Azita Panahpour

Azita Panahpour deconstructs language to create a gestural vocabulary. In her ongoing series Shattered Poems, she transforms Persian letterforms into abstraction, stripping them of their phonetic function and rebuilding on their aesthetic qualities. Expressed through steel sculptures and multilayered painted canvases, her work moves through rhythm, repetition, scale, and movement. Through abstraction and reinterpretation, she shifts language from something to be read to something to be felt.

A former art director in New York's advertising industry, Panahpour continues to explore the visual and poetic potential of letterforms. Her work is held in private and institutional collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in New York and Dubai.

2026 Islamic Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2026 Women in Art. Canvas to Capital, NYSE, New York
2025 Nature & Form, Sculptural Dialogues Across Time and
Place Leila Heller Gallery, New York
2024 Deck the Walls, Leila Heller Gallery, New York
2024 Edition Fair - Leila Heller Gallery
2024 ‘...I Kept The Night Vigil…’ Exploring Women’s Voices
Across & Beyond the ME, Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai
2023 The National Arts Club, New York, solo exhibition
2023 The Powerhouse Arts, MvVOART, top ten artist
2023 Breaking Barriers, Art from Iran, Sausalito Center
for the Arts, California
2022 Venice International Art Fair, Italy
2021 London Paint Club
2021 MvVOART, juried exhibition, Oculus
2020 The Other Art Fair LA 2020 (online)
2020 MvVOART juried exhibition, Oculus, New York
2018 Sotheby's, MvVOART juried exhibition
2018 The Other Art Fair Brooklyn
2017 The Other Art Fair Brooklyn