Solo show
Hyundai Card First Look: Sheree Hovsepian
24 Apr 2026 — 31 Oct 2026 at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
· New York
Installation. Apr 24, 2026–Fall 2026.
Born in Iran and raised in the United States, Sheree Hovsepian recalls growing up with "a hyper awareness" of her body as "a politically charged location." This experience has continually shaped how she depicts the human figure.
The artist constructs bodies from fragments, assembling photographs of body parts — mostly her sister's, as a stand-in for the artist — into three-dimensional compositions. These works also incorporate ceramics, nylon hosiery, string, and wood. Hovsepian has said that she is drawn to materials that resist full control: "The materials have agency."
In Awoken (2018), stretched hosiery creates an opening across the surface, partially veiling the figure beneath. In Stranger on Display (2024), stacked walnut semicircles extend below a photographed back, echoing the vertebrae of the spine. In Rapport (2024), the image of an arm reaches outward from a ceramic torso.
Across these works, bodies appear in parts rather than as unified wholes — assembled, provisional, and deliberately unsettled.
Born in Iran and raised in the United States, Sheree Hovsepian recalls growing up with "a hyper awareness" of her body as "a politically charged location." This experience has continually shaped how she depicts the human figure.
The artist constructs bodies from fragments, assembling photographs of body parts — mostly her sister's, as a stand-in for the artist — into three-dimensional compositions. These works also incorporate ceramics, nylon hosiery, string, and wood. Hovsepian has said that she is drawn to materials that resist full control: "The materials have agency."
In Awoken (2018), stretched hosiery creates an opening across the surface, partially veiling the figure beneath. In Stranger on Display (2024), stacked walnut semicircles extend below a photographed back, echoing the vertebrae of the spine. In Rapport (2024), the image of an arm reaches outward from a ceramic torso.
Across these works, bodies appear in parts rather than as unified wholes — assembled, provisional, and deliberately unsettled.
About the artist
Sheree Hovsepian
1974
Sheree Hovsepian is an Iranian-born American artist. She primarily works in photography and collage, in addition to sculpture and drawing. Her work is often concerned with the human form and matters of identity. She is based in New York City, with houses in the Gramercy Park neighborhood and in…
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Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
· New York
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture…
