At first glance minimal, Sheree Hovsepian (b. 1974) incorporates a wide breadth of mediums into her neutral color palette by melding photography, wood, clay, fiber, ink, paint, paper and found materials into compositions that investigate identity, location, sacred symmetry, materiality, light, shadow and form. In an interview with the Artist Profile Archive in 2020, the artist shared how her own life experiences have shaped her work and vice versa. “Some of the themes that I find recurring in my work are ideas of location, the ideas of a studio being a center for ideas and transgression and locating myself within a space. I grew up as an immigrant from Iran in Northwest Ohio where I was constantly aware of my presence and my body within a larger space, being different. And I find that I’m constantly trying to locate myself or position myself within a space, and that space for me has become a studio space quite often.”

Born in Isfahan, Iran, Sheree Hovsepian creates dynamic assemblages, videos, photography, installations, drawings and paintings that have been collected or exhibited by institutions internationally, at venues such as the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Drawing Center, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv and forthcoming this spring, the 59th International Venice Biennale.