Event
Opening: Spatial Essays in Room 106
Real Art Ways presents Spatial Essays in Room 106, a solo exhibition by Hanieh Kashani.
Hanieh Kashani is an interdisciplinary and experimental artist from Tehran, Iran. While completing an MFA in Studio Art at the University of Connecticut, she met artist Peter Waite, who connected her with Real Art Ways.
In July 2025, Hanieh started working at Real Art Ways as a grant writer and assistant to our Executive Director, Will K. Wilkins. Early on, she set up a studio for her artistic practice in 56 Arbor. As the staff witnessed the dedication she put into her work at RAW, they became aware of the same care and thought she gave to what she was making upstairs.
Hanieh’s work examines how regimes of exclusion and imposed unity shape experiences of selfhood and otherness, rootedness and displacement. It is simultaneously thoughtful, provocative, and imaginative – which is why Real Art Ways will present an exhibition of Hanieh’s work in a pop-up show.
The exhibition will be installed for one week in Suite 106 at 56 Arbor Street in Hartford.
Real Art Ways will host an opening for this solo show from 4:00 – 6:00 pm on Saturday, September 19.
We will share more details about parking in the area closer to the opening. Please save the date for now!
About the artist
Hanieh Kashani is an Iranian interdisciplinary and experimental artist from Tehran. She holds a B.Sc. in Physics from Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Connecticut. She has recently begun her Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her practice examines how regimes of exclusion and imposed unity shape experiences of selfhood and otherness, rootedness and displacement.
She works across installation, performance, video, sculpture, and text to develop relational and processual cartographies in dialogue with present, imagined, or absent sites. Through these works, she explores how social and political violence is lived in and through bodies, intimate spaces, and the public realm of everyday life, while opening space for multiple narratives and radically imagining plural forms of living and belonging.
Headshot of artist Hanieh Kashani
Learn more about Hanieh and her work by visiting her website.
