This exhibition marks the second showcase of Shahpour Pouyan's art in the United States. Winter in Paradise is funded and sponsored by the Frist Art Museum and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and was the recipient of the 2022 Ellsworth Kelly Award in Visual Arts. Following a successful run at the Frist Museum in Nashville, Winter in Paradise is now traveling to the East Coast, where it will be displayed at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.
In works of art astonishing for their beauty, sophistication, and virtuosity, Shahpour Pouyan critiques political power and expresses a poetic melancholy about the human condition. Born in Isfahan, Iran, in 1979, he now divides his time between Tehran and London, and his work is in the permanent collections of the British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Victoria and Albert Museum. Winter in Paradise will be this internationally renowned artist’s largest solo museum exhibition to date. Three major projects from the past decade will show Pouyan’s extraordinary mastery of a range of traditional and new media and his engagement with history and contemporary events. Learn More.
In works of art astonishing for their beauty, sophistication, and virtuosity, Shahpour Pouyan critiques political power and expresses a poetic melancholy about the human condition. Born in Isfahan, Iran, in 1979, he now divides his time between Tehran and London, and his work is in the permanent collections of the British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Victoria and Albert Museum. Winter in Paradise will be this internationally renowned artist’s largest solo museum exhibition to date. Three major projects from the past decade will show Pouyan’s extraordinary mastery of a range of traditional and new media and his engagement with history and contemporary events. Learn More.
