Yari Ostovany

Born in Iran in 1962, Yari Ostovany moved to the United States at the age of 16 and
pursued his studies in Art first at the University of Nevada - Reno and then at the San
Francisco Art institute where he received his MFA in 1995. He has exhibited extensively
in the United States and internationally, and is the recipient of Center For Cultural
Innovation, Sierra Arts Endowment, Craig Sheppard Memorial and Sierra Nevada Arts
Foundation Grants. Recent solo exhibitions include The Yard: Columbus Circle in New
York, Stanford Art Spaces at Stanford University, Joyce Gordon Gallery in Oakland,
Rebecca Molayem Gallery in Los Angeles and Radian Gallery in San Francisco.
His work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the New Britain
Museum of American Art (New Britain, Connecticut), Pasargad Bank Museum (Tehran,
Iran), Chateau d'Orquevaux (Champagne-Ardenne, France), Permanent Collection of
the University of Nevada - Reno Art Department and is represented by Foundation
Behram Bakhtiar in France, Ideel Art and Noon Powell Fine Art in London UK.
Yari Ostovany currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.