Biography

During his decades-long career, Siah Armajani has produced a nuanced and wide-ranging body of work that includes sculpture, public art, painting, drawing, and conceptual projects. He is best known for outdoor gardens, gazebos, plazas, and bridges, works that exist at the intersection of art, community, and site and explore what the “public” in public art really means. Less known are his studio sculptures, which combine social and political content with forms adapted from the vernacular architecture of rural America, Bauhaus design, and Russian Constructivism, among others. All of his works speak directly to an American experience of immigration—something Armajani, as a native of Iran and now a resident of Minnesota, knows well.