Vian Sora: Noosphere
Independent New York 2024
David Nolan Gallery

Following recent acquisitions by the Baltimore Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Shah Garg Foundation, and others -- and ahead of a 2025 traveling museum solo stopping at the Speed Museum and more -- the Iraqi-American painter Vian Sora (b. 1976, Baghdad; based in Louisville, Kentucky since 2009) will be presenting a new body of work with her gallery, David Nolan Gallery, at Independent New York.

Overall, the booth presentation, entitled Noosphere, furthers her practice's abstract, gestural distillation of her experience coming of age in Baghdad under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. Central to her work are themes of war, political upheaval, migration, and subsequent geographic and cultural displacement.

Learn more in the above-linked press release and brochure, and a preview of works on view is below. Image files with credit lines are in the above-linked Dropbox folder.