She makes exuberant and visceral paintings that reflect her obsessions with Persian-Islamic ceramics and other global high and low influences. She received her MFA from School of Visual Arts, NY and her BA from Columbia University, and participated in Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Residency. Ahkami has had solo exhibitions in New York at Leila Heller Gallery and at LMAK Projects in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally, and has been featured in The New York Times, ArtNews, among other publications.