The Rising Sun, 2022

Color etching from 8 plates with Aquatint, Spitbite, Drypoint, and Burnisher on Hahnemuhle Copperplate Bright White 350gsm paper

30.75 x 59.5 in. (78.1 x 151.1 cm);
Framed dimensions: 33 x 61.5 in (83.8 x 156.2 cm)

A.P. Edition 2 of 8

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

Ali Banisadr's work demonstrates a careful balancing act between chaos and order, and abstract and figurative painting and drawing. His complex, expansive paintings are rich with figurative allusions rooted in autobiographical narratives, sonic recollection, invented stories, world history, collective memory, and mythology. The artist creates complex, turbulent worlds whose syncopated rhythms corral a multitude of references from art history as well as allusions to our own tempestuous times. The Rising Sun, 2022, is a masterful etching that captures the dynamic, painterly quality characteristic of Banisadr's paintings.

Banisadr has been the subject of numerous international solo and group exhibitions at venues including: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton (2023); Museo Stefano Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2021); Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford (2020); Gemäldegalerie, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (2019); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018); and 55th Venice Biennale, Venice (2013), among others. Banisadr's work is featured in public collections including: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; British Museum, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Het Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Netherlands; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; 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. Banisadr was a 2022 KMA Gala honoree and will be the subject of a solo exhibition at the KMA in Fall 2024.