Toba Khedoori (born 1964 in
Australia) is an artist of
Iraqi heritage, known primarily for highly detailed mixed-media paintings executed on large sheets of wax-coated paper.
Biography
Khedoori was born in
Sydney of Jewish-Iraqi parentage and raised in
Australia, and currently lives and works in
Los Angeles, California
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. She received her MFA from UCLA in 1994. She is the
identical twin
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sister of artist
Rachel Khedoori
Rachel Khedoori (born 1964 in Sydney, Australia) is a contemporary artist of Iraqi Jewish heritage based in Los Angeles and known primarily for her mixed use of sculpture, film and architecture.
Biography
Khedoori was born in Sydney and raise ...
.
[Roberta Smith (March 05, 1999]
"Art in Review; Rachel Khedoori"
''The New York Times''.
Artwork
Characteristically, Khedoori's works have comprised intricate details, models or architectural renderings set within the broad expanses of waxed paper or linen. This delicate combination frequently necessitates close viewing which results, then, in the works filling the spectator's entire field of vision. In recent years, Khedoori's works have introduced inversions of the more usual black detail on white expanse, incorporated natural imagery and landscape, and also taken the form of dramatically smaller-scale works than those hitherto produced. Her most recent output has also moved from wax-on-paper into oil and canvas, with subject matter drawing influence from geometric sequences.
Toba Khedoori is represented by Regen Projects, Los Angeles and
David Zwirner, New York.
Exhibitions
Khedoori began exhibiting in 1993, and was shown early in her career at the 1995
Whitney Biennial
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exhibition. Khedoori has since had solo exhibitions at the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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, in the
St. Louis Art Museum
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, the
Whitechapel Art Gallery
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in London, the
Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, to ...
in Minneapolis, and the
Hirshhorn Museum
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in Washington D.C., among others. Khedoori's work is in the permanent collections of the
Museum of Modern Art
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It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
and the
Whitney Museum of Art
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in New York, as well as the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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and the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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.
Awards
Khedoori was awarded a $500,000
MacArthur Fellowship
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in 2002.
Art market
Khedoori is represented by
Regen Projects , Los Angeles and
David Zwirner, New York.
See also
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Iraqi art
Iraqi art is one of the richest art heritages in world and refers to all works of visual art originating from the geographical region of what is present day Iraq since ancient Mesopotamian periods. For centuries, the capital, Baghdad was the Med ...
*
Islamic art
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*
List of Iraqi artists
The following is a list of important artists, including visual arts, poets and musicians, who were born in Iraq, active in Iraq or whose body of work is primarily concerned with Iraqi themes or subject matter.
Note: This article uses Arabic nami ...
*
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
Toba Khedoori - Regen ProjectsWalker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Village Voice
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Living people
MacArthur Fellows
Painters from California
Iraqi painters
Identical twins
Artists from Sydney
Australian emigrants to the United States
American people of Iraqi-Jewish descent
1964 births
Jewish American artists
American women painters
Australian twins
Iraqi women artists
Australian women artists
Iraqi contemporary artists
Australian people of Iraqi-Jewish descent
20th-century American women artists
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Iraqi Jews
21st-century American women artists
21st-century American Jews