Iliad Sabchi

I am an abstract painter born in Tabriz and based in Ankara.

For me, painting is not about image or composition. It is an encounter. A way to stay present with what feels unresolved, unspoken, and essential.

I work primarily with acrylic, building surfaces slowly through layers. Each painting records a process of hesitation and decision, pressure and release. I do not begin with a fixed idea. The work reveals itself through attention, patience, and risk.

I am interested in reduction — in removing what is unnecessary until the surface carries weight and clarity at the same time. Light, tension, and silence are elements I return to often.

I do not paint to decorate a space. I paint to test my own honesty.

2007-2009: MFA in painting from Kala-Bhavan/Visva Bharati university, Santiniketan, India
2000-2005: BFA in painting from Tabriz Azad University, Iran

2023: Caddebostan Cultural Center , Istanbul,
Türkiye
2018: Fassounaki Art Gallery, Tabriz
Kabood Gallery, Tabriz, Iran
Kokrajhar Collage of music and fine
arts, Assam, India
2016: 20th Annual Festival of Alternative
Art, organized by ACCEA/NPAK.
Yerevan-Armenia.
2014: Masan Art fair , South Korea
2013: Namboo International Art Festival -
Dagu - South Korea
2013: Chandong Gallery - Masan - South
Korea
2010: Iranian Contemporary Exhibition at
Ganges Art Gallery – Kolkata – India
Azerbaijan Contemporary art
exhibition in Tehran art center .
2009: Samokal Art Gallery ,Kolkata, India
Annual exhibition of Kala-Bhavan in
Kolkata- India
2008: Yasami Gallery - Tabriz - Iran
2007: Nandan Gallery ,Santiniketan - India
2005: Saba House Gallery -Tehran
2004: Yasami Gallery – Tabriz - Iran
Barg Gallery – Tehran - Iran
Behzad Gallery (installation) –
Tabriz
Aria Gallery- Tehran- Iran
2003: Yasami Gallery (Art and Cultural
Center -Tabriz)
Behzad Gallery –Tabriz
2002: Mir Ali Tabrizi Gallery (Art and
Cultural ce...