Ali Banisadr (b. 1976 in Tehran, Iran. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY)

al-kimia, 2025

Lithograph in seven colors on Rives BFK paper

14 3/4 x 11 in. (37.5 x 28 cm)

Edition 30 of 60, plus 20 artist's proofs and 3 printer's proofs

Signed and numbered by the artist

Printed at ULAE Studio, New York

Published by Cristea Roberts Gallery, London

Ali Banisadr is currently the subject of a landmark exhibition at the KMA- the artist's first major museum survey. His complex, expansive paintings are rich with figurative allusions rooted in autobiographical narratives, sonic recollection, invented stories, world history, collective memory, and mythology. Banisadr creates complex, turbulent worlds whose syncopated rhythms corral a multitude of references from art history as well as allusions to our own tempestuous times.

This limited-edition print was created for the KMA to commemorate Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist.

The artist has been the recipient of numerous international solo and group exhibitions at: Asia Society, New York (2021); Museo Stefano Bardini & Palazzo Vecchio, Florence (2021); Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2021); Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford (2020); Benaki Museum, Athens (2020); Gemaldegalerie, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (2019); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018); 55th Venice Biennale (2013) Saatchi Gallery, London (2009); and the Queens Museum of Art, NY (2008), among others. Banisadr's work is featured in public collections including: Buffalo AKG Art Museum; British Museum, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Het Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Netherlands; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford.

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