ABDOLREZA AMINLARI

EXPO CHICAGO
April 9 -12, 2026

Stand 128
Navy Pier, Chicago

Through geometric abstraction and hand embroidery, Abdolreza Aminlari explores domestic labor through the lens of lived experience. The angular forms present throughout his embroidered works on paper are based on recollections of the animals, symbols, and patterns in the Persian textiles of his childhood. His works defy easy categorization, opening onto multiple interpretations, outside of a singular culture or context. In emphasizing the unfixed and subjective aspects of personal memory, Aminilari’s “in-between shapes” speak to a larger diasporic experience and the nature of nostalgia itself.

ABDOLREZA AMINLARI (b. 1979, Tehran) currently lives and works in New York. He received his BFA from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit. Aminlari has had solo exhibitions at Situations Gallery (New York, NY), Andrew Rafacz Gallery (Chicago, IL), O Gallery (Tehran, Iran), Longhouse Projects (New York, NY), and Taymour Grahne Gallery (New York, NY). Recent group exhibitions include Smart Museum of Art (Chicago, IL), Marinaro Gallery (New York, NY) Halsey McKay Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), BravinLee Projects (South Street Seaport, NY), Club Rhubarb (New York, NY), Van Doren Waxter, (New York, NY), and Tyler Parks Presents (Los Angeles, CA). Aminlari's work has received reviews in The Wall Street Journal, ARTnews, BBC Persian, and Art Asia Pacific. His work is included in numerous private and public collections including the Smart Museum of Art (Chicago, IL), Flint Institute of Art, (Flint, MI), and Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, New York).