Arghavan is Super Sureal

Arghavan Khosravi was raised in Tehran, Iran. She graduated from Islamic Azad University with a Bachelor of Graphic Design and completed an MFA in illustration at the University of Tehran. After practicing in both fields for nearly a decade, she came to the U.S. to pursue her life-long dream of becoming a painter. She enrolled at Rhode Island School of Design after completing a post-baccalaureate program in studio art at Brandeis University. Khosravi’s vibrant works on paper probe both personal and political experiences by integrating historical Persian motifs from her native Iran with imagery taken from popular culture and contemporary media. As a reaction to the U.S. President’s Muslim travel ban, she began working on a series of paintings that incorporate her Iranian passport as their foundation, replete with situations, objects and characters that demand a narrative only the viewer can provide.

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