Arghavan Khosravi (b. 1984, Shahr-e Kord, Iran)
Arghavan Khosravi constructs sculptural paintings that negotiate the space between Persian miniature traditions, surreal narrative, and personal memory. Her multi-panel works swell outward—featuring cut wood, painted surfaces, cords, feathers, and layered relief—creating perceptual shifts that reflect the tensions of women’s agency, displacement, and censorship. Khosravi’s imagery is vivid yet haunted: robed figures, cages, blindfolds, and fluttering plumes converge in compressed spaces that resist linear storytelling.
Khosravi earned a BFA in Graphic Design from Tehran Azad University and an MFA in Illustration from the University of Tehran before emigrating to the U.S. She completed a post-baccalaureate program at Brandeis University and received her MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2018.
Notable solo exhibitions include Arghavan Khosravi at the Currier Museum of Art (Manchester, NH) and The Witness at Kavi Gupta Gallery (Chicago). Her work has also been shown at Rachel Uffner Gallery (New York), Koenig Gallery (Berlin), M+B Gallery (Los Angeles), Carl Kostyál (London), Stems Gallery (Brussels), and others. She has participated in group exhibitions including the Venice Biennale collateral Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained and shows at MOCA Yinchuan (China), Orlando Museum of Art, Newport Art Museum, and Provincetown Art Association & Museum.
Khosravi’s residencies include the Currier Museum (Manchester), Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown), the Studios at MassMoCA (North Adams), Monson Arts (Maine), and Residency Unlimited (Brooklyn). She has been awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (2019) and was a Walter Feldman Fellow (2017). Her works are in the collections of institutions such as the Newport Art Museum, RISD Museum, Rose Art Museum, Currier Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
She lives and works in Stamford, Connecticut.