Jojo Anavim may be a contemporary pop artist himself, but he says that his personal art collection is informed mostly by his Persian-Jewish roots. His parents, Immanouel and Ladan Anavim, both fled Iran before the country’s 1979 revolution — a time when Jews were among those facing persecution — and settled on Long Island.

Mr. Anavim, 34, grew up there amid a tight-knit Persian community, and the art on the walls of the loft where he lives and works in Chelsea are reflections of the cultures that imbued his childhood.

“A lot of my works are by Persian or Jewish artists that are living and working today, and if they’re not, they remind me of my ethnicity in some way,” he said.

Over the last several years, Mr. Anavim has acquired pieces by the Iranian contemporary artists Dana Nehdaran, Maryam Khosrovani and Zahra Nazari, all of whom live in New York; the Jewish painter Allison Zuckerman, from Brooklyn; and the Los Angeles graffiti artist RETNA.