Rosa Boshier González

Rosa Boshier González is a writer and editor from Los Angeles. Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in publications including Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, the Believer, The Guardian, Guernica, Hyperallergic, Joyland, Flash Art International, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times, Ploughshares, The Rumpus, and the Washington Post. She is the recipient of a 2024 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She has taught writing and art history at the California Institute of the Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, and the Pacific Northwest College of Art. She teaches creative writing at Rice University.

Hayv Kahraman’s exhibition The Foreign in Us at the Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University in Houston is framed by an Audre Lorde quote: “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” Kahraman was born in Baghdad and raised in Sweden after moving there as a refugee. The exhibition focuses on paintings and drawings from the last five years of Kahraman’s work.
Hayv Kahraman, Entanglements with torshi no. 2, 2022. Oil and torshi on linen. 70 x 70 inches. Courtesy the artist and Moody Center for the Arts.
Whether mapping universal evil or the messy terrain of his own mind, he understood that an examination of society is always, even in small part, an examination of self.
Philip Guston, Talking, 1979. Oil on canvas, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy Hauser & Wirth / photograph © The Museum of Modern Art, licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY.

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