OCTOBER 10, 2025 – JANUARY 18, 2026 Speed Art Museum is proud to announce Vian Sora: Outerworlds, a multi-venue, mid-career survey of painter Vian Sora (b. 1976, Baghdad). Organized jointly with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Asia Society Texas

Asia Society Texas (AST) is proud to announce Vian Sora: Outerworlds, a multi-venue mid-career survey of internationally renowned abstract painter Vian Sora (b. 1976, Baghdad). Organized jointly with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, this exhibition will assemble approximately 20 of

Ep.219 Vian Sora (b. 1976, Baghdad, Iraq) has lived and worked in Louisville, Kentucky since 2009. She received a BS from Al Mansour University in Baghdad, Iraq in 2000 and studied printmaking at the Istanbul Museum of Graphic Art (IMOGA)

Artists have long used their practice to cope with, confront, and tease out traumas and fears. Exposure Therapy  presents the ways that art can soothe our anxieties, from the existential to the mundane. Presenting a range of artwork and mediums, the

The Voices on Art podcast continues this week with an interview with the Iraqi-American painter Vian Sora, anticipating her solo presentation with David Nolan Gallery at Independent New York 2024. Now based in Louisville, Kentucky, Sora grew up in Baghdad,

Contemporary artist, Vian Sora, and Tyler Blackwell, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum, will engage in a conversation exploring the complex narratives and contrasting relationship between abstraction and realism interwoven throughout Sora’s work and her practice. More Here

In our American show, leading galleries from five continents show significant works by masters of Modern and contemporary art, as well as the new generation of emerging stars.  More Here

David Nolan Gallery is delighted to announce Vian Sora: End of Hostilities, the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York, on view from October 26 through December 9, 2023. The exhibition will include both paintings and works on paper, primarily made

Vian Sora (b. Baghdad, Iraq, 1976) received a BS from Al Mansour University in Baghdad, Iraq in 2000, and an MBA from Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky in 2012. She also studied printmaking at the Istanbul Museum of Graphic Art

Sora prides herself in being a self-taught artist, currently working in Louisville, Kentucky, who has received degrees in computer science and an MBA. She studied printmaking under the tutelage of Suleyman Tekcan at the Istanbul Museum of Graphic Arts (IMOGA). Sora’s