About

Ali Kaeini is an Iranian artist whose work explores displacement and historical identity. Drawing from Iranian history, craft, and architecture, his practice engages memory, forgetfulness, war, power, and solitude. He creates intricate geometric structures intertwined with organic, spiral forms, often departing from traditional techniques in a deliberately subversive manner. His suspended paintings construct spatial environments that function as both barriers and passageways, where each work operates as an independent landscape and a wall in relation to others.

Kaeini earned his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2023. He has received the MacDowell Fellowship, VMFA Professional Award, Hamiltonian Fellowship, and the VCCA Artist of Color Fellowship, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His work has been exhibited across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East, including at Nika Project Space, Paris; DDDD, New York; Delgosha Gallery, Tehran; and VMOCA. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.