Hanie Soltani

Hanie Soltani (b. 1992) is a Tehran-based versatile figurative painter who lives and works in Tehran. Soltani's work delves into the complex narratives of identity, memory, and the human condition, often through a deeply personal lens. Her paintings explore the intersections of contemporary Iranian culture and broader global themes, capturing the nuanced emotional imagery of her subjects.

I work simultaneously across several projects, drawing on the color sensibilities and compositional logic of Iranian painting while engaging with figurative Western traditions. I am interested in painting from people and the traces they leave: bodies, objects and interiors that register everyday life and the effects of human presence. Through layered color, pattern and texture I try to impose a measured attention, a kind of control, on a world that feels loud and chaotic. My paintings move between the observed and the imagined. Some works grow from direct study of the body and still life; others assemble unreal, diaristic compositions shaped by personal and social experience. Fragmented figures and hybrid environments create liminal spaces where memory, desire and social constraint meet. Ultimately I am making a personal vocabulary for thinking about painting, the body and the material world, one that is rooted in tradition but resolutely contemporary.