Yasi Alipour

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 intricacies of the world of papers. In her writing, research, and pedagogical approach, Alipour focuses on intergenerational conversations that happen through and within histories of erasure.

Alipour is a recipient of the Dartmouth Artist-in-Residence (2025), Louis 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, including solo exhibitions at Jaffe–Friede Gallery (2025, New Hampshire), Penumbra Foundation (2024, New York), A.I.R. Gallery (2024, New York), Schlomer Haus (2023, California), Bavan Gallery (2022, Iran), Transmitter (2022, New York), 12 Gates Gallery (2022, Pennsylvania), and the Geary Contemporary (2021, New York). 

Her writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Spot Magazine, Asia Contemporary Art Week, The Amp, Photograph Magazine, and 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 critics 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.