Iranian Artist
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Akbar Akbari
Akbar Akbari is an Iranian watercolor painter and teacher whose portraits mix precise technique with a quiet emotional warmth. He began his career in 1998 and has spent decades shifting between…
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Mohsen Kiyanzadeh
Mohsen Kiyanzadeh is an Iranian painter born in 1979, known for vibrant contemporary work in both watercolor and oil. He has held solo exhibitions across Iran and abroad, and has also…
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Javad Soleimanpour
Javad Soleimanpour is a self-taught Iranian pastel painter born in Tabriz who has painted professionally for 25 years. Known for seascapes and portraits, he now lives near the Sea of Marmara…
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Morteza Katouzian
Morteza Katouzian was an Iranian painter born in Iran in 1943, celebrated for blending traditional Persian motifs with modern technique across painting, calligraphy, and illustration. Drawing inspiration from Rumi and Hafez,…
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Majid Arvari
Majid Arvari is an Iranian realist painter born in Tehran in 1969 who began studying under Master Morteza Katouzian in 1990 after seeing his work the year before. In 2001 he…
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Iman Maleki
Iman Maleki is an Iranian realist painter born in Tehran in 1976, who began formal lessons at fifteen under the master realist Morteza Katouzian. He founded his own ARA Painting Studio…
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Shahrad Malekfazeli
Shahrad Malekfazeli is an Iranian figurative painter born in 1975 in Tehran, who began training under realist master Morteza Katouzian at age 15 and was painting professionally by 20. He earned…
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Mitra Shadfar
Mitra Shadfar is an Iranian realist painter born in Tehran in 1969, who trained under master painter Morteza Katouzian starting in 1987 at Tehran’s Kara Painting Studio. Known for emotionally rich…
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Ahmad Haraji
Ahmad Haraji is an Iranian-born realist painter who started drawing at 14 in Boroujerd and later studied graphic design and illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tehran. He moved…
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Shirin Neshat
Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born visual artist and filmmaker who left home at 17 and settled in New York, where a return visit to a changed Iran in 1990 reshaped her…
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Maryam Safe
Maryam Safajoo is a Persian American painter born in 1986 and a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts, who trained at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts…
