New York artist Iman Raad on the Dear Beirut benefit auction
Iman Raad
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Iman Raad (Mashhad, Iran 1979) received his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University (2017). He is currently an artist in residence at the Queens Museum Studio Program, and an adjunct faculty at The Cooper Union School of Art. He lives and works in New York City.
In Raad’s diverse works, he draws on influences such as Persian painting, Mughal painting, South-Asian Truck painting and internet image culture. He combines these local references with contemporary subject matter to create his mural-like installations. Using a vivid, high key palette, altered perspective, and repetition that mimics digital glitches, the result is a riot of colour and movement that is both seductive and unsettling.
His recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions at Sargent’s Daughters Gallery, New York (2017), solo exhibition at Dastan Gallery, Tehran (2016), group show at The Flag Art Foundation in New York (Sep 2018), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) (2018), The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in QAGOMA Brisbane, Australia (2018), Centro Cultural La Moneda, Santiago, Chile (2019), and The British Museum, London, UK (2020).
Raad’s works are held in the collections of The British Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The Queensland Art …
Iman Raad (Mashhad, Iran 1979) received his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University (2017). He is currently an artist in residence at the Queens Museum Studio Program, and an adjunct faculty at The Cooper Union School of Art. He lives and works in New York City.
In Raad’s diverse works, he draws on influences such as Persian painting, Mughal painting, South-Asian Truck painting and internet image culture. He combines these local references with contemporary subject matter to create his mural-like installations. Using a vivid, high key palette, altered perspective, and repetition that mimics digital glitches, the result is a riot of colour and movement that is both seductive and unsettling.
His recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions at Sargent’s Daughters Gallery, New York (2017), solo exhibition at Dastan Gallery, Tehran (2016), group show at The Flag Art Foundation in New York (Sep 2018), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) (2018), The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in QAGOMA Brisbane, Australia (2018), Centro Cultural La Moneda, Santiago, Chile (2019), and The British Museum, London, UK (2020).
Raad’s works are held in the collections of The British Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), The Allentown Art Museum, Les Arts Décoratifs, Ogaki poster Museum, Zurich Poster Collection, and The Iranian Museum of Graphic Design, among others.
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