Y.Z. Kami

Born:
1956
Residence:
New York, New York, USA
Nationality:
American
Trust:
APT New York
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  • For many artists, building castles in the sky would be a fair way to describe retirement planning

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  • Thirty years ago at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, curator Maurice Tuchman organized an exhibition that explored the intersection of art and spirituality.

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  • On March 2, 2017, as part of its Contemporary Curated sale in New York, during Armory Week, Sotheby’s will be offering the very first public sale of works from the Artist Pension Trust® (APT) Collection. APT was founded in 2004 as a mutual assurance program providing long-term financial security for its member artists who deposit artworks with the trust over a 20-year period, and share the net proceeds from the sales. With 13,000 works, by 2,000 member artists, it is the largest private collection of global contemporary art in the world.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • Six New Artist’s Records Achieved: Sohrab Sepehri, Nasrollah Afjei, Bahman Mohasses, Y. Z. Kami, Jeffar Khaldi, Fouad Elkhoury

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  • The market for contemporary art from a wide range of Middle Eastern countries has been rapidly expanding in recent years, both in concentrated regions there as well as in the U.S. and Europe.

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BIOGRAPHY

Y.Z. Kami was born in Tehran, Iran in 1956, and lives and works in New York. His work has been collected and exhibited by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, and many other institutions worldwide. Solo museum exhibitions have been presented at Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (2003); Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (2008); Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London (2008); and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2009–10). His work was included in the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007, curated by Robert Storr).


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