Kour Pour b. 1987

Pour opened his first solo museum exhibition at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, in 2025-2026, where three major paintings explored how different cultures envision the cosmos. He debuted his celebrated Porcelain paintings in 2026, employing erasure as a generative tool to explore the circulation of ceramic motifs and cobalt blue pigment. He gained early recognition for his Carpet paintings, rendering vibrant patterns over carefully prepared canvases. The carpet would later serve as a framework for Pour to layer multiple visual traditions together, a format he would transgress in his shaped canvases that reconsider familiar histories of abstraction. 

Beyond his studio practice, Pour maintains a multidisciplinary engagement in community building. He operates Guest House, a project space he founded in 2022 in his studio complex to support immigrant and diaspora artists with exhibitions, residencies, and public programs.

Kour Pour earned his BFA from Otis College of Art and Design (2010). He has exhibited in museums and galleries across North America, Europe, and Asia, including solo exhibitions at Kotaro Nukaga, Tokyo (2026), Aga Khan Museum, Toronto (2025), Nazarian/Curcio, Los Angeles (2025), Gallery 1957, London (2022), Kavi Gupta, Chicago (2021), Shrine and Sargent’s Daughters, New York (2021) and others. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Henry Art Gallery, Cantor Arts Center, Orlando Museum of Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum and elsewhere. His work is collected by the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Hood Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum, The Bunker Artspace, Art Jameel Collection, Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation, and Yageo Foundation, among other collections. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

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