Pouran Jinchi (born 1959; Persian: پوران جین چی) is an Iranian-born American visual artist.
[2][3] Trained as a calligrapher in Mashad, Iran, Jinchi received a bachelor of science in 1982 in civil engineering, from George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; before studying sculpture and painting at the University of California, Los Angeles, California in 1989; and studio painting at the Art Students League of New York, New York City in 1993.
[4] Jinchi's work often employs a mixture of calligraphy and abstract expressionism that intertwines Islamic geometry, Iranian traditions and contemporary aesthetics, with a unique lyricism.
[5] Her early Poetry paintings are both abstract and literal presentations of poems in which texts are morphed beyond recognition into flowing, anthropomorphic shapes.
Jinchi's recent work reflects an increasingly detailed focus on the form of language as subject matter.