Rachel Khedoori (born 1964 in
Sydney,
Australia) is a
contemporary artist
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of
Iraqi Jewish
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heritage based in Los Angeles and known primarily for her mixed use of sculpture, film and architecture.
Biography
Khedoori was born in Sydney and raised in Australia. She is the
identical twin
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sister of the artist
Toba Khedoori,
and the sister of David Khedoori. She is also the widow of artist
Jason Rhoades.
Khedoori received her BFA from
San Francisco Art Institute in 1988. She received her MFA from the
University of California, Los Angeles
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, in 1994.
She was a visiting professor at the Academy of Art,
Malmö
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, Sweden in 1996. Khedoori began exhibiting in 1994, a joint debut show with her sister,
Toba Khedoori.
Her first complete solo show gained international attention at
Kunsthalle Basel
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and Kunstverein Braunschweig in 2001. Her exhibition in Basel focused on film projected onto 2-D and 3-D objects.
Rachel's work blends life and the abstract use of film, sculpture and installation.
Khedoori has lived and worked in
Los Angeles, California
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since 1990.
Exhibitions
* ''Untitled (Blue Room),'' David Zwirner Gallery, New York City, New York (1999)
* ''Rachel Khedoori,''
Kunsthalle Basel
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, Basel, Switzerland (2001)
* ''Untitled (Iraq Book Project)'',
Hauser & Wirth
Hauser & Wirth is a Swiss contemporary and modern art gallery.
History
Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth, and Ursula Hauser, who were joined in 2000 by co-president Marc Payot. In 2020, Ewan Venters was ap ...
, London, England (2008)
* ''Untitled (Iraq Book Project),'' The Box, Los Angeles, California (2009)
* ''Paul McCarthy's Low Life Slow Life: Part 2,'' CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, California (2011)
* ''Untitled,'' Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany (2011)
* ''Rachel Khedoori'', Hauser & Wirth New York, New York City, New York (2015)
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See also
*
Iraqi art
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*
List of Iraqi artists
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*
List of Iraqi women artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Iraq or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.
A
* Najiba Ahmad (born 1954), poet
* Kajal Ahmad (born 1967 Kirkuk), Kurdish-Iraqi poet
*Firyal Al-Adhamy (born 1950), painter
* Ree ...
References
External links
Rachel Khedoori - First solo project
Rachel Khedoori - Hauser & Wirth
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1964 births
Living people
Painters from California
Iraqi painters
Iraqi women painters
Identical twins
Artists from Sydney
Australian people of Iraqi-Jewish descent
Australian women painters
Australian emigrants to the United States
American people of Iraqi descent
American women painters
American people of Iraqi-Jewish descent
Jewish American artists
Australian twins
Iraqi contemporary artists
Iraqi women artists
20th-century American women artists
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
San Francisco Art Institute alumni
21st-century American women artists
21st-century American Jews