January 17 - February 23, 2020

Laleh Khorramian (b. Tehran, Iran) studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and received her undergraduate degree at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago; and her MFA at Columbia University, New York. Khorramian has exhibited internationally, including venues such as MASS MOCA, U.S.A; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Art Basel Statements, Switzerland; Ballroom Marfa, Texas; Istanbul Museum of Art, Istanbul; The Sundance Film Festival, Utah; The Midnight Moment in Times Square, NYC; and The Queensland Art Gallery, Australia. In 2013, Bartleby and Co. (Brussels) published her first limited edition artist book titled, Include Amplified Toilet Water, housed in the collections of MoMA, NYC; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Columbia University, NYC; and the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels.

Khorramian’s practice incorporates the cosmological thinking of ancient cultures, their complex mythologies, and evocative spiritual vocabularies within her imagined worlds. In creating her work, she synthesizes these notions into “histories” that are both futuristic and ancient. Khorramian sees her studio practice as a series of experiments that embraces chance as a starting point for discovering possibilities of the unknown, whose details and outcomes she then investigates and reposition. In a vacillating process between macro and micro views of painted landscapes and incidental spaces, Khorramian integrates fiction within both spectacle and theater to explore the transience of living matter and beings and its cycles of depletion and plenitude.

Over the past decade, Khorramian’s work has spanned stop motion animation films, sound works, monoprints, drawings, painted landscapes, portraits, and collage. By removing cultural or historical specificity from her narratives, Khorramian uses the ordinary to portray the epic, universal, and transient. All while in a search for worlds just beyond the concrete material environment that surrounds us.