Shoja Azari (Persian: شجاع آذری) is an Iranian-born visual artist and filmmaker based in New York City.

In 1997, he first met artist Shirin Neshat when she was assembling a team to create her first video, “Turbulent”.

These were based on three of Franz Kafka's short stories: "The Married Couple", "In the Penal Colony", and "A Fratricide", respectively.

[5] According to Carol Kino of The New York Times, Azari's "multimedia installations have been increasingly showcased in galleries and museums around the world.

[4] His video installation work, Idyllic Life (2012), was part of the exhibition In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art (2018) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.