KMA Traveling Exhibitions

Ali Banisadr (b. 1976 in Tehran, Iran. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY). These fragments I have shored against my ruins, 2023. Oil on linen, 86 x 180 in. (218.4 x 457.2 cm). Mohammed Afkhami Foundation. Photography by Genevieve Hanson. © Ali Banisadr 

Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist

Originally presented in 2025 at the Katonah Museum of Art and curated by Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe, Director and Chief Curator of the KMA, Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist is the first major museum survey of the Brooklyn-based Iranian-born artist Ali Banisadr. The exhibition encompasses nearly twenty years of the artist’s singular practice, from 2006 to the present, across the mediums of painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Through a partnership with the  Art Bridges Foundation, Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist will travel to museums across the United States, expanding access to diverse communities nationwide.
 

EXHIBITION SUPPORT

The exhibition and publication at the KMA were made possible with support from the Katherine C. and David E. Moore Exhibition Fund and The Director’s Circle of the Katonah Museum of Art: Paul Bird and Amy Parsons, Lisa Byala, Mike Davies, Isabelle Harnoncourt Feigen, Virginia L. Gold, Kirsti Kroener and Nicholas Kronfeld, Linda Nordberg, Yvonne S. Pollack, Rebecca Samberg, and Richard and Audrey Zinman. Additional support has been provided by the Berger Family Foundation, Tara and Jeffrey Coniaris, Padi and Jason Nazmiyal, Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, and the Ali Banisadr Exhibition Leadership Committee. In-kind support has been generously provided by Kasmin; Victoria Miro; Perrotin; Cristea Roberts Gallery, London; and Thaddaeus Ropac gallery.

The Katonah Museum of Art is proud to be supported by ArtsWestchester and Westchester County Government, and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.  

Support for this exhibition tour is provided by Art Bridges. 

Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist Exhibition Tour Schedule

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Fl 
April 11 – July 12, 2026 
https://mfastpete.org/

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
August 2026 – January 2027
https://www.pafa.org/ 

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 
January – June 2027 
https://www.brandeis.edu/rose/ 

Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC 
July 2027 – January 2028 
https://www.bechtler.org/