HODA AFSHAR
HODA AFSHAR was born in Tehran, Iran (1983), and is now based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. She completed a Bachelor's degree in Fine Art– Photography in Tehran, and her Ph.D. thesis in Creative Arts at Curtin University. Hoda began her career as a documentary photographer in Iran in 2005, and since 2007 she has been living in Australia where she practices as a visual artist and also lectures in photography and fine art.
Through her art practice, Hoda explores the nature and possibilities of documentary image-making. Working across photography and moving-image, she considers the representation of gender, marginality, and displacement. In her work, she employs processes that disrupt traditional image-making practices, play with the presentation of imagery, or merge aspects of conceptual, staged, and documentary photography.
Hoda’s work has been widely exhibited both locally and internationally and published online and in print. In 2021, her first monograph Speak the Wind was published by MACK in London. Her work is also part of numerous private and public collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, National Gallery of Victoria, UQ Art Museum, Art Gallery of South Australia, MUMA Collection, Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery of Western Australia and more. Throughout her career, Hoda has been shortlisted for many prestigious art awards, and in 2015 she won Australia’s National Photographic Portrait Prize, in 2018 won Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Australia, and in 2021 she won the people’s choice award of the Ramsay Art Prize, Art Gallery of South Australia. She was also selected as one of the top eight young Australian artists to exhibit at Primavera 2018 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. Hoda is represented by Milani Gallery in Brisbane, Australia.
Tertiary Education
2019: PhD- Creative Arts, Curtin University of Technology, WA, Australia
2006: Bachelor of Fine Art (Photography) with First Class Honours- Azad University of Art and Architecture – Tehran, Iran
Additional Professional Education
2009: Fine Art Diploma (Photography/Sculpture), Meadowbank TAFE College, Sydney, Australia
2007: Photojournalism Essential, UTS (University of Technology), Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, Sydney, Australia
Employment History
2019_Present: Lecturer, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University
2013_2021: Lecturer, Photography Studies College, Melbourne, Australia
2011: Teaching Assistant/ Tutor: Concepts in Contemporary Art, Curtin University of Technology, WA, Australia
2010: Teaching Assistant/ Tutor: Historical Issues in Art and Design, Curtin University of Technology, WA, Australia
2007- 2010: Freelance Photographer, Sydney, Australia
2005- 2006: Photojournalist, Hamvatan Newspaper, Tehran, Iran
Associations
2021-2023: Recipient of the Sydney Myer Creative Fellowship
2020_2021: ACME Residency, artist in residence, London, UK
2020-2023: Gertrude Contemporary Studio Artist, Melbourne, Australia
2019- Present: Board member at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Solo Exhibitions
2022: Speak the Wind, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2022: Means Without Ends, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2022: Speak the Wind, Monash Gallery of Art & PHOTO 2022 Festival of Photography, Melbourne, Australia
2021: 'Agonistes', Commissioned for PHOTO 2021 Festival of Photography, Melbourne, Australia
2019: 'Remain', Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
2019: 'Remain', UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
2019: 'Remain', Mansions of the Future, Lincoln, UK
2019: 'Behold', Perth Centre for Contemporary Photography
2018: 'Behold', Mars Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2018: 'Behold, Horsham Regional Art Gallery in partnership with the Centre of Contemporary Photography, Horsham, Victoria
2017: 'Behold', Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
2017: ‘In the exodus, I love you more’, Wallflower Photomedia Gallery, Mildura Art Centre, Australia
2016: ‘In the exodus, I love you more’, curated with Pippa Milne, Brightspace Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2016: 'Fables of Change', curated by Alasdair Foster, 'Month of Photography in Minsk' an international festival of photography in Belarus
