Deborah Schamoni

Maryam Hoseini’s paintings depict fractured, headless bodies navigating a landscape of architectural fragments and jagged shards, suggesting ruins or the aftermath of disaster. Exploring the subtle relationship between bodies, physical space, and the politics of narrative  and painted in a bold geometric style and rendered in sumptuous colors, Hoseini’s paintings find levity and pleasure within incompleteness and breakages. By using shaped canvases that engage with the surrounding architecture, Hoseini positions the viewers as voyeurs into her painted worlds while examining the concept of ruins, displacement, and fracture.

Maryam Hoseini (b. 1988, Tehran, Iran) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Hoseini earned a BA from Sooreh Art University in Tehran, Iran and dual MFA degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL and Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Sadie Coles HQ, London (2023); The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA (2022); Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy (2022); High Art, Paris, France (2022); Deborah Schamoni, Munich, Germany (2021); Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, USA (2020); MOMA PS1, New York, USA (2016).