Mahin Thorp
YAM Artist-in-Residence
July 17 – August 22, 2025

Mahin Thorp is an artist and educator living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Thorp’s mixed media works focus on the intersections between Persian animism and geology. In her work she explores the animistic quality of rocks and how they are distorted and abstracted by human impact. Through site visits, she constructs images of revived landscapes by searching for images, figures, words, animals, and forms imbedded in the stone to express their intrinsic power to absorb our histories. She obtained her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University and her BFA from Weber State University. She has been recognized through various accolades such as a Virginia Museum of Fine Art Fellow, Arteles Artist in Residence (Finland) and as a Hopper Prize Finalist.

Visit Mahin’s website here: mahinthorp.com