Pouran Jinchi first studied Engineering at George Washington University, Washington D. C. in 1982 before taking up painting at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989 then followed by studio painting at the Art Students League in New York in 1993.
Her work suggests a mixture of calligraphy and abstract expressionism. Obsessive, tedious and unrelenting in her approach, Jinchi covers large areas with the smallest and most repetitive of marks, be they script, floral motifs from Andalusian ceramics or the netted patterns of a ghitra.
Jinchi has exhibited extensively and has had eight solo exhibitions in New York alone. She has exhibited internationally with shows in Japan and Germany and is featured in public collections including the Federal Reserve Bank, New York, The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C and the Brooklyn Museum, New York. She currently lives and works in New York.
