SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 Elusive Ornament, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Kamrooz Aram: Privacy, An Exhibition, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2021 Un object, un geste, Galerie Mitterrand, Paris, France
Lives of Forms: Kamrooz Aram and Iman Issa, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium
The New Arabesque, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
2019 In Memory of the Arabesque, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2018 Kamrooz Aram: An Object, A Gesture, A Décor, The FLAG Art Foundation, NY
FOCUS: Kamrooz Aram, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Kamrooz Aram, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Hales Gallery, NY
Ancient Blue Ornament, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2017 Ornament for Indifferent Architecture, Museum Dhondt, Dhaenens, Belgium
2016 Recollections for a Room, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2014 Unstable Paintings for Anxious Interiors, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2012 Further Negotiations, Battat Contemporary, Montreal, Canada
2011 Negotiations, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Generation after Generation, Revolution after Revelation, LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Of Flame and Splendour, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Night Visions and Revolutionary Dreams, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York NY
2006 Lightning, Thunder, Brimstone and Fire, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
Realms and Reveries, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
2004 Beyond the Borders, Between the Trees, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Angel of History, Scheider Art Museum, Ashland, OR (forthcoming)
2024 Expodemic: Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes, Palazzo delle
Esposizioni, Rome Paraventi
2023 Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
2022 The Grid and the Curve, JTT Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Matisse Alive, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Field of Vision, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Art on the Grid, Public Art Fund, New York, NY
RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting, PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
Some Mysterious Process: 50 Years of Collecting International Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Desorientalismos, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
Group Show, in collaboration with Jhaveri Contemporary, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2019 Fragile Frontiers: Visions on Iran’s in/visible borders, YARAT Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan
Gateway: Fragments, Yesterday and Today, Gallery S, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Jameel Prize 5, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, UAE
The Crime of Adolf Loos, Axel Vervoodt, Wijnegem, Belguim
2018 Jameel Prize 5, The Porter Gallery, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Le Musée Imaginaire, Pavillion Trab, Jaou Tunis, Tunisia
Opening Remarks, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, KSA
2017 Other Hours, 601Artspace, New York, NY
Lack of Location is My Location, Koenig & Clinton, Brooklyn, NY
The Intimate Enemy, Pelagica, Milan, Italy
2016 The Arch of my Eyes Orbit, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
2015 The Worlds Turned Upside Down, BPS22, Brussels, Belgium
Russian Doll, M+B, Los Angeles, CA
Influence, curated by Oliver Wasow, BYRDCLIFFE Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
Geometries of Difference: New Approaches to Ornament and Abstraction, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz, NY
Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH,
2014 The Botanica, presented by AA Bronson and Michael Bühler-Rose, Invisible Exports, New York, NY
Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Fixed Unknowns, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY
Past Tradition, Exhibit 320, New Delhi, India
Garden and Spring, The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2014 exhibition, curated by Nada Raza, Dubai, UAE
2013 The Pink Panther Imitates Nothing, Rhode Island School of Design Memorial Hall Gallery, Providence, RI
MICA: Then/Now, Kunsthalle Beacon/Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Beacon, NY
Kamrooz Aram + Julie Weitz, The Suburban, Chicago, IL
