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. Painted in a bold geometric style and rendered in sumptuous colors, Hoseini’s paintings find levity and pleasure within incompleteness and breakages. While an erotic charge pulses through Hoseini’s works, their figures do not follow any traditional notions of gender or sexuality. Instead, they revel in finding new ways to use their bodies. Hoseini’s artistic approach reflects the inventiveness of their characters, as they freely intermingles drawing and painting, figuration and abstraction. By using shaped canvases that engage with the surrounding architecture, Hoseini positions the viewers as voyeurs into their painted worlds.

Maryam Hoseini (b. 1988, Tehran, Iran) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and currently holds the position of Co-Chair of the Painting Department at Bard College. 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); Zeyrek Çinili Hamam, Istanbul, Turkey (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); New Museum, New York, USA (2021); Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, USA (2020); Sculpture Center, New York, USA (2019); The Heartbreak Palace, Venice, Italy (2019); MoMA PS1, New York, USA (2018).