Yasi Alipour

Yasi Alipour is an Iranian artist/writer/folder based in Brooklyn. Her tactile works on paper use folding to explore mathematics as a language, with all the historical, social, political, mortal, and embodied ramifications any language holds. Alipour's solo exhibition "The Pleasures of Futile Cycles" is currently at 12 Gates Gallery (Philadelphia, PA). Her work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally. Her writing and interviews have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Spot Magazine, Asia Contemporary Art Week, Photograph Magazine, Volume One/Triple Canopy, and the Dear Dave. Alipour holds an MFA from Columbia University and is a faculty member at Columbia University, Parsons, and SVA.