Kamrooz Aram
2025 Stepping Stone Grantee
Bio
Kamrooz Aram was born in Shiraz, Iran and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Recent exhibitions include: "Domestic Compositions," Green Art Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; "The Turquoise Agenda," Anton Kern Gallery WINDOW, New York, NY; "Elusive Ornament," Peter Blum Gallery, New York; "Privacy, an Exhibition," The Arts Club of Chicago; "Lives of Forms: Kamrooz Aram and Iman Issa," Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium; "The New Arabesque," Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, India; "An Object, A Gesture, A Décor," FLAG Art Foundation, New York; "In Memory of the Arabesque," Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE; "Focus: Kamrooz Aram," The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; "Ancient Blue Ornament," The Atlanta Contemporary; "Ornament for Indifferent Architecture," Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium.
Artwork details
Lives of Forms
, 2021Wall painting, painting/collageVariable dimensionsInstallation view of Lives of Forms at Z33 House for Art, Design and Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium.
Domestic Composition (Biruni/Andaruni)
, 2022Walnut veneered MDF, glass, oil and pencil on linen and ceramic objects48 × 36 × 8 inches
Variations on Wine Bottle, Polychrome on White Ground
, 2021Oil, color pencil and book pages on linen116 × 16 inches (6 panels, 16 × 16 inches each)
Composition with Lapis Lazuli, Cobalt and Ceramic Bottle
, 2021Lapis lazuli and cobalt oil paint on linen, lapis lazuli and cobalt oil paint on wood, marble, ceramic. Wall paintingPanel: 54 × 40 inches, Pedestal: 42 × 8 × 8 inchesInstallation view: Un Objet, Un Geste
Installation view at Pallazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, IT
, 2024Oil on linen painting, painted mdf sculptures, stucco lustro (Venetian plaster) on wallVariable
Installation view of Privacy: An Exhibition at The Arts Club of Chicago
, 2022Painting: oil, oil crayon and pencil on linen. Wall painting, curtain and furnitureVariable dimensions
Lives of Forms, 2021. Wall painting, painting/collage. Variable dimensions. Installation view of Lives of Forms at Z33 House for Art, Design and Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium.