Kamrooz Aram

Biography

Kamrooz Aram was born in Shiraz, Iran and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Working in painting, sculpture, collage, and exhibition design, Kamrooz Aram’s work stages an encounter between the European-American avant-garde and non-western forms of abstraction.His exhibitions very often try to rearrange the boundaries between art and artifact through different modes of display. His lyrical paintings and arrangements break down the hierarchies of Western aesthetics, asking that we rethink its categories and re-encounter these ideas and objects anew.

Notable Solo Exhibitions

Elusive Ornament at Peter Blum Gallery (New York, 2022)

Privacy: An Exhibition at The Arts Club of Chicago (Chicago, 2022)

An Object, A Gesture, A Déco at FLAG Art Foundation (New York, 2018)

Arabesque at Green Art Gallery (Dubai, 2016)

Notable Group Exhibitions

Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries at Fondazione Prada (Milan, 2023)

Art on the Grid at Public Art Fund (New York, 2020)

Jameel Prize 5 at Jameel Arts Center, (Dubai, 2018)

Greater New York at MoMA PS1 (New York, 2005)

Public Collections Include

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)

Sharjah Art Foundation (Sharjah)The FLAG Foundation (New York)

Deutsche Bank Collection (New York)

Press

He has been featured in Artforum, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Art in America, among others.