Installation view of Field of Vision, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, 2021
Kamrooz Aram’s work disrupts the false opposition between ornament and abstraction, and challenges ornament’s relegation to discourses of criminality and excess. In his wide-ranging exhibitions, he stages an encounter between the Euro-American avant-garde and non-western forms of abstraction, interrogating the boundaries between art, artifact, and modes of display. His lyrical paintings and arrangements break down the hierarchies of modernist aesthetics, asking that we rethink its categories and re-encounter these ideas and objects anew. Combining painting, sculpture, collage and exhibition design, he creates an interdependence between object and display, revealing the significance of design and architecture in affecting the interpretation of art.
Kamrooz Aram (b. 1978, Shiraz, Iran) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received a BFA at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD (2001), and an MFA at Columbia University, New York, NY (2003). Solo exhibitions include: The Arts Club of Chicago, IL (2022); and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX (2018); Public collections include Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX.
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