Spanning more than five decades, the work of Sudi Sharafshahi moves fluidly between painting, sculpture, drawing, and photography. Trained at Tehran University, The Royal Academy of The Hague, and later at New York University, Pratt, and the School of Visual Arts, she has built a body of work shaped by two cultural worlds and a lifetime of careful, deliberate observation.

Her paintings draw on Persian visual tradition, modernist composition, and a rich personal symbolism - figures, hands, birds, keys, calligraphy, and domestic objects recur as a private language. Each series turns the lens in a different direction: the quiet psychological space of Between Inner & Outer World; the architectural, narrative reliefs of the Sculpture Series; the candid humanity of the New York Subway Series; the layered photographic still-lifes; the political urgency of the Emotional and Human Rights Series; and the ornamental, historically rooted compositions of the Persian Series.

Sudi has exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, and biennials across Europe, Iran, Japan, South America, and the United States. Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Modern Art Museum of The Hague and has been recognized with awards including the Medal of Honor of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, the Paul Revere Award for Graphics Excellence, and two International Creativity Awards from Art Direction magazine.

This site presents a selection of her work organized by series. For inquiries about specific pieces, exhibitions, commissions, or press, please visit the Contact page.