Kamrooz Aram

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Kamrooz Aram is a contemporary artist whose paintings and drawings bring together traditional and contemporary cultural references to create scenes reflecting “the carnivalesque, absurd, magical and scary present day.” ^[1] Aram was born in Shiraz, Iran in 1978 and received his MFA from Columbia University in 2003. He has had solo exhibitions at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASSMoCA), North Adams, MA; Wilkinson Gallery, London; and Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York. His work has been included in various group exhibitions internationally including the Busan Biennale (2006), P.S.1/MoMA’s Greater New York 2005, and the Prague Biennale I (2003). He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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Kamrooz Aram

Representing Galleries:
Wilkinson Gallery, London
Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Night Visions and Revolutionary Dreams, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, 2007
Lightning, Thunder, Brimstone and Fire, Wilkinson Gallery, London, 2006
Realms and Reveries, MASSMoCA, North Adams, MA, 2006

Selected Group Exhibitions:
Kamrooz Aram / Takahiko IImura, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, 2007
Dream of Today, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, 2007
I will be alright, Country Club Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 2007
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York, 2007
Busan Biennale 2006, Busan, South Korea::: 360-degree view of Busan Biennale Meditation Station, 2006
Greater New York 2005, P.S.1/MoMA, New York
Multitude, Artists Space, 2002

Selected Press:
"Projects in the Making: Kamrooz Aram: Trial by Fire" by Christopher Y. Lew, Art Asia Pacific, Issue #54, July/August 2007
"Best in Show" by R.C. Baker, The Village Voice, February 23, 2007
"Art in Review" by Holland Cotter, The New York Times, March 19, 2004

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