9.25 × 12.8 inches, 96 pages, hardcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-84-2

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Published by Inventory Press, Speed Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, & Asia Society Texas

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Outerworlds is the first monograph to trace the life and career of Iraq-born, Kentucky-based artist Vian Sora. Merging global art traditions, her paintings engage themes of war, exile, survival, and renewal through richly textured, emotionally charged compositions. Surveying a decade of artistic production, this volume follows Sora’s path from Baghdad to the American South, illuminating a practice shaped by both personal and geopolitical upheaval. Moving seamlessly between abstraction and figuration, her paintings draw on ancient iconography and lived experience to explore the layered complexities of identity. Sora’s work is at once intimate and political—a testament to transformation and resilience.