Conceived in two parts, this double-gallery exhibition explores the origins of Tarot in Renaissance Italy and its ongoing relevance as a source of inspiration for artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist is the first major U.S. museum survey of the contemporary artist Ali Banisadr. This exhibition encompasses nearly twenty years of the artist’s singular practice, from 2006 to the present, across the mediums of painting, drawing, and printmaking. Sculpture, a new direction for the artist, will be presented for the first time.
Perrotin is pleased to participate in the first edition of Art Basel Qatar with a solo presentation by Ali Banisadr. On this occasion, the artist presents Al-Kīmiyā: The Art of Transformation, an exhibition that unfolds across painting, sculpture, and works on paper to examine humanity’s enduring drive toward becoming—toward change, mutation, and renewal. The title draws from al-kīmiyā, the Arabic root of alchemy, understood not merely as material transmutation but as a philosophical and spiritual process: a reconfiguration of perception, knowledge, and being.
Join us for a conversation between artist Ali Banisadr and writer John Vincler in conjunction with Banisadr's solo exhibition Noble/Savage, now on view at Olney Gleason. The program will explore Banisadr's current new body of work, his investigations into myth, memory, technology, and the perpetual tension between nature and civilization.
Olney Gleason is pleased to announce our first exhibition, Ali Banisadr: Noble/Savage, in our 509 West 27th Street gallery. Presenting new paintings, bronze sculptures, and works on paper, the exhibition explores Banisadr’s singular vision as iterated through a range of media.
Video courtesy of Kasmin, Victoria Miro, Perrotin, Cristea Roberts Gallery, and Thaddaeus Ropac gallery. Created by Pushpin Films.
Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist is the first major U.S. museum survey of the Brooklyn-based, Iranian-born artist Ali Banisadr. Organized by the Katonah Museum of Art (KMA), this exhibition encompasses nearly twenty years of the artist’s singular practice, from 2006 to the present, across the mediums of painting, drawing, and printmaking. Sculpture, a new direction for the artist, will be presented for the first time. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with critical essays by Dr. Gražina Subelytė, Associate Curator, Peggy Guggenheim Collection; Dr. Bill Sherman, Director, The Warburg Institute, University of London; and Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe, Director, Katonah Museum of Art. It will also feature a transcribed conversation with the artist and noted art historian Robert Storr, and a fully illustrated plate section.
"al-kīmīā", 2025,Lithograph in seven colors on Rives BFK paper,Paper and image 14 ¾ x 11 inches / 37.5 x 28 cm
Edition of 60 plus 20 artist proofs and 3 printers proofs, Printed at ULAE studio, New York, Published by Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
Chiaroscuro: A Century of Charcoal brings together works by over 30 artists made over the past 100 years. Charcoal is elemental. Born from fire, charcoal is made from wood (especially twigs of willow or vine) that has been heated to a high temperature in a low-oxygen environment (a process called pyrolysis). Its history as a medium is as old as human mark-making itself: the earliest artists, crouched in caves, dragged charred sticks across stone to summon animals and ancestors from the walls.
Sara Anstis, Ali Banisadr, María Berrío, David Bomberg, Pierre Bonnard, Peppi Bottrop, Vivian Caccuri, Emily Coan, Willem de Kooning, Lucian Freud, Adrian Ghenie, Jake Grewal, Scott Hunt, Chantal Joffe, Allan Kaprow, William Kentridge, Idris Khan, R.B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Konstantina Krikzoni, Whitfield Lovell, Arieh Lubin, Anna Park, Celia Paul, Paula Rego, Jenny Saville, Aurel Schmidt, Shahzia Sikander, Barbara Walker, Olly Williamson, Alexandre Zhu
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist sat down with the painter Ali Bansiadr to discuss Pamuk’s newly published collection of illustrated notebooks.
We visited Iranian-American painter Ali Banisadr in his Brooklyn studio and entered a world with many worlds inside.
Ali Banisadr was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner in his studio in Brooklyn, New York, in March 2024.
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2024
Publish Date: May 18, 2021
Format: Hardcover
Category: Art - Individual Artists - Monographs
Publisher: Rizzoli Electa
Trim Size: 10 x 12
Pages: 344
An in-depth podcast conversation on the artist's big influences, from Sufi poetry to Hieronymus Bosch. Hosted by Ben Luke.
From the earliest uses of lapis lazuli in Ancient Egypt, through the Renaissance when the semi-precious stone was used to create ultramarine, a colour so venerated it was reserved to represent the Virgin and denote her heavenly robes, to Picasso's Blue Period and Yves Klein's patented IKB, blue has occupied a special place in visual culture.
Registration details released on Wednesday 24 February, 12pm GMT
Video of live conversation with special guest Ali Banisadr and host David Anfam to discuss creative life in the context of our new social reality. This gathering will conclude with a poetry reading by a member of our staff.
With his first German solo show at Blain|Southern Berlin open until 17 November, the New York-based artist discusses using drawings to make sense of his intense childhood in Iran and sound being a guiding force
