

Speak the Wind's story on CNN Style, by Adam Pourahmadi
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/22/style/strait-of-hormuz-island-portrait-hoda-afshar


Code Black/Riot reviewed - The Guardian
Among the biennale’s most powerful works is a collaborative project by Kurdish Iranian journalist and author Behrouz Boochani, Iranian Australian artist Hoda Afshar and Kuku Yalandji/Waanji/Yidinji/Gugu Yimithirr artist Vernon Ah Kee, focusing on the experiences of Indigenous youth in detention. At Campbelltown Arts Centre, a darkened gallery space is devoted to the four-channel video installation Code Black/Riot, featuring the testimonials of former staff members and child i


New project Code Black/Riot launches at the 25th Biennale of Sydney, curated by Hoor Al Qasimi
Exploring the intersection of art and advocacy, ‘Code Black/Riot’ is a seminal collaboration between visual artists Hoda Afshar and Vernon Ah Kee, and writer Behrouz Boochani. The project – supported by First Nations advocacy organisation Change the Record and developed through a series of community visits, relational dialogue and time on Country – shines a spotlight on the crisis of mass incarceration of First Nations young people in Australia. https://www.biennaleofsydney.a


Solo Exhibition at La Casa Encendida in Madrid, 27 jan - 26 apr 2026
https://www.lacasaencendida.es/en/exhibitions/the-fold-hoda-afshar-english


Art Africa - Interview on Performing the Invisible at the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
https://artafricamagazine.org/performing-the-invisible-hoda-afshar-at-the-musee-du-quai-branly-jacques-chirac/


My newest book, The Fold, published by Loose Joints Publishing, is officially launched now.
Through critical reappropriation, Afshar reclaims a colonial photographic legacy fixated on the veiled woman. The Fold is a critical...


HODA AFSHAR: Performer l'invisible opening at the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris, 30 Sep 2025 - 25 January 2026
First monographic exhibition of the artist in France, Hoda Afshar. Performer the invisible unveils his unpublished installation The Fold,...


Won the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2025
I received a call from the National Portrait Gallery informing me that I had won this year’s National Portrait Prize on the morning of my...


The Fold, my new book, to be published soon by Loose Joints, France
he Fold is a critical visual and psychological investigation into the enduring legacy of Orientalist and colonialist photographic...


A selection from In Turn is now in the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation collection
https://www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org/en/collect/artists/hoda-afshar.php