Yasi Alipour

Bio: Yasi Alipour is an Iranian artist/writer based in New York. Her tactile works on paper uses folding to explore mathematics as a language, with all the historical, social, political, mortal, and embodied ramifications any language holds. Alipour currently lives in Brooklyn and wonders about paper, politics, and performance, probing personal history to parse issues around political instability and interrupted histories. She is a recipient of Sharpe Walentas Studio Program Award (2019/2021), Rema Hort Foundation Emerging Artist Nominee (2018/2019), and the Triple Canopy Publication Intensive (2018). Her work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally, spaces including the Geary Contemporary (2021), Secca (2020), Venice Biennale (2019, IT), Hercules Program (2019, NY), 17 Essex (2019, NY), Limiditi-Temporary Art Project (2018, MR), Practice (2018, NY), Museum of Contemporary Art Vijdovina (2018, SR), Art in Odd Places (2017, NY), and PPOW (2017, NY). Her writing has appeared at the Brooklyn Rail, Spot Magazine, Asia Contemporary Art Week, Photograph Magazine, Volume One/Triple Canopy, and the Dear Dave. Her recent featured interviews include Okwui Okpokwasili, Allison Janae Hamilton, Sanford Biggers, Yto Barrada, Hans Haacke, Mark Dion, Aliza Nisenbaum, Jane Benson, and Kevin Beasley.

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Thesis Exhibition

L to R: Circles and Friction (40 x 26”, Fold, Cyanotype, handmade rice paper, 2021); I’ve been here, II (29 x 54” Fold, Cyanotype, handmade rice paper, 2021); An Ode to Measuring Time (63 1/2 x 49 1/2 Hand Fold, Pigmented Paper, 2019); An Ode to Mapping (Triptych, 96”, 47” ¾ Fold, Pigmented paper, 2020); I see you too (47 ½ x 31 ¾, fold, cyanotype, hand-made watercolor paper, 2021)

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