2014: 'Under Western Eyes', Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2013: 'In-Between Spaces', curated by Alasdair Foster, Krasnodar Institute of Contemporary Art, PhotoVisa International Festival of Photography, Krasnodar, Russia
2012: 'In-Between Spaces', Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2011: 'In-Between Spaces', Pingyao International Photography Festival, China
2010: 'In-Between Spaces', Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Group Exhibitions
Current: The National 4: Australian Art Now, curated by Jane Devery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Current: TarraWarra Biennial 2023: ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili, curated by Léuli Eshrāghi, Victoria, Australia
Current: Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, Sharjah
Current: 20th-century galleries, Art Gallery of NSW collection & Sydney Modern, Sydney
2022: Aichi Triennial 2022, curated by Mami Kataoka, Japan
2022: Our Islands, François Schneider Foundation’s Contemporary Art Centre, France
2022: ART AFTER DARK: REMAIN BY HODA AFSHAR, Bunji Place, Victoria, Australia
2022:Landskrona Foto, International Festival of Photography, curated by Monica Allende, Sweden
2022: When the Wind Blows, curated by Verena Kaspar-Eisert and Liddy Scheffknecht, KUNST HAUS WIEN MUSEUM, Vienna
2022: QUEER: STORIES FROM THE NGV COLLECTION, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2022: AN INVINCIBLE SUMMER, artistic directors:Tim Clark and Walter Guadagnini, Fotografia Europea Festival of Photography in Reggio Emilia, Italy
2022: Destiny Disrupted, curated by Nur Shkembi, Granville Centre Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2021_2022: WE CHANGE THE WORLD, Curated by Katharina Prugger, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2021: IN PROGRESS: Laia Abril - Hoda Afshar - Widline Cadet - Adama Jalloh - Alba Zari, Curated by Aaron Schuman, Bristol Photo Festival, UK
2021: Soul Fury, Bendigo Art Gallery, Curated by Nur Shkembi, Bendigo, Australia
2021: GETXOPHOTO Festival of Photography, curated by Jon Uriarte, Basque Country
2021: Ramsay Art Prize 2021, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
2021: TRUST at f/stop Festival of Photography, Curated by Susan Bright und Nina Strand, Leipzig, Germany
2021: 'REFRACTED REALITY', Curated by Anna Louise Richardson, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Australia
2020: Group exhibition with Santiago Sierra, Darren Siwes and James Tylor, GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide, Australia
2020: ‘Burning World’, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
2020: 'f_OCUS', a selection of works by women from the Moreland Art Collection, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2020: 'Interrogating the Borders Between Us' , The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
2020: 'Between the Sun and the Moon', Lahore Biennale (LB02), Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, Lahore, Pakistan
2019: 'CIVILIZATION: THE WAY WE LIVE NOW', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2019: 'REMEDY FOR RAGE', Women in Film and Photography, Objectifs, Singapore
2019: THE END/FUTURE OF HISTORY, Curated by Phuong Ngo, Presented with HYPHENATED PROJECTS as part of DUE WEST FESTIVAL, The Substation Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2019: 'The Shouting Valley', Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2019: Spring 1883-Sydney, guest artist, Sarah Scout Presents, Australia
2019: 'Eros', group exhibition, Foxjenssen Gallery, Sydney
2019: 'Beyond Place: Australian Contemporary Photography', Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego CA, USA
2019: 'National Anthem 2019', Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
2019: 'Eyes on Australia', part of ‘Eyes on Main Street’ international photography festival, curated by Lucy Stranger, North Carolina, USA
2019: 'In Her Words', Curated by Olivia Poloni, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
2019: A selection of Portraits from 'Remain' on the billboards of The SUBSTATION Gallery, presented by Hyphenated Projects, Melbourne, Australia
2019: 'Just not Australian', Artspace, Sydney
