Pouran Jinchi (born 1959 in Mashhad, Iran) is an Iranian-American, New York-based artist. She is best known for her abstract, calligraphy-based contemporary visual art.

Biography

Pouran Jinchi borrows from her Iranian cultural traditions of literature and calligraphy to pursue her own aesthetic investigations. Trained as a calligrapher in

Mashad, Iran Mashhad ( fa, مشهد, Mašhad ), also spelled Mashad, is the second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. It serves as the capital of Razavi Khorasan Province and has a po ...

, Jinchi received a Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, from

George Washington University The George Washington University (GW or GWU) is a Private university, private University charter#Federal, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Chartered in 1821 by the United States Congress, GWU is the largest Higher educat ...

, Washington, DC in 1982, before studying Sculpture and Painting,

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California S ...

, California in 1989 and Studio Painting, Art Students League of New York, New York City in 1993. Jinchi's work often employs a mixture of calligraphy and abstract expressionism that intertwines Islamic geometry, Iranian traditions and contemporary aesthetics, with a unique lyricism. Her early Poetry paintings are both abstract and literal presentations of poems in which texts are morphed beyond recognition into flowing, anthropomorphic shapes. Having been trained in calligraphy, she finds the relation between words and forms, natural or non-objective, deeply intertwined. Jinchi's recent work reflects an increasingly detailed focus on the form of language as subject matter. Her calligraphy work is in

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

, but deconstructed and ineligible to read, even for native Persian-speakers. Jinchi has exhibited extensively and has had eight solo exhibitions in New York alone. Recent exhibitions include a two-person show at Frieze Art Fair, London (2011) and solo exhibitions at Art Projects International, New York (2012), The Third Line,

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(2010), the Leila Heller Gallery, New York (2011), and the Vilcek Foundation, New York (2008). Her work has also been exhibited at the

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, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brooklyn Museum and the

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. Jinchi was included in ''Iran Inside Out'' at the

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(2009) and most recently in ''New Blue and White'' at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2013). Her work is represented in major collections including the

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, New York;

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;

, New York; Farjam Collection, Dubai; Brooklyn Museum, New York;

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, Washington DC;

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, New York; and several major corporate collections.

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External links

Pouran Jinchi — artist's websiteArt Projects International: Pouran Jinchi artist pageMedia Farzin: ArteEastThe Third Line gallery
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jinchi, Pouran 1959 births Living people 20th-century Iranian women artists 21st-century Iranian women artists Iranian contemporary artists Iranian calligraphers Iranian women painters Artists from New York City Iranian emigrants to the United States George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture alumni Art Students League of New York alumni People from Mashhad Women calligraphers American artists of Iranian descent

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