Zahra Ghyasi

Zahra Ghyasi (b.1981, Urmia, Iran) has a BSc in Computer Hardware Engineering as well as an MBA degree. She started her career as a visual artist in 2010. Zahra depicts the world around her in terms of the gaps that exist in reality. She reflects human concepts such as pleasure, history, sexual identity by depicting the forms of nature that are sometimes deformed and transformed. She has held 5 solo shows in Iran and China and her works have been included in several group shows. Besides her field of specialty, i.e., painting, she has curated several exhibitions. She has also translated and published articles and books on philosophy and art. Zahra Ghyasi lives and works in Tehran.

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Zahra Ghyasi
“The Virtuous City is of one type only, for right is removed from multiplicity, and there is only one road to goods.” —The Nasirean Ethics, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
2019
Oil on canvas
150 x 220cm

Zahra Ghyasi
The morning Resurrection From "Venus; where the sun Rises in the West and set in the East." Series
2021
Oil on canvas
150 x 100 cm

Zahra Ghyasi
“Reduction, being reduced from within, putting a bowl in, digging a well deep down oneself, and retreating inside, looking for one’s self… Aye, it all starts here, when a catastrophe begins: retreating inside and wandering in the land of darkness.” —Ayda: Tree, Dagger, Remembrance, Ahmad Shamlou
2018
Oil on canvas
200 x 150cm