Shoja Azari is born visual artist/filmmaker based in New York City. Since 1995, Shoja has produced, written and directed four feature films, numerous shorts and video installations as well as working with painting and photography to create striking and culturally referenced works. In 1998, Shoja met the renowned visual artist Shirin Neshat and together they started a close collaboration that began with Turbulent, a double-screen film installation directed by Shirin Neshat and preformed by Shoja Azari and Sussan Deyhim, which won the Golden Lion, the top prize of the prestigious Venice Art Biennale in1998.
