ABDOLREZA AMINLARI (Iranian, b. 1979) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Aminlari received his BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2002 and completed the AICAD/New York Studio residency program in 2001. He received a fellowship in paper making from the Penland School of Craft (Bakersville, NC) in 2024, was an artist in residence at West Elm (New York, NY) in 2022 and was invited to create an artist project with Dieu Donné (Brooklyn, NY) in 2021. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include ANDREW RAFACZ (Chicago, IL), SITUATIONS (New York, NY), O Gallery (Tehran, Iran), Longhouse Projects (New York, NY), and Taymour Grahne Gallery (New York, NY). Recent and upcoming group exhibitions include Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (Boone, NC), BravinLee, South Street Seaport (Brooklyn, NY), Kristen Lorello Gallery (New York, NY), Marinaro Gallery (New York, NY), Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL), Halsey McKay Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), 839 Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Club Rhubarb (New York, NY), Van Doren Waxter, (New York, NY), Hunterdon Art Museum (Clinton, NJ), Tyler Parks Presents (Los Angeles, CA), Golestani Gallery (Düsseldorf, Germany), and Abrons Art Center (New York, NY). Recent and upcoming art fairs include EXPO Chicago, SITUATIONS (Chicago, IL), NADA Miami, SITUATIONS (Miami, FL), Armory Show, SITUATIONS (New York, NY), Art Toronto, ANDREW RAFACZ (Toronto, CA), NADA New York, ANDREW RAFACZ (New York, NY), Positions Berlin, Golestani Gallery (Berlin, DE), Intersect Aspen, ANDREW RAFACZ (Aspen, CO), Art Los Angeles Contemporary, SITUATIONS (Los Angeles, CA), Untitled Art Fair, ANDREW RAFACZ (Miami Beach, FL), and Dallas Art Fair, Longhouse Projects (Dallas, TX). His work has been written about in many publications, including The Wall Street Journal, ARTnews, BBC Persian, The Hyde Park Herald, and Art Asia Pacific. His work is included in numerous private and public collections.
Gallery Exhibitions
Selected Press
- , ‘Smart’s ‘Expanding the 50th’ opens next week’, Hyde Park Herald, March 2025 (PDF)
- ‘MUST SEE’, Artforum, April 2023
- , ‘Adventures in embroidery: ‘Thread Hijack’ at Hunterdon Art Museum showcases consistent creativity’, NJArts.net, October 2022 (PDF)
- , ‘Meet the second artist to join West Elm's ceramics residency, Abdolreza Aminlari’, July 2022 (PDF)
- , ‘At NADA, A Glorious Collision of Paintings and Ceramics’, The New York Times, May 2022
- , ‘One Piece by Abdolreza Aminlari, Untitled (22.001)’, Kajal Magazine, May 24 2022 (PDF)
- , ‘'We Used To Run This Country' Issue 37: Transmission’, N + 1 Magazine, Spring 2020
- , ‘The Critics’s Notebook’, The New Criterion, February 4 2019 (PDF)
- , ‘In the Studio: Abdolreza Aminlari’, Christine Minas Fine Art, May 18 2017 (PDF)
- , ‘Abdolreza Aminlari and Benjamin King at Longhouse Projects’, ArtNews, Summer Issue 2014 (PDF)
- , ‘An Improv of Color and Threads of Hope’, The Wall Street Journal, June 22 2012 (PDF)








