2018: 'PRIMAVERA 2018: Young Australian Artists', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2018: Curating ARTBAR November, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2018: The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, HOTA, Gold Coast, Australia
2018: William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia
2018: 'All We Can’t See: Illustrating the Nauru Files', Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2018: 'The Inner Apartment', Nishi Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2018: LEGACY+… collecting contemporary Hoda Afshar | Pat Brassington | David Rosetzky, curated by Anouska Phizacklea, Monash Gallery of Art (MGA), Melbourne
2018: 'Khalas', Curated by Phillip George & Nur Shkembi, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2018: The Art of Collecting, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
2018: 'Waqt al tagheer: Time of Change', curated by Abdul-Rahman Abdullah & Nur Shkembi, ACE Open, Adelaide, Australia
2017: 'Photography & Place' slideshow, curated by Wawi Navarroza, Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia
2017: William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia
2017: A Whole Different Animal, curated by Ros Winkler, Brightspace Gallery, Melbourne
2017: 'The Witching Hour', Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
2016: 'Instagram's #MyStoryAus exhibition, the voices of fifteen female storytellers in Australia, Melbourne
2016: Obscura Festival, ‘Belonging’, group exhibition of Australian photography, curated by Daniel Boetker-Smith, Penang, Malaysia
2016: Gaffa Photo Festival, ‘Victory’, curated by Christine McFetridge, Sydney, Australia
2016: Australian Photobook of the Year Awards, Photobook Melbourne, Boyd School Studios, Melbourne, Australia
2015: Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Open Finalist,Gold Coast Art Centre, Queensland, Australia
2015: Notional Photographic Portrait Prize, Canberra, Australia
2014: ‘Double Vision’, curated by Konrad Winkler, Brightspace Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2013: Group exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2013: Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, open finalist, Gold Coast Art Centre, Queensland, Australia
2013: 'Mirror Mirror', curated by Linsey Gosper, Colour Factory Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2012: 'Sub One Thousand', Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2012: Group exhibition, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2012: Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, finalist, Bridge Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2012: 'Alight', Melody Smith Gallery, Perth, Australia
2011: 'Images of Rapid Change', Tink Tank, Curtin University (co-curator/ coordinator, participant), WA, Australia
2010: 'Uncover', PCP (Perth Centre For Photography), Perth, Australia
2010: 'Staffroom Show', Moores Building, Fremantle, Western Australia
2008: 'The Carnival', Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2008: 'Greetings from Warburton': A group show of international and Aboriginal artists, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum in London, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of NSW, MUMA Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, UQ Art Museum, Murdoch University Art Collection, Deakin University Art Collection, Monash Gallery of Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Auckland University Art Collection, and numerous private art collections in Australia and outside including; Singapore, Paris, NYC, Berlin, Italy, NZ and Iran.
Writings/Publications
2021: Speak the Wind, MACK Publishing, London
2020: Penumbra, part of 'Bleak House' project, Curated by Brad Feuerhelm, published by Void.
2020: Just Images, commissioned essay for View Finding, MGA's 30th-anniversary catalogue celebrating photography, published by Monash Gallery of Art
2019: Beyond Human: A Conversation Between Hoda Afshar and Behrouz Boochani, commissioned essay, UN Magazine 13.1: 'We Got 'im'
2019: Guest artist for Overland Magazine, Issue 234
2018: Impossible Return by Hoda Afshar, Waqt al-tagheer: Time of Change, catalogue essay, published by ACE Open, Adelaide, Australia
