Yasi Alipour is an Iranian artist/writer based in Brooklyn. 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, counting, and silence, probing personal history to parse issues around political interruption and unstable histories. Recent solo exhibitions include Bavan Gallery (Tehran, 2022), 12 Gates Gallery (Philadelphia, 2022), She is a recipient of Critics of Color (2021/2022), 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, in spaces including two person exhibitions at Transmitter Gallery (2022, NY), the Geary Contemporary (2021, NY), and has been featured in many group exhibitions including 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, Curstionist, Asia Contemporary Art Week, Photograph Magazine, Volume One/Triple Canopy, and the Dear Dave. Her recent featured interviews include Julie Mehretu, Dorothea Rockburne, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Okwui Okpokwasili, Sanford Biggers, Yto Barrada, Hans Haacke, Mark Dion, Aliza Nisenbaum, Jane Benson, and Kevin Beasley. In Fall of 2021, Alipour was invited as the guest editor of the Brooklyn Rail’s Critics Page. Alipour holds an MFA from Columbia University and is a Faculty at Columbia University, SVA, and Parson’s MFA Fine Arts.
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