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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Plots on Loan by Raymond Pettibon, Image 1.

    Raymond Pettibon

    Plots on Loan, 2020

    Lithograph on paper

    19.625 x 13.75 in (49.85 x 34.93 cm)

  2. The Award of Self by Chris Johanson, Image 1.

    Chris Johanson

    The Award of Self, 2009

    Acrylic on cast resin mounted to recycled wood base

    21 x 7 x 1.5 in (53.34 x 17.78 x 3.81 cm)

  3. Notebook Page - Neuse River by Robert Johnson, Image 1.

    Robert Johnson

    Notebook Page - Neuse River, 2001

    Watercolor and graphite on paper

    10.875 x 7.5 in (27.62 x 19.05 cm)

  4. Phil Reid

    Ebliette and her calves from Ayrshire Farm, Upperville, Virginia, 1987

    Gelatin silver print

    8.375 x 5.5714 in (21.27 x 14.15 cm)

  5. Farah Diba Pahlavi (Queen of Iran) by Andy Warhol, Image 1.

    Andy Warhol

    Farah Diba Pahlavi (Queen of Iran), 1976

    Polaroid

    4.25 x 3.375 in (10.8 x 8.57 cm)

  6. Untitled by Robert Motherwell, Image 1.

    Robert Motherwell

    Untitled, 1975

    Etching and aquatint on Buff Arches paper

    30.25 x 22 in (76.84 x 55.88 cm)

  7. D. Yellow by Justin Knowles, Image 1.

    Justin Knowles

    D. Yellow, 1971

    Screenprint on paper

    29.25 x 42.25 x 1.375 in (74.3 x 107.32 x 3.49 cm)

  8. Car In Winter, Seventh Avenue, N.Y.C. by Louis Stettner, Image 1.

    Louis Stettner

    Car In Winter, Seventh Avenue, N.Y.C., 1956

    Gelatin silver print

    26.5 x 20.125 in (67.31 x 51.12 cm)

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About the artist

Hayv Kahraman

Iraqi

b. 1981

Hayv Kahraman was born in Baghdad in 1981 and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. She attended the University of Umeå, Sweden, then studied art and design at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts. Kahraman has had recent solo exhibitions at institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (2024), Rice University Moody Center For The Arts, Houston (2024), SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2022), Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture, and Design, Honolulu, HI (2019), Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (2018), and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO (2017).

Kahraman’s work includes painting, performance, and sculpture and it explores themes of gender and body politics and migrant life. A recurring motif in her work is female figures whom she envisions as extensions of her body. Rather than being self-portraits, these women are intended to convey the collective experience of brown bodies existing within Eurocentric ideals. Kahraman draws upon her experience as a female Iraqi émigré; at age 11, Kahraman’s family fled to Sweden to escape the Gulf War. Her subjects are often disfigured in some way, representing underlying colonial histories and the sense of displacement and detachment facing refugees.