The artist's largest institutional show to date at the ICA San Francisco confronts the legacy of colonialism in botany. Hayv Kahraman, Love Me Love Me Not Date (2023). Courtesy of the artist, Jack ...

In this interview, Kahraman shares the series she is currently working on, called Anti-Body, which explores what it means to be immune. “Is the body a fortress, untouchable, or impenetrable to ...

Hayv Kahraman’s “Ghost Fires” is at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York through October 25. © Hayv Kahraman. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery ...

Vielmetter Los Angeles is thrilled to present Hayv Kahraman’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, Libations, on view through March 21st, 2026. A child of the Kurdish diaspora, Hayv Kahraman ...

With their coiffed black hair, almond-shaped eyes, and scarlet lips, the women in Hayv Kahraman’s paintings are all beautiful. Yet the exquisitely detailed works are as devastating as they are ...

Hayv Kahraman, “Not Quite Human 1” (2019), oil on linen, 60 1/4 x 90 3/8 x 2 1/8 inches (all images courtesy of the artist) “She” is a nude female figure, the protagonist in Hayv Kahraman’s work. In a ...

In 1991, when the Baghdad-born artist Hayv Kahraman was ten, she was part of the mass exodus of Kurds fleeing Iraq to escape Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime. She remembers sitting in a car with her ...

Hayv Kahraman is an American and Iraqi artist known for her work as a painter. Her art explores themes of violence, fractured identities, border and boundaries, gender and body politics, migration, ...

In 1991, when the Baghdad-born artist Hayv Kahraman was ten, she was part of the mass exodus of Kurds fleeing Iraq to escape Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime. She remembers sitting in a car with her ...