Minoo Yalsohrabi

Minoo Yalsohrabi (b. 1992, Tabriz, Iran) is an Iranian artist whose paintings thoughtfully explore the relationship between body, form and function through their interplay and movement. With a Master’s degree in Painting from Tehran University of Art and a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from Tabriz Azad University, Yalsohrabi’s formal education deeply influences her precise attention to detail and careful compositional strategies. 
Yalsohrabi’s visual language balances figuration and abstraction, material and immaterial, interior and exterior. At the heart of her work lies a preoccupation with how bodily presence, movement and the trace of subjects affect the structure and sensibility of a painting. Human gestures in her compositions do not simply shape the image—they carry the memory of repeated actions, silences and suppressed experiences that evade direct narration. The figurative is often implied rather than overtly rendered, as the artist avoids depicting the human figure directly, focusing instead on the residual presence of the body through marks and tensions left on the surface.
The studio and the surrounding material environment play an essential role in shaping the work; her practice often emerges from a sensitive engagement with the physical context in which she paints.
Objects, particularly everyday items like flowers or cucumbers among other things, often recur in her paintings; not only as aesthetic motifs, but as agents of embodied experience. These repeated forms sometimes take on a decorative quality, but this ornamentation is never superficial: it functions as a coded language—sometimes ironic, sometimes critical—always linked to the broader questions of memory, agency, and the intimate politics of visibility. In certain works, the repetition of objects becomes a deliberate strategy to challenge assumed function or meanings, creating entry points for humor or critique.
Yalsohrabi has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Iran and the United States, and her work has been featured in international art fairs such as KIAF SEOUL (2024) and Contemporary Istanbul (2023).

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