Toba Khedoori

Toba Khedoori (born 1964) is an Australian-born artist of Iraqi heritage, known primarily for highly-detailed mixed-media paintings executed on large sheets of wax-coated paper. Khedoori's works often fill the spectator's entire field of vision; a 'typical' Khedoori painting combines elements of drawing, painting, and art installation. Some of Khedoori's best-known paintings feature architectural renderings surrounded by a vast expanse of white or blank space. In recent years, Khedoori has incorporated natural imagery and landscape into her work.

Khedoori was born in Sydney and raised in Australia, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She is the identical twin sister of artist Rachel Khedoori, and the sister-in-law of the late artist Jason Rhoades.

Khedoori began exhibiting in 1993, and was shown early in her career at the Whitney Biennial exhibition. [http://www.businessweek.com/1996/53/b350878.htm] Khedoori has since had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in the St. Louis Art Museum, the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C., among others. Khedoori's work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Khedoori was awarded a $500,000 Macarthur Prize in 2002, to be paid over five years. [http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1038727/apps/s/content.asp?ct=1550399] She is shown by art dealer David Zwirner in New York [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_3_91/ai_98541223] and by Regen Projects in Los Angeles. [http://www.regenprojects.com/popup_main.php?mode=artists&object_id=7]