2017: Visibility and Veiling by Hoda Afshar, Seen and Unseen: The Visual Culture of Imperialism, edited book by Sanaz Fotouhi and Esmail Zeini, published by Brill, Netherlands
2017: Reading the Arrival of Demons by Hoda Afshar, dɪˈvan | A Journal of Accounts, Issue #2, published by DIVAN JOURNAL and UNSW Art & Design, Sydney, Australia: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/about-us/divan-journal
2016: In the Exodus, I love you more: A conversation between Nikos Papastergiadis and Hoda Afshar, Exhibition Catalogue
2016: Max Pinckers – the world as stage of appearances by Hoda Afshar, Der Greif Artist Blog- Organization for Contemporary Photography, Augsburg, Germany: https://dergreif-online.de/artist-blog/max-pinckers-the-world-as-stage-of-appearances/
2016: Broken Reflections / images of Iranian martyrs by Hoda Afshar, Der Greif Artist Blog- Organization for Contemporary Photography, Augsburg, Germany: https://dergreif-online.de/artist-blog/broken-reflections-images-of-iranian-martyrs/
2016: “Close-up”. Abbas Kiarostami by Hoda Afshar, Der Greif Artist Blog- Organization for Contemporary Photography, Augsburg, Germany: https://dergreif-online.de/artist-blog/close-up-abbas-kiarostami/
2016: The Image as Evidence by Hoda Afshar, Der Greif Artist Blog- Organization for Contemporary Photography, Augsburg, Germany: https://dergreif-online.de/artist-blog/the-image-as-evidence/
2016: In the exodus, I love you more, Adventure Handbook online magazine, Australia http://theadventurehandbook.com/in-the-exodus-i-love-you-more/
Competition Judging
2018: National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2017: CCP Salon Photography Prize, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
2017: Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women, Melbourne, Australia
2015: United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Award, Photojournalism and Online categories, Australia
2015: Newcastle Photographic Portrait Prize, Australia
Workshops
2022: On Making and Unmaking the World Through Images, Photoworks Masterclass, UK
2019: Teach Yourself Exile, in collaboration with Adam Broomberg at Made Labs, Sicily, Italy
2019: The Image as Poem, in collaboration with the poet and artist Daniele Pantano, Mansions of the Future, Lincoln, UK
2018: The Image as Evidence, Masterclass at Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
2018: New Documentary Photography, Masterclass at Horsham Gallery, Victoria, Australia
2017: New Documentary Form: the image as evidence, Masterclass at Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Awards and Grants
2021: Recipient of the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships for outstanding talent and exceptional courage
2021: Ramsay Art Prize 2021, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, People's Choice Award, Winner
2020: ACME Residency in London, Australian Council for the Arts
2019: Career Development Grant, Australian Council for the Arts
2019: Prix Prictet, The global award in photography and sustainability, Nominee
2019: Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Finalist
208: William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Sotheby's Australia People's Choice Award, Winner
2018: The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Finalist
208: William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Winner
2018: Shortlisted for Young Artist Award, Melbourne Art Foundation
2017: William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Finalist
2017: Foam Paul Huf Award, Nominee
2016: The Pool Grant, Finalist
2016: Australian Photobook of the Year Awards, Finalist
2015: Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Finalist
2015: Notional Photographic Portrait Prize, Winner
2013: Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Finalist
2012: Moran Contemporary Photographic Prizes, Finalist
2011: Australian Postgraduate Award, Office of Research and Development/ Curtin University of Technology
2011: Artflight grant, Department of Culture and the Arts, WA, Australia
2006: Winner of a prize and acknowledgment from the Third Kaveh Golestan Documentary Photography Award, Tehran, Iran
2006: Winner of ‘World Press Photo’ Educational Training Programme Contest, Tehran, Iran
Presentations
2022: POLITICALLY ENGAGED: ART & WAR-PERSPECTIVES ON PICASSO, hosted by Laurie Benson (Curator, International Art NGV), speaker: Hoda Afshar, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
