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SONA MIRZAEI

Sona Mirzaei is a multi-disciplinary artist from Los Angeles, CA. Sona studied at the Florence Academy of Art and learned many abilities to propel her art career further. She has been featured in the Huffington Post and Miami Living Magazine, Vegas to LA recently as a celebrated artist.

Internationally awarded Artist of the Year by the London International Creative Competition in 2014, and by Art for Progress in New York City, and as an LA winner for Scope Art Basel Bombay Gin with Rush Philanthropic and featured artist with Saatchi art gallery as well.

Her body of work include large scale abstract paintings, collage- mixed media, pop art, street art, public art, and sculptures. Sona's approach to art is culturally rich, bold, daring, while evoking a gentleness. Sona conceptualism is as much street art as poetry, beckoning us with seeming self-help earnestness to “just be you,” “whatever it takes,” “who cares,” and “do epic shit.” But it is in the realm of form-and-color-as-form-and-color that Mirzaei nestles most comfortably – and takes off in many directions.

She achieves great depth and contrast with use of her brush work, creating paintings with dynamic layers and texture, manifesting dimensions, liveliness, and joy. Diversity and culture define her work and bridges her outlook on life with the creative expression of many interests that serves to be a motivation and force in her life. Art and color create energy that provokes an emotional reaction that is meaningful and organic to humanity. She says, “without our imaginations, we are nothing”, and this ails Sona every day to create and keep society inspired.

Her work has been widely exhibited throughout California, Art Basel Miami, Saatchi Gallery in London, Dubai, Europe. Including the Asian Civilization Museum of Art in Singapore, Milton Museum in Massachusetts, the Tokyo National Museum of Art in 2019, and most recently with the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum in 2021. As well as being featured on TV shows, KTLA News, FOX, Million Dollar Listings on Bravo, The Morning Show, Beverly Hills Housewives, etc., in many magazines, collected by high-profile patrons, executives, and celebrities, in a leading multi-million-dollar homes all over the world! She has corporate sponsorships with Air France, Wells Fargo, The Ritz Carlton, Bombay Gin, etc. for various art projects throughout her career to for these extraordinary creations and achievements.

A statement by Los Angeles based art critic, Peter Frank:

“Sona is certainly an artist of our times. She seems almost literally to whip her abstract paintings into shape. The results of her furious brush-wielding are roiled surfaces and foreign materials brought to a sudden, almost revelatory visual coherency, exciting to witness. In Sona works, the painting is the place, the paint is the thing, the thingness of the place is the point. The canvas may be encrusted with paint, but its resulting objecthood is not its prime raison d’être; its space, so much immateriality wrested from so much materiality, is. Neither your eye nor the myriad prominent painterly incidents get lost in the web of infinitude, but they do get untethered. A mark in Mirzaei’s universe is a glowing cipher, a morsel of space dust but a special one, loaded with potential, prepared to do epic shit on the most epic scale.”