Y.Z. Kami (b. 1956 Tehran, Iran) is a painter who lives and works in New York. His work has been the subject of several exhibitions both in the United States and abroad including at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (2003), Arthur M. Sacker Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington (2008), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2016-17) and Museum de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in Spaing (2022-23). Kami’s work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and British Museum, London, among others.