2022: Hoda Afshar in conversation with Shoair Mavlian, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2021: Hoda Afshar in conversation with Brett Rogers, The Photographer's Gallery, London
2021: MACK Live, Hoda Afshar in conversation with Taous Dahmani; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIxq-eJTPm8
2021: In conversation with Nur Shkembi, Form x Content, Presented by Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA
2021: Keynote Speech, PHOTO IDEAS, PHOTO 2021 International Festival of Photography, Melbourne
2020: Speaker at Art Forum, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts
2020: Adam Broomberg & Hoda Afshar, PHOTO Live https://photo.org.au/journal/photo-live-hoda-afshar-adam-broomberg/
2019: In conversation with Murdoch Stephens & Behrouz Boochani, City Gallery Wellington in association with Eavesdropping, NZ
2019: Acoustic Leaks: An Event Series for The Shouting Valley: Floor talk with Hoda Afshar & Behrouz Boochani, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2019: Sir John Monash Lecture 2019: Panel Discussion with Hoda Afshar, Kon Karapanagiotidis, Arnold Zable, Monash Gallery of Art
2019: Panel: Art, Politics and Agency, in conversation with Archie Barry, Hoang Tran Nguyen and Steven Rhall, chaired by Andy Butler, Buxton Contemporary
2019: Water: Interdisciplinary public forum, Hoda Afshar in conversation with Dr Claire Loughnan | Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2019: Perspectives: Hoda Afshar, Unmaking Images: Image-making and representation, ACE Open, Guildhouse and The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, University of South Australia, Adelaide
2019: Vault Magazine issue 25 launch at ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art); Contemporary Art in the Political Present: in conversation with Angela Tiatia, Hoda Afshar and Dr Danny Butt
2019: Presenter (in conversation with Behrouz Boochani) at Newkind 2019_an annual conference on social justice and sustainability in Hobart, Tasmania
2018: In conversation with Behrouz Boochani, Fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, Melbourne
2018: 'Art, Identity and the Everyday Business of Changing the World', panel discussion, UNSW Art & Design Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2018: 'Waqt al-tagheer: Time of Change', panel discussion, ACE Open, Adelaide, Australia
2017: La Colonie (Sud), Kader Attia – Roundtable Symposium, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2016: 'To Tell a Story', National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2015: 'Imagining Iran: Contemporary Iranian image-makers', Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
2015: 'Collecting Photography', Photobook Melbourne Festival, Photography Studies College, Melbourne Australia
2014: ‘The Image Makers Seminar: Iran Bazaar’, Photography Studies College, Melbourne, Australia
2013: 'Veiling: A Site of Resistance or an Exotic Commodity', Ballarat International Foto Biennale Symposium: "Contesting Identities, Narratives and the Self", Ballarat, Australia
2010: Images of Rapid Change', The Bureau of Ideas: “Art and the Aesthetics of Protest”, The Bakery (Artrage), WA, Australia
Reviews/ Interviews/ Features
2023:Featured on OCULA Magazine: Hoda Afshar's Fragments of Reality - In Conversation with Susan Acret: https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/hoda-afshar/
2022: Review of Speak the Wind in The Brooklyn Rail by Maymanah Farhat; https://brooklynrail.org/2022/02/art_books/Hoda-Afshars-Speak-The-Wind
2021: Featured article in Art Guide: 'Hoda Afshar creates portraits of our time' by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen; https://artguide.com.au/hoda-afshar-creates-portraits-of-our-time/
2021: Speak the Wind reviewed by Jorg Colberg on Conscientious Photography Magazine;
2021: Speak the Wind reviewed in the Autumn 2021 issue of ArtReview Asia by Neha Kale;
https://artreview.com/photographer-hoda-afshar-documents-the-mystery-and-malice-of-the-wind/
2021: Speak the Wind, book review by Taous R.Dahmani for 1000 Words Magazine;
2021:MICHAEL GRIEVE on SPEAK THE WIND for the British Journal of Photography
2021: Featured in The Age: Hoda Afshar has won the 2021 Ramsay Art Award’s people’s choice prize;
