Vian Sora is an Iraqi born painter who was raised in Baghdad. She received a BS from Al Mansour University in 2000 and studied printmaking at the Istanbul Museum of Graphic Art (IMOGA) in Istanbul, Turkey. Sora’s paintings have been presented in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including the Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD), Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA), and the Speed Art Museum (Louisville, KY).  She will have her first traveling museum survey show at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Speed Art Museum, and the Asia Society Texas staring in 2025.

Photo by Mindy Best.