# Sheree Hovsepian

> Sheree Hovsepian is an Iranian-born American artist. Her art, which includes photography, collage, sculpture and drawing, explores Identity, subjectivity and representation through the lens of embodiment and a visual language of shapes, objects and associations. Her most recognizable works - shadow-boxed photo-assemblages that interweave figurative imagery with natural and manufactured materials - are characterized by their divergent impulses toward formalism, the handmade, poetic metaphor and a contemporary examination of female experience. Critics note how these pieces treat photography as sculptural material to produce synthetic compositions, blurring boundaries between abstraction and figuration, as well as different media. Hyperallergic critic Seph Rodney observes, "[Hovsepian] depicts sections of the body in conversation with angular forms that ride a fine line between art object, design element and utilitarian tool. The work all has the subtle feel of high Modernist composition, but demonstrates greater self-awareness of the politics that surround and inhabit our bodies."

*Iranian-born American photographer (born 1974)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Artist
- **Category:** Artists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1974
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Sheree Hovsepian is an Iranian-born American artist. Her art, which includes photography, collage, sculpture and drawing, explores Identity, subjectivity and representation through the lens of embodiment and a visual language of shapes, objects and associations. Her most recognizable works - shadow-boxed photo-assemblages that interweave figurative imagery with natural and manufactured materials - are characterized by their divergent impulses toward formalism, the handmade, poetic metaphor and a contemporary examination of female experience. Critics note how these pieces treat photography as sculptural material to produce synthetic compositions, blurring boundaries between abstraction and figuration, as well as different media. Hyperallergic critic Seph Rodney observes, "[Hovsepian] depicts sections of the body in conversation with angular forms that ride a fine line between art object, design element and utilitarian tool. The work all has the subtle feel of high Modernist composition, but demonstrates greater self-awareness of the politics that surround and inhabit our bodies."

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 41.1
- **Momentum:** 3.6

## Sources
- [Sheree Hovsepian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheree_Hovsepian)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98601513)

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