Born in Iran in 1962, Yari Ostovany moved to the United States at the age of 16. He pursued his artistic studies first at the University of Nevada – Reno, and later earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1995.
Ostovany’s work has been exhibited internationally, with shows in London, Paris, Berlin, Merten, Monaco-Ville, Bochum, Berg am Starnberger See, Cologne, Ferrara, Varenna, Umbria, Tehran, Toronto, New Delhi, and Dushanbe, as well as in numerous exhibitions across the United States.
He is the recipient of the Center for Cultural Innovation Grant, Sierra Arts Endowment Grant, Craig Sheppard Memorial Grant, and Sierra Nevada Arts Foundation Grant.
His work is in the permanent collections of the New Britain Museum of American Art (New Britain, Connecticut), Pasargad Bank Museum (Tehran, Iran), Château d’Orquevaux (Champagne-Ardenne, France), and the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art (Reno, Nevada). He is represented by the Foundation Behram Bakhtiar (Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France), Lansing Street Gallery (Mendocino, CA), Dakkara Art Gallery (Palm Beach, FL), and Noon Powell Fine Art (London, UK).
Recent solo exhibitions include The Yard: Columbus Circle (New York, NY), Joyce Gordon Gallery (Oakland, CA), Rebecca Molayem Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Radian Gallery (San Francisco, CA), and la Galerie du Génie de la Bastille (Paris, France).
Yari Ostovany currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.