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 longterm collaborations. Together with Natascha Sadr Haghighian, they founded the institute for incongruous translation. Occasionally, he convenes with virgil b/g taylor as ssssSssssssss. Both configurations are ongoing frameworks for study and solidarity in diaspora. Currently, he is a Junior Researcher in Fine Art at St. John’s College, University of Oxford and holds a Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies Fellowship at the New York Public Library.