25S Artist-in-Residence: Yasi Alipour

Please join the Studio Art Department in welcoming our 2025 spring term Artist-in-Residence, Yasi Alipour.

Artist talk: Tuesday, 4/8 at 4:45 PM. Loew Auditorium, BVAC. Reception to follow.

Yasi Alipour is an Iranian artist/writer based in Brooklyn. Her tactile works explore folding as a flirtation with mathematics, as traces of time, and as an homage to the vast world of papers. In her writing, research, and pedagogical approach, Alipour focuses on intergenerational conversations that happen through and within histories of erasure. Alipour currently lives in Brooklyn and wonders about paper, counting, and silence. 

She is a recipient of the Dartmouth Artist-in-Residence (2025), Luis Comfort Tiffany Grant (2022), Sharpe Walentas Studio Program Award (2019/2021), Rema Hort Foundation Emerging Artist Nominee (2018/2019), and the Triple Canopy Publication Intensive (2018). Her work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally, spaces including solo exhibitions at  Penumbra Foundation (2024, NY), A.I.R. Gallery (2024, NY), Schlomer Haus (2023/SF), Bavan Gallery (2022, Iran), Transmitter (2022, NY), 12 Gates Gallery (2022, PHL), the Geary Contemporary (2021), Secca (2020), Venice Biennale (2019, IT), Hercules Program (2019, NY), 17 Essex (2019, NY), Limiditi-Temporary Art Project (2018, MR), Practice (2018, NY), Museum of Contemporary Art Vijdovina (2018, SR), Art in Odd Places (2017, NY), and PPOW (2017, NY).

Her writing has appeared at the Brooklyn Rail, Spot Magazine, Asia Contemporary Art Week, Photograph Magazine, Volume One/Triple Canopy, and the Dear Dave. She has been the recipient of MHZ Foundation's Critics of Color (Curationist) and awarded the Guest Editor of the Brooklyn Rail's Critic's Page (November 2021). Her recent featured interviews include Julie Mehretu, Dorothea Rockburne, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Okwui Okpokwasili, Sanford Biggers, Yto Barrada, Hans Haacke, Mark Dion, Aliza Nisenbaum, Jane Benson, and Kevin Beasley. Alipour holds an MFA from Columbia University and is a Faculty at RISD, and SVA.