Sheree Hovsepian | |
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Born | 1974 (age 50–51) |
Alma mater | University of Toledo, School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
Known for | collage, photography |
Spouse | Rashid Johnson |
Children | 1 |
Sheree Hovsepian (born 1974) is an Iranian-born American artist. She primarily works in photography and collage, in addition to sculpture and drawing. [1] [2] [3] Her work is often concerned with the human form and matters of identity. [4] [5] She is based in New York City, with houses in the Gramercy Park neighborhood and in Bridgehampton in the Hamptons. [6] [7] [8]
Sheree Hovsepian was born in 1974 in Isfahan, Iran. [6] In 1976, her family immigrated to the United States, when she was 2 years old and she was raised in Toledo, Ohio. [9] Hovsepian attended University of Toledo for her undergraduate degree, graduating in 1999. [3] Later she continued her studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where she studied under the late Barbara DeGenevieve [5] and received her Master of Fine Arts degree in 2002. [10] She met her future husband, artist Rashid Johnson, while at SAIC. [2] Together they have one son. [11]
Hovsepian's work often is collage, featuring a photograph of the human body and mirroring geometric shapes and including other materials, such as found objects, fabric, paper, wood, and string. [5] [12] [13] Hovsepian cites artists Sophie Calle, Annette Messeger, Lorna Simpson and Ana Mendieta as influences. [5]
Her work is in various public museum collections including at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, [14] the Bronx Museum of the Arts, [1] the Art Institute of Chicago, [1] the Studio Museum in Harlem, [1] among others. [15]
Gramercy Park neighborhood...Sheree Hovsepian, currently own a smaller Manhattan town house that they bought for $3.7 million in 2013; they have been spending much of quarantine in the Hamptons, at a property they bought in 2015
Bridgehampton
Guggenheim permanent collection through acquisitions of emerging artists such as Mounira Al Solh, Meriem Bennani, Sheree Hovsepian