Wallspace Tenth Anniversary Show, Wallspace, New York, NY
2012 Brute Ornament, Kamrooz Aram and Seher Shah, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Referencing History, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
The Elephant in The Dark, curated by Amirali Ghasemi, The Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India
The End…, curated by Michael Buhler-Rose and John Connelly, Vogt Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Emergent New York, The Granary, Sharon, CT
30; A Brooklyn Salon, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Painted Pictures, curated by Arthur Ou, Blackston Gallery, New York, NY
The MENASA Studio Dispatches, The Island, United Kingdom and Art Dubai Projects, Dubai, UAE
2010 Contemporary Notes, curated by Vahid Sharifian, Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Run and Tell That!, Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, NY
Love in Vein: Editions Fawbush projects and artists 2005 – 2010, Gering and Lopez Gallery, New York, NY
roundabout, City Gallery of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand (international tour)
The Big Picture, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY
Pictures & Statues, Country Club Projects, Cincinnati, OH
natural renditions, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Self-Consciousness, curated by Peter Doig and Hilton Als, VeneKlasen/Werner, Berlin, Germany
Accented, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Fresh From Chelsea: 21 New York Artists, The University Galleries, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
New Prints 2009, selected by Polly Apfelbaum, International Print Center, New York, NY,
NEWAGERIOT, Country Club Projects, Los Angeles, CA
State of Mind, curated by Paolo Colombo, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
2008 Empire and its Discontents, Tufts University Art Gallery at the Aidekman Arts Center; Medford, MA
microwave, six, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
A Sorry Kind of Wisdom, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, curated by Lisa Dennison, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
Warlord, Smith-Stewart Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Kamrooz Aram/Takahiko Iimura, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Collectors Choice III, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Dream of Today, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
I will be alright, Country Club Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Merging Influence: Eastern Elements in New American Art, Monserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2006 A Tale of Two Cities, Busan Biennale 2006 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Busan, South Korea
Bricks in the Hood, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, NY
2005 The Common Room, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
Greater New York 2005, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and the Museum of Modern Art, Long Island City, NY
KA/VH:RA/AG, Kamrooz Aram, Van Hanos, Richard Aldrich, Amy Granat, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, NY
The Most Splendid Apocalypse, P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY
Time's Arrow -> Twelve Random Thoughts on Beauty, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Group Exhibition, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, NY
The Lazarus Effect, Prague Biennale I, Prague, Czech Republic (catalogue)
MFA Thesis Exhibition, The Studebaker Building, Columbia University, New York, NY,
The Broken Mirror: Midnight's Children, Leroy Nieman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
2002 Process/ion, Columbia University, New York, NY
Multitude, Artists' Space, New York, NY
2001 Calligraphic Legacy, Transamerica Building Lobby, San Francisco, CA
2000 November, The H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Mirror of the Invisible, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, San Bernadino, CA (catalogue)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 Ramadan, Dina A. “Kamrooz Aram: Elusive Ornament,” The Brooklyn Rail, November 3
Corwin, William. “Kamrooz Aram with William Corwin,” The Brooklyn Rail, November 1
"MUST SEE: Kamrooz Aram: Elusive Ornament,” Artforum, September 14
Provincetown Independent. "A Public Exploration Of Privacy," May 11 Abraham Storer.
2021 300 Magazine. “Field of Vision, a Unique Five-Person Exhibit at Peter Bum Gallery”, July