2021: Featured in ABC News, Hoda Afshar documents Australian government whistleblowers in new photography and film project: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-06/hoda-afshar-documents-australian-government-whistleblowers-photo/13210836
2021: Interview with Namila Benson onThe Art Show, ABC Radio National: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-art-show/hoda-afshar-clarice-beckett/13184728
2021: 'Agonistes' featured in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/feb/10/from-behrouz-boochani-to-bernard-collaery-photographer-hoda-afshar-turns-her-lens-on-whistleblowers
2020: 'Agonistes' featured in Trigger#2:Uncertainty, Guest edited by Max Pinckers & Michiel de Cleene, Essay by Wim Vandekerckhove https://fomu.be/trigger/articles/trigger-2-uncertainty-is-out-1
2020: Nearest Truth, Ep. 47. Hoda Afshar & Hannah Darabi & Brad Feuerhelm https://nearesttruth.com/episodes/ep-47-a-conversation-with-hoda-afshar-hannah-darabi/
2020:In conversation with Megan Robson for Artist Voice, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2020: Featured in NGV Magazine, Artist Profile, Issue 22 May-June
2020: Included on Collecteurs's Substance 100 list of the top artists and activists contributing to global change https://www.collecteurs.com/interview/substance-100
2020: Featured on Ocula Magazine, Lahore Biennale 02: Past Reminders, Possible Futures by Qalandar Memon: https://ocula.com/magazine/reports/second-lahore-biennale-pakistan/?fbclid=IwAR2zeOjWe4BSkg--WOhS1Sgkwx5GM9WNxDQWeg7YnCrk4J9BjGhivDqDPzU
2020:Featured in Collecteurs, A Conversation Between Hoda Afshar and Behrouz Boochani; https://www.collecteurs.com/interview/a-conversation-between-hoda-afshar-and-behrouz-boochani
2019: Interview, Photoworks UK, #4 Staged: https://photoworks.org.uk/4-staged-hoda-afshar/
2019: Remain featured on Firecracker: https://www.fire-cracker.org/2019/08/hoda-afshar/
2019: Featured on the cover and inside of The Monthly Magazine, July 2019, commissioned photoshoot
2019: Bronwyn Watson, review of 'Remain' at UQ Art Museum Subverting the idyllic with tales of desperation, The Australian;
2019: Colin Pantall, Hoda Afshar, the individual, and their story, World Press Photo;
2019: PHMuseum, Featured as one of the 12 Women Photographers to Watch in 2019; https://phmuseum.com/news/12-women-photographers-to-watch-in-2019
2019: Karen Green, 'Pictures of A Thousand Silences', Curtin University; https://news.curtin.edu.au/stories/pictures-of-a-thousand-silences/
2019: In conversation with Omar Sakr, Liminal Magazine #86; https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/hoda-afshar
2019: 'Untold Stories', an essay by Tai Mitsuki on 'Remain', featured in Vault Magazine, Issue 25
2018: Essay by Andy Butler on 'Remain' featured in Artguide Australia, Issue 117
2018: Interview/feature on AJ+, news and current events channel by Al Jazeera
2018: Essay by Naomi Cass on 'Remain', Primavera 2018 catalogue
2018: Primavera 2018 reviewed in Art Almanac by Eleanor Zeichner: https://www.art-almanac.com.au/primavera/
2018: Primavera 2018 reviewed by Andy Butler in The Monthly: https://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/andy-butler/2018/20/2018/1545269407/primavera-2018-young-australian-artists-mca
2018: Interview/Article on The Guardian, From Manus Island to Sanctions on Iran: the art and opinions of Hoda Afshar; https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/nov/13/from-manus-island-to-sanctions-on-iran-the-art-and-opinions-of-hoda-afshar?CMP=soc_568&fbclid=IwAR18rmsPixyxsn79DN0ze5s7TVytBiZmlpAgH0_yDDBEzKtPEcIr6VIi868
2018: Artist Profile, The Saturday Paper, Hoda Afshar's Lens on Manus; https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2018/11/10/hoda-afshars-lens-manus/15417684007107?fbclid=IwAR3AEkbvSwSFcgPUaonyclHhDpwpm-BFmMIGKFS_K47QyHWuXwtG364WM0I
2018: Featured on 'Cordite', a Journal of Literature, Art & Poetry: http://cordite.org.au/artworks/hoda-afshar/
2018: Interview on 3RRR Radio_SmartArts with Richard Watts
2018: Interview on ABC Radio National_The Hub on Art with Eddie Ayres, http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-hub-on-art/enough-khalas/9788564
2018: Interview & Feature, ABC News, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-04/australian-cricket-ball-tampering-scandal-inspires-artwork/9724970
