Saman & Sasan Oskouei (aka Icy & Sot)

Saman Oskouei (born in 1985) and Sasan Oskouei (born in 1991) are two brothers from Tabriz, Iran, now based in Brooklyn, New York. Together they form the multidisciplinary duo Icy & Sot. The brothers began stencilling on the streets of Tabriz in the 2000s.

In 2012, Saman and Sasan Oskouei emigrated to the United States and founded Oskouei Studio in Brooklyn. Having moved from street art to sculpture, they also work in installation, painting, video and photography. They explore borders and freedom, and return again and again to nature. Using raw materials such as steel and wire, they create poetic, politically engaged pieces that carry resilience and hope.

From June 2018 to January 2019, the Moco Museum in Amsterdam devoted the exhibition "A Moment of Clarity" to them. In Times Square, their sculpture "A New America" forms an American flag out of steel bars and chain-link fencing. In 2022, Icy & Sot installed "Bricks of a Revolution" at Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island, as part of the exhibition "Eyes on Iran". In Paris, Danysz gallery has shown their work since 2020.

In 2025, "Flora Urbanica" at Danysz brought stylised plant forms into their work, with embroideries made in Iran with their mother. The same year, IRL Gallery in New York showed their oil-painted landscapes in "Terra Forma". In 2026, the brothers received a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.