Heinrich, Will. “3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now”. The New York Times, June 30
Nair, Uma. "Nature Morte, Delhi: Iranian artist Kamrooz Aram’s first exhibition in India interrogates the overlapping trajectories of ornamental patterning". Architectural Digest, January
2019 Nadine Khalil. “De-Construction: Create to Destroy.” Canvas, May
2018 Blay, Christipher. “Kamrooz Aram at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.” Glasstire, April 23
Amirkhani, Jordan. “Art Review: Kamrooz Aram Delivers Institutional Critique at Atlanta Contemporary.” BURNAWAY, March 22
Burleigh, Paula. “Critics' Picks: Kamrooz Aram, Anwar Jalal Shemza.” Artforum, February
2017 Aram, Kamrooz. The Artist Project: What Artists See When They Look At Art. New York: Phaidon
Vali, Murtaza. “Kamrooz Aram: Recollections for a Room.” ArtReview Asia, Spring
Martin, Corinne. “Ornament and Pattern”. SELECTIONS, Spring
Sreberny Mohammadi, Leili. "Kamrooz Aram is Painting the Constellation," Harper's Bazaar Arabia, March 20
2015 Haider, Faheem. “Politics Camouflaged as Ornamental Abstraction.” Review of Geometries of Difference: New Approaches to Ornament and Abstraction. Hyperallergic, April 9
“Philanthropist Peter Norton donates art to Rose Museum.” The Boston Globe, March 2
2014 “Best of 2014: Our top 10 exhibitions around the world.” Hyperallergic, December 29
Voon, Claire. “The Unstable Art of Pattern Recognition.” Hyperallergic, July 21
Lord, Christopher. “Monoculture.” Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia, May/June
Akkermans, Ari. “Mapping Unstable Objects.” Mantle, May 13
Jones, Kevin. “Critics' Picks: Kamrooz Aram.” Artforum, April
Hicks, Alistair. The Global Art Compass: New Directions in 21stCentury Art. Thames & Hudson, April 22
Seaman, Anna. “Deconstructing Carpets and Culture.” The National, April 8
Vali, Murtaza. “History Painting.” Canvas, March/April
Seaman, Anna. “Inside the World of Kamrooz Aram.” The National, March 15
“Palimpsest: Unstable Paintings for Anxious Interiors”. Edited by Yasmin Atassi, with texts by Eva Díaz, Media Farzin, Murtaza Vali, Kamrooz Aram. Green Art Gallery, Dubai and Anomie Publishing, London, U.K
2013 Tehini, Noor. “Art & Soul: Interview with Kamrooz Aram” SavoirFlair, August 20, Masters, HG. “Abraaj Group Picks Five For Prize.” ArtAsiaPacific, July 2
Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen. “The Abraaj Group Art Prize names five winners.” The Daily Star, Beirut, June 12
“Abraaj Group Art Prize winners announced.” Artforum, June 11
2012 Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen. "Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty." Bidoun, Summer
2012 Lord, Chris. “Exhibition in Dubai examines ornamental art.” The National, May 2
Ibrahim, Dina. "Critics' Picks." Artforum, April
Kalsi, Jyoti. "A break in the pattern." Gulfnews, March 30
Vali, Murtaza. Brute Ornament, exhibition catalogue. Green Art Gallery, Dubai, March
2011 Sykes, Stephanie and Fekri, Reem. Interview with Kamrooz Aram. Art Dubai Journal, March
Paynter, November. "Sharjah Biennial: 10 Plot for a Biennial (16 March-16 May) and Art Dubai (16-19 March, 2011)". Art Agenda, March 24
Proctor, R.A. "AO Onsite Fair Preview – Dubai: Art Dubai’s Fifth Edition Offers Strongest Program To Date." AO Art Observed, March 17
Mollett, J. "AO on Site, Dubai – Art Dubai 2011 Summary." AO Art Observed, March
Erickson-Kerry, Ian. “Kamrooz Aram exhibit: SoA alum waves a painted flag at Perry Rubenstein Gallery in Chelsea.” Columbia Spectator, February 24
Holledge, Richard. “Painting the Middle East With Too Broad a Brush?” The Wall Street Journal, March 2
“Kamrooz Aram Explores Art History, Iranian Culture,”, The Huffington Post, March
Krause, Katherine. “Negotiations.” Dossier Journal, February 16
Krause, Katherine. “Look: Kamrooz Aram.” Dossier Journal, February 1
"Negotiating History," Kamrooz Aram in conversation with Arthur Ou. Negotiations, catalogue. Perry Rubenstein Gallery, February
2010 Gyorody, Andrea. "Critic's Picks: Kamrooz Aram." Review of Generation after Generation, Revolution after Revelation at LA><ART, Artforum, March 3
Pollack, Barbara. "Making an Impact." ARTnews, May
Sand, Olivia. "Profile: Kamrooz Aram." Asian Art Newspaper, September
Sharifian, Vahid. "Interview with Kamrooz Aram," Tandis, April
Thomas, Nicholas; Arrowsmith, Rupert Richard; Cohn, Don J.; Mazria-Katz, Marisa. "roundabout," exhibition catalogue. ArtAsiaPacific, New York, 2010
Vaziri, Katayoun. “Interview: Kamrooz Aram.” Tamasha, BBC Persian TV, November 18
