Artists

Aboosaeed Asadi

Ali Malek

Ali Rahimi

Alireza Asanloo

Alireza Asanloo (b. c. 1974–75, Tehran, Iran) is a largely self-taught painter and sculptor who studied under Morteza Katoozian. He has created bronze portrait busts of prominent Iranian cultural figures, including Ezzatollah Entezami, Abbas Kiarostami, and Forough Farrokhzad. In late 2016 he was recognized as best among some fifty artists at the first Paris Art […]

Amirali Momen

Arman Yaghoubpour

Arman Yaghoubpour is an Iranian contemporary artist trained in painting and art research, working primarily in thick-layered acrylic on themes of landscape and nature rooted in rural Iran. He held a solo exhibition, “Adobe and Plain,” in Tehran in December 2021.

Azin Zolfaqari

Azin Zolfaqari (b. 1982, Neyshabur, Iran) is a painter and graphic designer, a graduate with honors in painting from Tehran University of Art. Her practice treats the walls and facades of city buildings as a kind of skin, often rendered in hyperrealist detail. She won the 2022 Sovereign Asian Art Prize for “Density,” a hyperrealist […]

Davar Yousefi

Davar Yousefi (b. 1963, Ardabil, Iran) holds a BA and MA in painting from Islamic Azad University and has taught at Sooreh, Alzahra, and Islamic Azad universities. A member of the Association of Iranian Painters, he has held solo exhibitions at Aria Gallery (1994, 1996), Barg Gallery (2004), Momayyez Gallery (2007), Sareban Gallery (2019), and […]

Davood Teymooj

Einuddin Sadeghzadeh

Einuddin Sadeghzadeh (also transliterated “Einoddin”) is a calligrapher, graphic designer, and “line-painting” artist working in Nasta’liq and Shekasteh Nasta’liq scripts, integrating the visual structure of Persian calligraphy with painting principles.

Farah Abolghasem

Farah Abolghasem (b. 1960, Tehran, Iran) studied painting at Alzahra University, Tehran, graduating in 1988, and later taught drawing at private institutions, Azad University, and the University of Cinema and Theatre. In 2000 she was selected for the international Windsor & Newton painting competition, and in 2001–2002 held a nine-month residency at the Cité Internationale […]

Hamed Norouzi

Hamed Norouzi (b. 1991) is an Iranian painter working in oil on canvas, based in Karaj, Iran. He holds a degree in architecture engineering and has shown in group exhibitions at Sohrab, Shokooh, Matn, Ariyana, Baam, and Shirin galleries (2017–2022), including the solo exhibition “Sting Therapy” (2021) and the curated group show “Behind the Net […]

Hamed Sadr Arhami

Hamed Sadr Arhami (b. 1981, Isfahan, Iran) is a contemporary Iranian painter whose work blends traditional Persian art with modern, narrative and symbolist technique. He has held more than ten solo exhibitions and fifty group shows since the mid-2000s, including at Isfahan Artists’ House, Kowsar Gallery, Vali Gallery Tehran, Idea Gallery Tehran, and Shams Gallery, […]

Hossein Bavey

Iraj Eskandari

Iraj Eskandari (b. 1956) is an Iranian painter and academic who holds a BA in Painting from the Faculty of Decorative Arts, Tehran, an MA in Art Research (1995) and a PhD in Art Research (2005), both from the University of Art, Tehran, where he later served as professor and head of the Faculty of […]

Jalal Shabahangi

Manouchehr Niazi

Manouchehr Niazi (b. c. 1936–37, Tabriz, Iran) began studying painting at age fourteen and trained for six years at the Kamal-ol-Molk School before studying modern art with Jalil Ziapour. He holds a master’s degree in art history and criticism from Queens College, New York, and lived and worked in the United States for 23 years. […]

Mohammad Mastandehi

Nasser Ovissi

Nasser Ovissi (b. 1934, Tehran) is an Iranian-American painter, printmaker, and ceramicist associated with the Saqqakhaneh movement and regarded as a pioneer of Iranian modern art. He studied law and political science at the University of Tehran before pursuing art studies in Rome, and held his first exhibition in Tehran in 1956. Since relocating to […]

Ojan Shirozhan

Ojan Shirozhan (b. 1977) is an Iranian painter who trained under Mehdi Marzban and Babak Etminani before continuing his art education in Romania and Moldova, earning a bachelor’s and later a master’s degree in painting from the Academy of Music, Theatre and Visual Arts in Chișinău. He has held more than eight solo exhibitions in […]

Payam Ghorbani

Sadegh Adham

Sadegh Adham (b. 1978, Masjed Soleiman, Iran) is a bronze sculptor whose work moves between fantasy and reality, drawing on surrealist and mythological influences, including the Shahnameh. Over a two-decade practice, he has explored form and emotion through volume, line, and space, across figures, animals, and myth. He held the solo exhibition “Sufi” at Arthibition […]

Saeed Ahmadzadeh

Sepehr Sobhi

Siamak Azmi

Siamak Azmi (b. 1972, Kermanshah, Iran) is an Iranian painter working primarily in oil, best known for his “Dolls” / “The Toys” series of surreal, densely populated compositions. He has held solo exhibitions at Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran (2014) and Vali Gallery, Tehran (2014, 2017), and shown in group exhibitions including “Motif of Horse” at Pardis-e […]

Yaghma Soroshe

Yahya Gomar