Shahpour Pouyan will be joined by critic and art historian Media Farzin and Frist Art Museum curator at large Trinita Kennedy for this conversation about the artist’s practice, his first virtual reality installation, and the exhibition Winter in Paradise.

Photo: Shahpour Pouyan in the studio, 2021. Photo: Anne-Katrin Purkiss and Kenneth Armitage Foundation


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Shahpour Pouyan: Winter in Paradise

May 30–Aug 25, 2024 | Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery

In works of art astonishing for their beauty, sophistication, and virtuosity, Shahpour Pouyan critiques political power and expresses a poetic melancholy about the human condition. Born in Isfahan, Iran, in 1979, he now divides his time between Tehran and London, and his work is in the permanent collections of the British… Read More

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