My works engage the human body and may rest on walls, hang suspended, or take hybrid forms. I describe them as couture sculpture: objects that adapt to and interact with their surroundings, informed by fashion, custom-making, and meticulous handwork rather than standardized production. I work without sketches, shaping materials through dyeing, drilling, molding, coiling, rubbing, and stretching. Traditional craft techniques emerge in unexpected ways, including adapted needle-felting and coiling with unconventional materials. Repurposed objects sit alongside organic materials, allowing different histories and forms to coexist within a single work.—Nima Jeizan
About the artist
Raised in Tehran and Virginia, New York-based artist Nima Jeizan blends inherited traditions with contemporary practice. Across sculpture, craft, fashion, and performance, Jeizan works with materials ranging from pistachio shells and dried pomegranates to wood, horsehair, brass, leather, and glass—objects that carry the histories of exile and belonging. Through deconstruction, mending, and transformation, Jeizan creates forms that exist between the living and lamented, the natural and artificial, and familiar and foreign. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth
University, and is an alum of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
