Collection: Taher Asad-Bakhtiari

Taher Asad-Bakhtiari (B. 1982, Tehran) is a self-taught artist whose practice focuses on, but is no limited to, objects, textiles and experiences. After studying multimedia and management in Canada and Switzerland, Taher opened a creative agency in Tehran and later New York City. He has developed several bodies of work including “The Tribal Weave Project”, a multi-tiered and ongoing reimagination of tribal artifacts, and “recovered barrels”, a metaphorical conceptualization of crude oil containers, Taher lives in New York.