Amin Mansouri is an artist, author, and creative director whose work moves between painting, poetry, publishing, and visual storytelling. His practice explores the intersection of image and language, creating worlds that are at once grotesque, intimate, poetic, and deeply human.
I began drawing as a child, long before I knew what art meant. What I discovered early was that my images provoked reactions. People rarely remained indifferent to them.
Over the years, painting became my primary language. I was drawn to the grotesque, to the fragile beauty of imperfect bodies, to figures that existed somewhere between dream and reality. My work gradually developed its own visual vocabulary—small heads, expressive limbs, winged beings, and characters that seem less like people and more like emotional states.
When social media emerged, I started sharing my paintings online. I soon realized that images alone were not always enough to be seen. So I began writing beneath them. What started as captions became poems, stories, and eventually books. To my surprise, people responded to the words as intensely as they responded to the images.
Since then, I have spent years creating a body of work that moves between visual art and literature. My paintings, poems, books, and collaborative projects are all parts of the same universe. I do not see image and text as separate disciplines; they are two ways of telling the same story.
Alongside my artistic practice, I worked for more than fifteen years as an Art Director and Creative Director in the advertising industry. This experience led me to found QELEQ, a creative studio dedicated to branding, communication, and creative strategy.
Today, my work continues to evolve through painting, writing, teaching, publishing, and creative collaboration. Whether through a canvas, a book, or a project, I am interested in creating worlds that invite curiosity, reflection, and transformation.