2009 Amirsadeghi, Hossein. Different Sames: New Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art. Thames & Hudson, London
“Kamrooz Aram. An artist sees signs of Neo-Orientalism in industry's restless search for a new boom to promote." ArtReview.com, October 2
"Goings on About Town: Kamrooz Aram." The New Yorker, March 16
Indiana, Gary. "Kamrooz Aram: Uneasy Delights." Cover article. Art in America, March
Rosenberg, Karen. "East in the Eye of This Beholder." The New York Times, March 22
Vali, Murtaza. "New York, Kamrooz Aram: Of Flame and Splendour, Perry Rubenstein Gallery." Bidoun, Summer
Wolin, Joseph R. "Kamrooz Aram, Of Flame and Splendour." Time Out New York, April 2
2008 Bishop, Philip E. "OMA's 'Abstracts in Art' references the past." Arts and Entertainment review. Orlando Sentinel, January 12
Dumett, Mari. "Feature Anterier: an index to contemporary art's imminent history," review of Empire and its Discontents at Tufts University Art Gallery. Art Papers, November/December
"Goings On About Town: Microwave." The New Yorker, September 15
McQuaid, Cate. "Empire strikes back: Artists examine identity politics of East and West," review of Empire and its Discontents at Tufts University Art Gallery. Boston Globe, October 26
Moshayedi, Aram. "The Burdens of Imaging: Kamrooz Aram's Painted Elsewhere." Reading Room: A Journal of Art and Culture: transcendental pop, February
Tappis, Jordan. "Art Basel." Review of Kamrooz Aram at The NADA Art Fair. Malibu Magazine, February/March
Various Authors. "Galleries." Art Asia Pacific Almanac, Volume 3
Empire and its Discontents, catalogue. Tufts University Art Gallery at the Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, MA, October
Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, catalogue. The Flag Art Foundation, New York, April
2007 Aram, Kamrooz. "Kamrooz Aram." NY Arts Magazine, November/December
Azimi, Negar. "Preview: Kamrooz Aram, Night Visions and Revolutionary Dreams." Bidoun, Winter
Caviness, Todd. "Daring displays." Review of Audacity in Art, at the Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando Sentinel, December 14
Lew, Christopher. "Projects in the Making... Kamrooz Aram: Trial By Fire." Art Asia Pacific, July/August
Various Authors, "Art Festivals" and "Museums: Art Institutions in the Americas." Art Asia Pacific Almanac, Vol 2
Baker, R.C. "Best in Show: Kamrooz Aram, Night Visions and Revolutionary Dreams." The Village Voice, February 28
Saltz, Jerry. "The Biggest Picture", The Village Voice, January 30
Merging Influence: Eastern Elements in New American Art, catalogue. Monserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2006 Bayliss, Sarah H. "East Meets West Meets East.” ARTnews, November
Brown, Neal. “Canvassing opinions, drawing ideals.” The First Post, May 19
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel. “Frieze Art fair.” The Times, London, UK, October 12
Firstenberg, Lauri. "Excess of Subjectivity." MASSMoca Catalog Interview
Mitchell, John E. "Kamrooz Aram." North Adams Transcript, January 12
Price, Matt. "Mixed Paint: A Survey of Contemporary Painters." Flash Art #239, November/December
Statton, Liza. "Realms and Reveries." MASS MoCA, catalog essay
Weber, Rebecca L. "Art With Meaning." Impressions Magazine, October
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2002 Cotter, Holland. "Art in Review, 'Multitude'." The New York Times, October 11
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Respini, Eva. Process/ion: An Exhibition in Three Locations, exhibition brochure
Small, Irene. "Memory of Form," essay. Multitude, exhibition catalogue
2000 Mirror of the Invisible, catalogue. Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, San Bernadino, CA
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2025 Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, NY
2023 Rome Prize, Rome Italy
2014 Abraaj Group Art Prize, Dubai, UAE
2004 NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts), New York, NY
2001-03 Jacob K. Javitz Fellowship, New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, USA
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
The FLAG Foundation, New York, USA
Deutsche Bank Collection
Honart Museum, Tehran, Iran
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Art Program of the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Raymond Learsy and Melva Bucksbaum, Sharon, CT
Norton Family Collection, Santa Monica, CA and New York, USA
The Sender Collection, New York, USA
SPM (Salsali Private Museum), Dubai, UAE
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis College, Waltham, MA