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KOUR POUR
Born 1987, Exeter, England
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
2010
BFA Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2022
New Homes, New Places, Gallery 1957, London, UK
2021
Familiar Spirits, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, USA
Wild Garden, Shrine/Sargent’s Daughters, New York, USA
2020
Fallow, The Club, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Returnee, The Club, Tokyo, Japan
Manzareh/Keshiki/Landscape, Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, USA
2018
Abrash, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, USA
Polypainting, Gnyp Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Polypainting, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China
2016
Onnagata, Feuer/Mesler, New York, USA
Onnagata, Gnyp Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015
Samsara, Depart Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
2014
Ozymandias, Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland
UNTITLED, New York, USA
Group Exhibitions
2022
Flowers of Time, Hongwanji Dendoin, Kyoto, Japan
2021
A Boundless Drop to a Boundless Ocean, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, USA
2020
Glitch: Art and Technology Exhibitions, Margo Veillon Gallery, AUC Tahrir Square, The American University, Cairo, Egypt
2019
LA Painting, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, USA
Centennial: 100 Years of Otis College Alumni, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, USA
2018
Mossavar-Nameh, Dastan’s Basement, Tehran, Iran
2017
Decoration Never Dies, Anyway, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum, Tokyo, Japan Horror Vacui, or The Annihilation of Space, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
Earthquakes and The Mid Winter Burning Sun, Kazuo Shiraga & Kour Pour, Ever Gold Projects, San Fransisco, CA
2016
Labyrinth(s), Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China
2015
Painting Show – Part One, Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich, Germany
From Above, Di Donna, New York, NY
2014
The Go Between, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
2012
In The Making, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
Wet Paint 4, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Publications
2021
A Boundless Drop to a Boundless Ocean, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, USA. Essay by Dr Shiva Balaghi.
2019
Kour Pour. Published by Skira, Milan, Italy. Essays by Dr. Shiva Balaghi, Masako Tanaka, and Alex Bacon.
Kour Pour, Returnee. Published by The Club, Tokyo, Japan.
2017
Decoration never dies, Anyway. Published by the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, in conjunction with the exhibition, Decoration never dies, Anyway at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Essays by Toyojiro Hida, Kasumi Yamaki, and Masako Tanaka.
Re-inventing Abstraction 1910-1925. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Earthquakes and The Mid Winter Burning Sun, at Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, USA.
2016
Artists’ Recipes. Published by Bolo Publishing, Basel, Switzerland. Admir Jahic and Comenius Roethlisberger.
2015
Kour Pour. Published by Nero in conjunction with the exhibition Samsara at Depart Foundation, Los Angeles, USA. Essay by Nicola Ricciardi
Public + Private Collections
Art Jameel Collection, UAE
Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation, Bangladesh
Orange County Museum of Art, USA
Perez Art Museum Miami, USA
The Bunker Artspace, USA
Yageo Foundation, Taiwan