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Sholeh Asgary (b.Iran 1982) is an artist engaging in performance, interdisciplinary forms, and collective processes. Situating the body as a site of knowledge, her practice concerns how we understand our sonic relationships and the translocal and transtemporal conditions that shape them. She approaches sound as an inherently political medium full of oceanic possibilities that are at once intersectional, fluid, and dissonant. From this positionality lies an inherent tension throughout her work: between visibility and opacity, history and myth, worldmaking and death--none in opposition to the other. The resulting artworks implicate the viewer in future mythological excavations, bridging vast spans of time and history through water, movement, light, imaging, sound, and voice.

Asgary is featured in Art in America’s 2022 “New Talent Issue,” the Getty Foundation’s 2024-25 Pacific Standard Time Atmosphere of Sound exhibition, and the Bay Area Now 9 triennial at YBCA (2023-24). A 2023 Artadia Finalist, she is the recipient of a 2021 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, a 2019 Kenneth Rainin Foundation New Program Grant as a composer for Dance Elixir, a 2020 California Arts Council Grant for MAJLES, a 2022 Center for Cultural Innovation grant, among others. Asgary’s practice is supported by numerous residencies, including Headlands Center for the Arts, MASS MoCA, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Culture Hub, Berkeley Art Center, and ARoS Kunstmuseum. Her work has been presented by such institutions as the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Minnesota Street Project, / slash art, Sotheby's Institute of Art, Stanford University, and The Lab. Asgary is a UCLA Art|Sci Collective member and serves on the Curatorial Council for Southern Exposure. Asgary is a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and California College of the Arts. She holds an MFA from Mills College and BA from San Francisco State University.