About the artist

Mali Mann is an artist, poet, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst. She started painting in her early childhood. She sketched portraits and figures, often using watercolor, ink, and pastel, but her favorite medium soon became oil.

Her work varies among different styles, textures, colors, and subjects.

After years of figurative painting, she transitioned to abstract expressionism during the Covid period.

For Mali, “My heart is the inspiring force of my creative work. Art is about introspection, how to see and listen to my voice.”

Mali’s poetry has been published in two books along with her paintings; “A Path with No Name”, “Whisper, Forget me not” and several professional journals.

Mali’s profound involvement in art developed as she participated in an art competition in Iran, her country of birth. It was first at the state level and, later, at the national. Learning from the art educators from the University of Tehran each summer, she was encouraged to continue her painting. In the United States, she took courses at many art studios in New York and California.

Mali presented her work as a medical student in numerous solo exhibitions in Shiraz, but much of her work there disappeared due to the events related to the revolution. Her creative work continued in the United States despite unfortunate circumstances. She experienced a rebirth of her creative artistic life and has enjoyed painting.