Glass Sculptures

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 Showgirls curated by HP Garcia (with catalogue) at MUSECPMI, New York, NY

2009 Book Launch for “Unspoken” at The National Arts Club, New York, NY

2008 “Unspoken” (“Konuulmayan”) curated by Lutfi Sen and sponsored by the Metropolitan Municipality of Istanbul Cemal Resit Rey (CRR) in Istanbul, Turkey

2007 “Unspoken” presented by Dr. Judy Kuriansky of the Salam Institute for Peace and Justice at the Muslim Peace Building in Washington D.C.

2007 “Unspoken” curated by James Cavello at The National Arts Club New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016 “O Nature! My Nurture!” curated By Jason Clay Lewis The Royal Society of American Art in New York, NY

2011 “Pandemonium” curated By HP Garcia New York Center of Photography and the Moving Image in New York, NY

2009 “Multiple Personalities” (with catalogue) curated by Rogerio Blanc-Ramos at One Plus Two Studio in Sydney, Australia and at the Callan Park Psychiatric Ward

2009 “Sydney- In the Aura” curated by Rogerio Blanc-Ramos at One Plus Two Studio in Sydney, Australia

2009 “Black Madonna” (with catalogue) curated by HP Garcia at HP Garcia Gallery in New York, NY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2012 Artery Contemporary Art Magazine Interview with Marissa Soroudi by Daniel Rothbart

2012 Trans-posing the Gaze: Marissa Soroudi’s “Showgirls” by Gillian Sneed

2009 The Great Work: Black Madonna catalogue essay by Lisa Paul Streitfeld

2008 Penetrating the Inner Gaze: Marissa Soroudi’s “Unspoken” by Lisa Paul Streitfeld

2008 Today’s Zaman, Üç din, bu vizörde buluştu (Three Religions, Through One

These sculptures are blown from a series of molds that I casted from the body. They are photographed at different times of the day. These figures in their stillness reflect the movement of the tides and the animated light of the sun, the source of life. What appears to be empty is actually full.

HANDBLOWN GLASS, 2015-2016

Make sense of the selfie… a poetic dimension, beyond the apparent ego trip. An image that distracts from seeing true self. We see ourselves, we grow into a new being, or is it when we see our reflection, we’re blind to everyone else.

CHROMED PLASTER CARVED IN WOOD, 2015

I spent 3 yrs painting in Oceania in pursuit of defining beauty for myself. I found cultures still engaged with cannibalism, people that lived in the trees, and societies that used stones as currency. In a noonday dream, a woman is planted with a thousand flowers, her pulse flushed with color.

Oil PAINTING ON PRINTED CANVAS, 2007-2010

These videos were shot in Salar de Uyuni, the Salt Dessert in Bolivia. Here, the elements of my mind and the physical world are one creation, one consciousness. In this space, nothing has a separate independent self.

Video 2014

SALT + SPACE 1

SALT MOSAIC

SALT + SPACE 2

These men were clients in a strip club persuaded to pose in the costume of their favorite girl in the club. See interview below for more information.