Homa Arkani (b. 1983, Tehran) is an Iranian-born artist based in Brussels whose work weaves through the intimate threads of identity, memory, and cultural inheritance. With roots in graphic design, a degree earned at the University in Tehran. she first worked in visual communication before surrendering fully to the language of painting.

In 2011, a deeper calling drew her toward the lived realities of women in contemporary Iran. The result was Share Me, a series that gave form to the silences, pressures, and resistances etched into everyday life. Between 2011 and 2016, her works were shown in solo and group exhibitions across Iran, Belgium, France, and the UK.

In 2017, she left Iran and found herself in Belgium, pursuing a master’s degree in painting at KASK, Ghent. That migration became a threshold not only geographical but internal. Her practice began to shift, loosening into abstraction and surrealism, while continuing to carry the weight of history and the questions of power, presence, and voice.

Today, her work flows across disciplines, painting, drawing, installation with one motif threading its way persistently through her creations: hair. Hair appears not just as a visual element but as a symbol of resistance, of belonging, of inherited memory. For Arkani, it is both veil and signal, both body and metaphor.

The landscapes in her work often echo those of her childhood: the raw, wild terrains of Iran during the years of war. Spaces that held both danger and refuge. Nature becomes a protector, a silent witness, a timeless chorus in her compositions.

She writes:

“At the heart of my practice lives a quiet obsession with the place where the self meets the weight of history, where personal memory collides with the collective. I trace the hidden threads of how culture, power, and politics shape the body, mold identity, and attempt to hush what refuses to vanish.

My work is a conversation between what can be touched and what can only be felt , between the seen and the sensed. I invite you to step into that space with me: to question how power takes shape, how stories are stitched into skin, and how, even under pressure, something unspoken survives and begins again.”