Shiva Shahmir

Artist, Sound Engineer, Educator, Community Technologist and Organizer. President of Spread Art, Detroit Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia and Master of Professional Studies in Arts and Cultural Management from Pratt Institute [phone]-916-604-313 Multidisciplinary & Freeform

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Year of the Snake

Charcoal, acrylic, and gloss medium on paper.

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Quick cover of I’m So Tired by Fugazi on my Wurli 140b.

Shot, recorded, and edited on my IPhone 13 mini for the sake of spontaneous creation.

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Summer 2023 on Hornby Island. Tumeric anthotype printing with Canadian artist Tom Burrows artifacts found around his studio.

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Made this film collage around Trumps election in 2016 called Orange State

Impromptu sound collage and loop I performed at home to my deaf dog Borzi April 2024 called Don’t Bend The Circle (live MS recording on a h2n zoom)

Licensed video clips from Pond edited along with sounds by Shiva Shahmir

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Onion Flowers - 2nd Perspective (2023) - Intertwined reflections of the natural world inside a constructed environment built of organic materials.Gesso, acrylic, pastel on drop cloth.

Never been good at drawing in proper perspective.

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Inter-Sections - acrylic and charcoal on prepared drop cloth by Shiva Shahmir

January 2020

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Her body is in her own hands, spelling - Woman, Life, Freedom.

Drawn and screen-printed by Shiva Shahmir in Detroit, Michigan

#FreeIran

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Tom Burrows and Gina Tessaro at work in his studio on Hornby August, 2022. ❤️ Thank you for involving me on some of the steps! Expired 35mm film (at Hornby Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiEFixoLxNyaGnW4J1QH1HYhM7dDae5MptRu4M0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Onion Flowers

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Deep Brain Stimulation by Shiva Shahmir, 2021

Watercolor, Oil Pastel, and Acrylic on Drop Cloth Canvas

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Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway - Mother Theresa (2020-2021 installation) (at Spread Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ3n5ucD4hByzOA7qolFQWz9297o_WNlSmMQKw0/?igshid=qac7y5ziebk6

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Choppy Waters

Acrylic and charcoal

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36mm shots July and August 2020 by Shiva Shahmir

No filters, just film 🎞

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Is it? (📸Shiva Shahmir - July 2020)

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TFW your partner gifts you an iPad to draw on for your birthday. 💕 sometimes we can has nice things

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Hope and the future are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps. - Thoreau

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Black Lives Matter

Detroit Will Breathe

2020

35mm shots by Shiva Shahmir