Tuesday Night Lecture Series: Anoushé Shojae-Chaghorvand

As part of the Tuesday Night Lecture Series (TNLS) BU College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts presents a lecture with artist Anoushé Shojae-Chaghorvand, organized by the MFA Sculpture program.

Anoushé Shojae-Chaghorvand is an Iranian-American transdisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia who works primarily in kinetic sculpture. She creates “spatial cinema”—time-based, looping, high-tension scenes—in the form of performative installations that capture the complexity, violence, and absurdity of our American Dream. Shojae-Chaghorvand’s work encompasses a variety of time-based media, initially beginning her artistic practice in performance art and then expanding into kinetic sculpture. In her work, Shojae-Chaghorvand is drawn to the ephemeral and plays with the notion of liveness, using kinetics because of their propulsion to their own destruction. She is currently interested in recreating the escapist tactics of amusement in Western culture. Anoushé received her BFA from Maine College of Art in 2019, her MFA from Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2022, a 2023 fellow at A.I.R. Gallery in New York, and most recently an artist in residence at RAIR (Recycled Artist In Residence) in Philadelphia.

This event is sponsored in part by Boston University Diversity & Inclusion.