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Afsoon

Artist Biography

A self-taught artist, Afsoon spent her childhood in Iran and youth in California before settling in London in 1988. Her nomadic life is reflected in her work where East merges with West, and the result is simultaneously familiar and foreign.

Working across mediums including photography, linocut, collage and etching, Afsoon’s practice aims to preserve her cultural past and explore nostalgia through visual storytelling and iconography. Her art reveals the introspective and often difficult nature of being a woman artist in the Iranian diaspora, contending with historical allusions and the artist’s own carefully crafted, playful visual language.

Afsoon has exhibited internationally, and her works are held in the collections of LACMA, the British Museum, the Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent Collection, and the Farjam Collection amongst others.

Artist CV
"Forough Adam and Eve," an archival print on somerset artist paper, created by Iranian artist Afsoon

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Afsoon

The Arrival of Her Ladyship (2019)

Edition 3/10

Archival print of a mixed media collage on somerset artist paper

23 x 16.50 in

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The Ticking of Biological Clock in the Barren Land (2017-2018)

Watercolor and paper collage on Arches paper

14 x 10 in.

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"Red Shoes," a linocut print layered with collage by Iranian artist Afsoon

Red Shoes (2023)

Handprinted linocut collaged on Zerkall artist paper

16.5 x 11.7 in.

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"In the End You Can Never Play Both Sides," a watercolor on paper layered with collage, by Iranian artist Afsoon

In the end you can never play both sides (2021)

Watercolor and paper collage on Arches paper

20 x 14.7 in.

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Forough Poetbird (2018)

Edition 8/8

Archival print on Somerset artist paper

16.5 x 23.4 in.

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Seven Beauties – Bird Song (2023)

Handprinted linocut on printed Somerset artist paper

20 x 29 in

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Select Exhibitions

Afsoon

Afsoon: Searching for Myself in the Forest of Bewitchment

October 19th - November 18th, 2023

Summer Art Bash – 2019

Group Exhibition

Art Brief IV

Iranian Contemporary San Francisco - 2018

Art + Design Collaboration

Group Exhibition - 2018

The World is My Home

Afsoon, Roya Farassat, Shahram Karimi and Dana Nehdaran - 2018

ART BRIEF III

The (Un)Draped Woman - 2017

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