Aziza SHADENOVA
Aziza Shadenova is a Kazakh artist born in Uzbekistan. Her work is mostly based around humour and absurdism involved in the perception of life, memories, womanhood and immigration, often untangling her roots and thoughts as an immigrant, a woman, a wife, an artist and a human being. For her, these are observations and engagements with the past and present and an investigation of how it may reflect on the future, challenging her to see beyond history and capture what has been left in the present.
Shadenova graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2011. She was featured in the Central Asian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013) and has participated in group shows at HOME gallery, Manchester (2017); EMMA Espoo Museum of Fine Arts, Finland (2016); Art15 art fair, London (2015); Sotheby’s (2014); Moscow Biennale (2014); and other exhibitions in Russia, France, Switzerland, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Kazakhstan, Argentina and the UK.