Artist Bio
Maliheh Yousefi is an Iranian-Swedish contemporary artist based in Stockholm whose work explores femininity, emotional depth, sensuality, identity, and the complexity of human presence through mixed media and figurative pop art.
Her artistic language is shaped by the contrast between cultures, emotions, and lived experiences. Drawing from both her Iranian heritage and life in Scandinavia, she creates layered works that balance softness and strength, intimacy and boldness, refinement and raw expression.
Before fully dedicating herself to art, Maliheh worked for years in engineering and technical fields. That contrast between structure and emotion continues to influence her creative process. Through expressive textures, symbolic details, and emotionally charged figures, her work combines contemporary aesthetics with a deeply personal visual language.
Her paintings invite viewers into spaces where vulnerability and power coexist, exploring what is often felt beneath the surface rather than openly spoken. Today, her original artworks and prints are collected internationally through her online gallery.
Artist Statement
I paint to express what words often cannot hold emotion, femininity, tension, desire, memory, and the contradictions people carry beneath the surface.
My work is driven more by feeling than perfection. I am drawn to rawness, layered emotion, intimacy, and the space where softness and strength exist at the same time.
Through texture, figurative forms, and expressive color, I create paintings that are meant to be experienced emotionally as much as visually. I want the work to feel alive, human, and honest.
More than anything, I hope my paintings create connection the kind where someone sees a piece and feels something of themselves reflected back.