AIDA MAHMUDOVA
b. 1982, AzerbaijanBorn in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1982, Aida Mahmudova lives and works in Baku. Mahmudova has exhibited widely, and will be showing seascapes at the 56th Venice Biennale as part of the VITA VITALE group exhibition curated by Artwise.
Her sculptural installations and paintings have been shown at exhibitions internationally including: Here Today at the Old Sorting Office in London; Love Me, Love Me Not at the 55th Venice Biennale; Fly To Baku, London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Rome; and Merging Bridges at the Museum of Modern Art, Baku, Azerbaijan. The artist’s work is held in private collections globally and her sculpture Recycled is on public display on Baku Boulevard. Mahmudova is the Founder and Creative Director of YARAT, which was founded with a group of artists in 2011. YARAT is dedicated to nurturing an understanding of contemporary art in Azerbaijan and to creating a platform for Azerbaijani art, both nationally and internationally, and has commissioned The Union of Fire and Water project at the 56th Venice Biennale.
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