Carina Shoshtary’s jewelry can be characterized as emotional, imaginative and innovative. Shoshtary describes herself as a kind of modern hunter- gatherer as she finds the materials for her artworks in her immediate surroundings. Her choice of materials is often unusual: colorful graffiti from heavily sprayed walls, old bobbin laces found in a cellar, the plastic nets of shower sponges. All her materials have had a previous life, a former use and meaning. With scientific curiosity and sensitive intuition, Shoshtary reveals the potential of these materials.
In Vogue Italia, Paola Aurucci, responds to Shoshtary’s propensity for narrative ‘They are alien jewels in a world that is somewhere between the real and the imaginary, able to make us reflect on the strange journey objects take, inanimate objects with a lot of sentimental value, able to tell us a story, bring up emotions and especially able to unlock memories.‘
Sienna Patti for the solo show In The Beginning There Was Red in Sienna Gallery
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EDUCATION
2006-2012 Academy of Fine Arts Munich (DE): Jewellery Department, Prof. Otto Künzli, Master Student
2001-2004 State College for Glass and Jewellery, Neugablonz (DE): Apprenticeship- Goldsmith
SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Arnoldsche Weekend Art Gallery | with Pálma Babos, Arnoldsche Publishers, Stuttgart (DE)
2023 Something Old, Something New | with Märta Mattsson, Sienna Gallery, Lenox (US)
2019 Contained Worlds | Presented by the Juliane Noack Foundation, Radierverein, Munich (DE)
Karma Chroma | Bini Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
2018 Point of Equilibrium | with Attai Chen, Galerie Ra (NL)
Morphogenesis | with Attai Chen, La Joaillerie par Mazlo, Paris (FR)
Echoes of Order | with Attai Chen, Atta Gallery, Bangkok (TH)
Micromania | with Attai Chen, Froots & Nogart, Shanghai (CN)
2017
In The Beginning There Was Red | Sienna Gallery, Lenox (US)
2015
Microphilia | with Annamaria Leiste, Studio Gierke-Berr, Munich (DE)
2014
“I-Land” Mini Exhibition | Atta Gallery, Bangkok (TH)
Where Blue Hides after Dark | Sienna Gallery, Lenox (US)
AWARDS/ SCHOLARSHIPS
2020
Förderpreise der Landeshauptstadt München | Munich (DE)
2017
La Monachia– design of a jewellery piece for the Munich economy prize for women, Munich (DE)
Project Grant for Fine Arts, Munich (DE)
Artist in Residence at Konstepidemien, Gothenburg (SE)
Art Jewelry Forum Artist Award (Finalist) | AJF, Mill Valley (US)
2016
Exhibition scholarship | Förderverein zum Aufbau einer Juliane Noack Künstlerförderung, Halle (DE)
Art Jewelry Forum Artist Award (Finalist) | AJF, Mill Valley (US)
2012
Bavarian State Prize for Emerging Designers | Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Infrastruktur, Verkehr und Technologie, Munich (DE)
Oberbayerischer Förderpreis für Angewandte Kunst 2012, Munich (DE)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland (NZ)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (US)
Museum of Arts and Design as part of the Porter-Price Collection, New York (US)
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (CA)
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston (US)
Victoria and Albert Museum, London (GB)
The Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg (SE)
Rotasa Foundation, Mill Valley, CA (US)
The International Design Museum Munich (DE)