Join an Instagram Live talk featuring artist Ali Banisadr in conversation with Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe, vice president for global artistic programs and director of Asia Society Museum. Ali Banisadr will go live from his studio in New York to discuss his artistic practice, his work in Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians — The Mohammed Afkhami Collection, and more.

To watch, follow @AsiaSociety on Instagram and tune in at 10:30 a.m. New York time on November 5th. 

About the Artist

A painter of epic vistas and dazzling intricacies, Ali Banisadr creates complex, turbulent worlds whose syncopated rhythms corral a multitude of references from art history as well as allusions to our own turbulent times. In any single, expansive canvas one might sense the crystalline detail of the Persian miniature tradition, the muscular brushwork of Abstract Expressionism, the narrative dexterity of the early Dutch masters, the bravura technique of the Venetian Renaissance, or the libidinous glyphs of Surrealism, among others. Banisadr’s work is included in collections worldwide, including the British Museum, Centre Pompidou, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others. Banisadr lives and works in New York City.