Kourosh Amini

Kourosh Amini, is an abstract artist influenced by the early beginning of art, he explored the magic capabilities of abstraction in forms and symbols from all over the world with a specific attention to American Indian and African Art. His works have been seen in private and public exhibitions in Europe and the United States.



Kourosh Amini was born in Rabat, Morocco in 1969. By the age of fifteen he had lived on four continents. During these formative years, ten of which were spent in Paris, a personal vision was impressed.

Once Amini had settled into New York City in the 1980’s his work as a graphic artist and a painter began. In his travels in the U.S. he began to absorb those elements he saw in the arts of people indigenous to the Northwest, Southwest and Hawaii. He gained inspiration from his understanding of nature’s dynamic functionality expressed through abstraction in these early cultures.The inherent sentiment of the sacred in nature ennobled in tribal art has remained with Amini.

His many years spent living in urban settings, significantly New York City, surface in his paintings as a complexity of intricate relationships that suggest a verticality of forms constructed of flashing color and motion. The energy ...

Parsons School of Design, NY
Hunter College, NY
Western New Mexico University
Washington State University

Art Exhibitions:
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Finn's Gallery
Silver City, New Mexico
The Marrakesh Expression –
Summer 2017.

Western New Mexico University
Silver City, New Mexico
SPEAK OUT! Group Show –
BFA Exhibition Spring 2017.

The Laughing Horse Inn Gallery
Taos, New Mexico
Group Exhibition June 2014.

Vibrations Gallery
Silver City, New Mexico
The Happy Moon – Nov 2014.
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Gallery 89
Paris, France
Solo exhibition – Sept 2010.
​​Rose Hullman Institute Terre Haute, Indiana
Exhibition of Large Scroll Paintings – 2008-2010.

Seedboat Gallery Silver City, New Mexico
Recent Works – July 2008.

Gallery 400 Silver City, New Mexico
Mystic Rhythms – Summer 2006.

Ward-Nasse Gallery New York, New York
Art From The Heart – Group Show - Winter 1993.


Publications:
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Origins
98 Pages / Color – Self Published 2008. Available on amazon.com

Origins II
48 Pages / Color – Self Published 2010. Available on amazon.com

The Sounds of Origins
Audio CD – Self Published 2008.
Available on amazon.com

Colorama
100 Pages / 48 color plates –
Writings. Self Published 2016.
Available on lulu.com

Evolution!
68 Pages b&w – Writings.
Self Published 2013.
Available on lulu.com