Deborah Schamoni

Maryam Hoseini’s work explores fragmented embodiment, spatial disruption, and architectures of intimacy. Through painting, drawing, and multi-panel installation, they construct liminal worlds where bodies move boundlessly between legibility and disappearance, conjuring new forms and meanings. Rooted in diasporic experience and shaped by social and political conditions, Hoseini’s practice navigates abstraction and figuration, repetition and rupture. Figuration dissolves into pattern, symmetry, and recurrence. Resisting linear narrative, their compositions unfold as spatial choreographies, portals into nonlinear time.

Maryam Hoseini (b. 1988 in Tehran, IR) lives and works in New York. They hold a BFA from Sooreh Art University, Tehran, and dual MFA degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Bard College, where they currently serve as Co-Chair of the Painting Department. Recent solo and group exhibitions include SITE Santa Fe, USA (2025); Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland (2025); Green Art Gallery, Dubai (2025, 2020); Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (2024); High Art, Paris (2022); Zeyrek Çinili Hamam, Istanbul (2023); Sadie Coles HQ, London (2023); The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield (2022); New Museum, New York (2021); Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York (2020, 2017); MoMA PS1, New York (2018) and SculptureCenter, New York (2019). Their work is held in public collections including Kadist Art Foundation, Paris and San Francisco; Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker; Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao; and York Art Gallery, York.