Aman Aheer

Aman Aheer (b.1992) lives and works in London. Traversing several different media including oil, metal, and stitch, and incorporating both found objects and organic materials, Aheer’s practice considers the intersections of violence, intimacy, and the precarity of the everyday. His work draws on the symbolism and iconography found across religious traditions in order to reflect on the apparent inability to represent or make figurative the divine. He is particularly interested in how ubiquitous materials like string, metal, or excrement can become sacred. Aman situates his practice in painting but try to recover the diverse trajectories of its tradition; weaving into the surfaces of the works; disrupting areas of flatness and deft moments of pattern with crude, drawing-like mark making, and combining seemingly opposing or paradoxical materials.

He received his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Recent solo exhibitions include Twin, Chapter 6, Shanghai 2024; body double, indigo + madder, London 2023; and, Man is Not a Bird, St. Peter’s Church, Cambridge 2022. Selected group exhibitions include Item Number, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles 2023; Hope, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George 2022; The Glass Bead Game, MAMOTH, London 2021; and, Moving Throughlines, Seymour Gallery, Vancouver 2020. Aheer’s public sculpture The Middle produced in collaboration with King’s College London, will be installed on the Strand in the autumn of 2024.