The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

Maryam Hoseini received her BA from Sooreh Art University, Tehran, Iran, in 2012 and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, and Bard College, Annandale- on-Hudson, NY, in 2016. Hoseini creates paintings in acrylic, ink, and pencil on shaped wood panels that survey the generative depths of in-betweenness. Influenced by her own ruptured identity as an Iranian woman artist living and working in the US, Hoseini collapses the boundaries between painting, drawing, and architecture, employing thin, flat layers of soft color and meticulous graphite details to narrate a lyrical allegory populated by genderless characters. Her protagonists, fragmented, nude, and often without heads, swim inside a fractured interiorized world, embellished with architectural adornments native to Hoseini’s homeland.