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Siah Armajani (Siavash Armajani) was born on 10 July, 1939 in Lahijan, Imperial State of Iran, is an American artist (1939–2020). Discover Siah Armajani's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

Popular As Siavash Armajani
Occupation N/A
Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 10 July, 1939
Birthday 10 July
Birthplace Lahijan, Imperial State of Iran
Date of death 27 August, 2020
Died Place Minneapolis, United States
Nationality Iran

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1939

Siavash "Siah" Armajani (10 July 1939 – 27 August 2020) was an Iranian-born American sculptor and architect known for his public art.

Siavash Armajani was born into a wealthy, educated family of textile merchants in 1939 in Tehran, Iran.

He attended a Presbyterian missionary school.

He thought that his grandmother was the influence that started his political activism.

1950

He began his art career making small collages in the late 1950s, visually mirroring Persian miniatures and political posters, to spread his vision of democracy and secularism and to publicize his party the National Front.

1958

In his Shirt (1958), Armajani uses pencil and ink to completely cover his father's shirt in Persian script.

1960

After the monarch Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi came to power, in order to protect him, his family ordered him overseas in 1960.

Armajani immigrated to the United States, where his uncle, Yahya Armajani, was chair of the history department at Macalester College.

There he studied art and philosophy, making Saint Paul, Minnesota, his permanent home.

Always interested in computing and engineering, during the late 1960s he took classes at Control Data Institute in Minneapolis, where he learned Fortran.

1962

The Walker Art Center was the first to acquire Armajani's work, after he entered two works into their biennial in 1962.

They purchased Prayer, an intricately lettered 70 in canvas covered in Farsi poetry.

1966

He met his wife at Macalester and he and Barbara Bauer married in 1966.

1967

He became an American citizen in 1967.

1968

Armajani taught at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design from 1968 until 1979, where he met Barry Le Va, who introduced him to Conceptual art then practiced in New York City.

In 1968, he built First Bridge in White Bear Lake, Minnesota as 10 ft narrowing to 4 ft, illustrating our perspective vision.

He built Fibonacci Discovery Bridge (1968–1988) to follow the mathematical Fibonacci sequence and, for the Walker's outdoor show 9 Artists/9 Spaces, he built Bridge Over Tree (1970), a 91 ft long walkway with stairs that rise and fall over an evergreen tree.

1969

He participated in Art by Telephone at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in 1969.

1970

In 1970, Armajani contributed two works to the Museum of Modern Art exhibition Information: first, A Number Between Zero and One, a 9 ft high column filled with computer printouts of individual decimal numbers; and second, North Dakota Tower, a proposed spire 18 mi high and 2 mi wide calculated to cast a narrow shadow over the entire length of North Dakota from east to west.

1974

In 1974–75, he built more than 1,000 cardboard and balsa wood models of components of American vernacular architecture titled Dictionary for Building.

1980

The Minneapolis Institute of Art holds several works: Skyway No.2 (1980), a 5 ft mahogany and brass portal; Mississippi Delta (2005-2006), a colored pencil on Mylar triptych picturing the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; and An Exile Dreaming of Saint Adorno (2009), a cage-like inhabited tiny house or stage named for Theodor W. Adorno.

Armajani was the subject of more than 50 solo exhibitions, and his works featured in dozens of major exhibitions in the US and Europe.

1988

In 1988, he designed the Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge in Minneapolis, uniting two neighborhoods previously separated by 16 lanes of streets and highway.

Armajani expresses three basic types of bridge construction: beam (the walkway), arch (eastern side), and suspension (western side).

He commissioned a poem by John Ashbery that is stamped into the bridge's upper beams.

1993

And in 1993, he built on one side in Loring Park, the pavilion Gazebo for Four Anarchists: Mary Nardini, Irma Sanchini, William James Sidis, Carlo Valdinoci.

1996

Siah Armajani designed the Olympic Torch presiding over the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, but later disowned the project because the Olympic Committee failed to uphold their contract.

He worked on other projects such as the Round Gazebo in Nice, France, the Sacco and Vanzetti Reading Room at the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, and projects in Münster, Germany; Battery Park City, New York; at Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York; and at the North Shore Esplanade at the St. George's Staten Island Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, New York.

In his later years, Armajani returned to his politically active roots.

2005

His 2005 work, Fallujah, is a modern take on Picasso's Guernica but was censored in the U.S. due to its critical view of the war in Iraq.

It was recently on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Seven Rooms of Hospitality is based on a conversation between Jacques Derrida and Anne Dufourmantelle.

2010

In 2010, he won a Knight Fellow award granted by United States Artists.

2011

An exhibition at Muelensteen Gallery in 2011 presented a dozen of Armajani's early pieces made between 1957 and 1962, created in the years leading up to his arrival in America.

Many employ ink or watercolor on cloth or paper, and incorporate text.

In 2011, he was awarded Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government and received a distinguished artist award from the McKnight Foundation.

2017

Room for Deportees (2017) speaks out to the hard line, anti-immigrant policies that took over in the US and Europe.

2018

Siah Armajani: Follow This Line, the first comprehensive US retrospective dedicated to the artist, was on view at the Walker Art Center September 9 through December 30, 2018, and at the Met Breuer February 20 through June 2, 2019.

2020

Armajani died of heart failure in Minneapolis on August 27, 2020, at age 81.