Contemporary artist Nicky Nodjoumi (b. 1942, Kermanshah, Iran) has used painting as his primary medium while exploring the relationship between power and violence for over 40 years. Nodjoumi participated in Iran’s political revolution and as a result was expelled from the country leading him to become a major driver in building a profound, political body of works taking social power structure and violence as its subject. Nodjoumi’s works are in several prominent institutional collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum in London, Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi, and elsewhere. Major exhibitions of the artist’s work include those at the LA County Museum of Art (2018); Metropolitan Museum of Art (2015); and Cleveland Museum of Art (2014).

Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D., has curated the exhibitions John Everett Millais (Tate Britain, Van Gogh Museum), Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde (Tate Britain and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC), and River Crossings (Olana and Cedar Grove, Hudson and Catskill, New York). He is a co-author of the monograph Cecily Brown (Phaidon, 2020), and a Senior Writer and Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.