Maryam Hoseini makes delicate, figurative paintings to investigate the political, social, and personal conditions of identity and gender. Her work reflects on her personal experiences in Iran as she re-examines both the country's iconic architecture and landscape, and its homosocial atmosphere, where women customarily socialize exclusively with their own gender. Often featuring fragmented and flat planes of bodies that collapse with architectural environments, Hoseini’s paintings explore the concept of ruins and fragmentation in politicized and social spaces. Fascinated by mythology, Hoseini draws inspiration from ancient times, as well as from modern ones, such as surrealist art, comic book images. and horror-comedy films popular in the 70s-90s. The techniques employed with her smaller paintings recall the legacy Persian miniatures.