Shahpari Rahmani Iran, b. 1983

Overview
Shahpari Rahmani

Shahpari Rahmani is an Iranian painter whose work maps the psychic terrain of contemporary life through a highly textural, expressive visual language. Rooted in her formal training at Alzahra University—where she earned degrees in Graphic Design, Painting, and a Master’s in Painting—Rahmani's practice threads together material rigor with an acute sensitivity to cultural memory.

 

Working primarily in acrylic and mixed media on canvas, Rahmani builds chromatic, atmospheric fields that oscillate between abstraction and figuration. Her surfaces carry the imprint of layered gestures, unruly marks, and spectral silhouettes, evoking states of uprising, rupture, and renewal. Across her paintings, the figure often appears dissolved or reconstituted—an emblem of both vulnerability and insistence.

 

Rahmani’s work has been exhibited across Tehran, including presentations at Ginos Gallery, Farhangsarai Ferdous Gallery, and Milad Tower Gallery. Her recent pieces extend her ongoing inquiry into the body as a site of transformation, questioning how personal and collective narratives are shaped, obscured, or reclaimed through gesture. Rahmani positions painting as an arena where memory, myth, and interior life converge. Her canvases stand as charged thresholds, inviting viewers into spaces where emotion becomes material and where visibility itself becomes an act of agency.

Works
  • Shahpari Rahmani, And That's How You Stay, 2023
    Shahpari Rahmani
    And That's How You Stay, 2023
    Acrylic on canvas
    57 1/8 x 35 3/8 in.
    (145 x 90 cm)
  • Shahpari Rahmani, And That's How You Stay, 2020
    Shahpari Rahmani
    And That's How You Stay, 2020
    Acrylic on canvas
    27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.
    (70 x 100 cm)
  • Shahpari Rahmani, And That's How You Stay, 2020
    Shahpari Rahmani
    And That's How You Stay, 2020
    Acrylic on canvas
    39 3/8 x 47 1/4 in.
    (100 x 120 cm)
Exhibitions