2018: "Khalas' exhibition at UNSW Galleries, interview, SBS World News, https://www.sbs.com.au/news/australian-muslim-artists-say-enough
2018: 'Behold' series featured in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/mar/28/the-hidden-lives-of-gay-men-in-the-middle-east-in-pictures?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Gmail
2018: Waqt al-tagheer: Time of Change reviewed by Cher Tan on Conversations-Runway: http://conversations.runway.org.au/conversations/time-communal-sovereignty/
2018: Waqt al-tagheer: Time of change by collective 'eleven' featured in Artforum as a Critics Pick, reviewed by Eugenio Viola: https://www.artforum.com/picks/time-change-74753
2018: Waqt al-tagheer reviewed on Adelaide Review, by John Neylon, https://www.adelaidereview.com.au/festivals/adelaide-festival/ace-open-welcomes-patterns-change-waqt-al-tagheer/
2018: Review & feature, The Conversation, by Christine Judith Nicholls, https://theconversation.com/waqt-al-tagheer-time-of-change-explores-the-diversity-of-muslim-australian-identities-91916
2018: Interview & feature, Broadsheet Adelaide, by by Daniela Frangos, https://www.broadsheet.com.au/adelaide/art-and-design/article/time-change
2017: Published in Splash & Grab magazine, words by Clare Hewitt, Issue #4, London
2017: Featured in British Journal of Photography, interview/words by Daniel Boetker-Smith, Invisible World, Issue 7863, London
2017: Featured in Fisheye Photobook, Vol.1, Published by Be Contents, France
2017: Feature and Interview, Where About Now, online magazine of art and culture, http://www.whereaboutnow.com/03_inTheExodus.html
2017: Featured on Aint-Bad magazine of photography, USA: https://www.aint-bad.com/article/2017/02/21/hoda-afshar/
2017: Interview by Guille Lasarte, PANTA: magazine of creative culture & activism, Issue 10, Berlin, Germany
2017: Featured on GUP magazine, Netherlands: http://www.gupmagazine.com/portfolios/hoda-afshar/in-the-exodus-i-love-you-more
2016: Featured on THISISPAPER online journal of design and photography, Poland: http://thisispaper.com/hoda-afshar-in-the-exodus-i-love-you-more-2/
2016: Featured on Der Greif- Organization for Contemporary Photography, Augsburg, Germany: https://dergreif-online.de/artist-feature/hoda-afshar/
2016: Featured and reviewed by Marina Trancosoon on Impressa Magazine: photography made by women, Berlin: http://www.impressamag.com/in-the-exodus-i-love-your-more-hoda-afshar/
2016: Interview and feature on Fisheye online journal of photography, France https://www.fisheyemagazine.fr/2016/09/25/dans-la-semaine-de-fisheye-du-19-au-25-septembre/
2016: Featured on iGNANT online journal of art and photography, Berlin http://www.ignant.de/2016/09/05/in-the-exodus-i-love-you-more-by-hoda-afshar/
2016: Featured on Adventure Handbook online magazine, Australia http://theadventurehandbook.com/in-the-exodus-i-love-you-more/
2016: Der Greif Magazine, Issue #9, Germany
2016: Common Ground Journal, Interview by Anita Tota, Issue 5, Home Sweet Home, http://www.commongroundjournal.com/issues/#/issue-five/
2015: Clans, a publication by Fields Magazine, Berlin, Germany
2014: Interview/Review Written by Alison Stieven-Taylor, ‘Hoda Afshar/Under Western Eyes’, L’Oeil de la Photographie Magazine, http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/2014/04/28/exhibition/24760/hoda-afshar-under-western-eyes
2014: Dr. Marcus Bunyan, Review: ‘Hoda Afshar/ Under Western Eyes’ at Edmund Pearce Gallery, Art Blart,
2013: Alasdair Foster, "IN SEARCH OF PARADISE", Featured Artist, Cultural Development Consulting, http://culturaldevelopmentconsulting.com/2013/04/30/7992/
2013: Emil Canita interviews Hoda Afshar, Lucida Queensland Centre for Photography's online journal, http://lucidamagazine.com/?p=1785
2012: BETA - Developments in Photography Online Journal, Issue 02, http://beta.org.au/
2012: 'The Carnival', Light Journeys Gallery: exhibiting women photographers of Australia
2012: Maya Rose Chauhan interviews Hoda Afshar, Grok Magazine, Issue #4
2011: Simon Cox, "Notes on the 'Alight' Exhibition", Catalogue essay, Melody Smith Gallery, Perth, Australia, http://melodysmithgallery.com/Portals/2/docs/Alight%20Catalogue%20200412%20(3).pdf
2011: Darren Jorgensen, "Diverse Art of Identity", The West Australian, Saturday 14th April