Ashkan Sepahvand

Ashkan Sepahvand is an artist, writer, and researcher. He was born in Tehran, Iran, grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and lives always somewhere in-between. His practice touches words. He works with figures and gestures between the archive and the repertoire. Projects move across drawing, performance, publication, and regularly involve long-term collaborations. Together with Natascha Sadr Haghighian, he co-founded the institute for incongruous translation. Currently, he is a Junior Researcher in Fine Art at St. John’s College. Previously, he has held positions at HKW Berlin, where he co-edited “Textures of the Anthropocene: Grain, Vapor, Ray” (MIT Press, 2015), and at the Schwules Museum, where he curated the 2017 exhibition “Odarodle – an imaginary their_story of nature peoples, 1535-2017.” His writing has appeared in Ibraaz, Qalqalah, PHILE Magazine, Radical History Review, and e-flux, while his work has been presented at documenta 13, Sharjah Biennial, Ashkal Alwan, ICA VCU, Eastside Projects, and nGbK, amongst others.