online Exhibition.
Artist Talks and Lectures
2019
Mural Arts Artist in Conversation: Ouzi and Roxana Azar, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.
Awards
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Graduate Fellowship, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2015-2017
Collections
Capital One, Richmond, VA | University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
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