AsmaKian

Works

Every painting, in one place.

Work made between 2022 and 2026. Every painting has a page of its own.

2026

A bald head and shoulders against a hot magenta ground. The left half of the face is bruised violet and the right half is scraped to bare white, with the features dragged away by the knife.
Half LightOil on canvas
An open red mouth seen close up, teeth apart, holding a live goldfish inside a bubble of water. The ground behind is loose coral, pink and pale blue.
Held BreathOil on canvas
A square canvas of soft overlapping fields: ochre and gold across the top, deep pink and violet down the right, pale blue and white through the lower left, with two translucent squares laid over the middle where the colours mix.
InterferenceOil on canvas
A rider on a bucking brown horse, painted in full colour, surrounded by flat cobalt blue outlines of four other riders being thrown in every direction.
Eight SecondsOil and acrylic on canvas
A black bull with a blue sheen standing side on against a flat red ground, head turned toward the viewer, white socks above black hooves.
Bull, Red GroundAcrylic on canvas

2025

A grey face with closed eyes floating on bare paper. The jaw thins into two long black drips that run to the bottom of the sheet.
DissolveInk and acrylic on paper
A wide blue and brown canvas in which a face is drawn over itself several times. Eyes look out from different heights, tied together by pale ribbons that loop through the whole head.
Four Ways of SeeingOil on canvas
Seven horses walking in a line across pale sand, in white, grey, chestnut and black. Behind them a flat green band, and above that the Dubai skyline under heavy grey cloud.
Seven, LeavingOil on canvas

2024

A tumbler of whisky over ice with a cigar resting across the rim, lit from behind so the glass glows amber against a smoky red and black ground.
NightcapOil on canvas

2023

A dancer in a pale blue tutu at the top of a lift, both arms open and head tipped back. The skirt breaks into brushstrokes of turquoise and cream that carry on into the background.
AdagioOil on canvas

2022

A woman lying asleep inside a large open scallop shell on a shore at dusk, dark hair loose, a length of pale cloth across her legs. The sea is behind her on the left.
Venus, RestingOil on canvas