ARGHAVAN KHOSRAVI

Arghavan Khosravi (b. 1984, Iran) is a painter whose work merges Persian miniature traditions with surrealism, contemporary politics, and personal narrative. Now based in the United States, she creates layered, sculptural paintings that incorporate architectural fragments, symbolic motifs, and textile or carved elements. Her practice explores themes of exile, memory, gender, and the dualities of freedom and constraint.

Khosravi received her MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (2018), after completing an MFA in Illustration at the University of Tehran and a post-baccalaureate in Studio Art at Brandeis University. She has held solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Rose Art Museum, Currier Museum of Art, and Newport Art Museum, as well as at galleries including Rachel Uffner Gallery (New York), Koenig (Berlin), Kavi Gupta (Chicago), M+B (Los Angeles), and Stems Gallery (Brussels and Paris).

Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Flag Art Foundation, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art (China), Parasol Unit (Venice), and the Orlando Museum of Art, among others. In 2019 she received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, and in 2023 she was Artist-in-Residence at the Rose Art Museum. Her work belongs to the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; RISD Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum; Rose Art Museum; Currier Museum of Art; Newport Art Museum; Albertina Museum, Vienna