Biography

Kamrooz Aram is a contemporary artist whose work explores themes relating to systems of belief, including nationalist, religious, and artistic ideologies. Aram’s work uses iconography as well as abstraction to present the viewer with imagery that challenges reductive and binaristic ways of seeing some of the social, cultural, and political issues of today. His paintings, drawings and collages have been known to bring together traditional and contemporary cultural references to create scenes reflecting “the carnivalesque, absurd, magical and scary present day.”

Aram received his MFA from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 in 2003. He has had solo exhibitions at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, commonly referred to as MASS MoCA, is a museum in a converted factory building located in North Adams, Massachusetts, USA. It is one of the largest centers for contemporary visual art and performing arts in the country.MASS MoCA opened with 19...

(MASSMoCA), North Adams, MA; Wilkinson Gallery, London; Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York; Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York; and LAXART, Los Angeles, CA. His work has been included in various group exhibitions internationally including roundabout (2010), the Busan Biennale (2006), P.S.1/MoMA’s Greater New York 2005, and the Prague Biennale I (2003). His work has been featured and reviewed widely in publications such as Art in America, Artforum.com, The New York Times, Asian Art Newspaper, ArtAsiaPacific, The Village Voice, and the arts and culture segment on BBC Farsi, Tamasha. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.