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Rachel Khedoori
Australian artist (born 1964) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rachel Khedoori (born 1964 in Sydney, Australia[citation needed]) is a contemporary artist of Iraqi Jewish[1] heritage based in Los Angeles and known primarily for her mixed use of sculpture, film and architecture.[2][3]
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Biography
Khedoori was born in Sydney and raised in Australia. She is the identical twin sister of the artist Toba Khedoori,[4] and the sister of David Khedoori. She is also the widow of artist Jason Rhoades.[5]
Khedoori received her BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 1988.[6] She received her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1994.[7] She was a visiting professor at the Academy of Art, Malmö, Sweden in 1996.[8] Khedoori began exhibiting in 1994, a joint debut show with her sister, Toba Khedoori.[4] Her first complete solo show gained international attention at Kunsthalle Basel and Kunstverein Braunschweig in 2001.[9] Her exhibition in Basel focused on film projected onto 2-D and 3-D objects.[10] Rachel's work blends life and the abstract use of film, sculpture and installation.[10]
Khedoori has lived and worked in Los Angeles, California, since 1990.[7]
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Exhibitions
- Untitled (Blue Room), David Zwirner Gallery, New York City, New York (1999)[11]
- Rachel Khedoori, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2001)[12]
- Untitled (Iraq Book Project), Hauser & Wirth, London, England (2008)[13]
- Untitled (Iraq Book Project), The Box, Los Angeles, California (2009)[14]
- Paul McCarthy's Low Life Slow Life: Part 2, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, California (2011)[15]
- Untitled, Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany (2011)[16]
- Rachel Khedoori, Hauser & Wirth New York, New York City, New York (2015)[17]
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