ZH Magazine - The Art & Culture

Armin Amirian

Armin Amirian was born in 1995 in Isfahan, Iran. He is a self-taught artist who spent his childhood and teenage

Salim Salehi was born in 1976 in Tehran, Iran. He has a bachelor's degree in visual design and holds an Illustration master's degree in animation from the art and architecture department of the Azad University of Tehran.

Illustration, Painting

Masoud Keshmiri

Masoud Keshmiri is an Iranian artist who was born in 1976. Kashmiri has a bachelor's and master's degree in graphics and a master's degree in animation from Tehran University of Arts.

Photography

Milad Karamooz

Milad Karamooz is a self-taught Tehran-based photographer who was born in 1982. He has started photography at the age of 17 and worked his way up the art community after the 2013 art exhibition, as he officially entered the professional world of art.

Event, Painting

PATTERNS OF INTIMACY

Mona Shomali Art Exhibition | Nov 13, 2021, | Omiroo Gallery | 471 9rh St. Oakland

Film, Photography, Theater, Video

Mitra Tabrizian

Mitra Tabrizian is an Iranian-British artist and filmmaker. Her photographic work has been exhibited and published widely and is represented

Illustration

Kambiz Derambakhsh

Top Iranian cartoonist Kambiz Derambakhsh, whose works were published in the world’s major newspapers and magazines such as New York

Celebrity, Film, Painting, Theater, Video

Iran Darroudi

Iran Darroudi (September 1936 – 29 October 2021) was a revered Iranian painter, director, writer, art critic, and university professor. Her art consists of surreal paintings dealing with Iranian-themed imagery and intense lighting.

Painting

Hana Shahnavaz

Hana Louise Shahnavaz is a British-Iranian painter based in London, UK. Best known for her vibrant large-scale paintings characterized by an abundance of exquisite detail, her work explores the individual's connection to the Whole. Inspired by Persian miniature painting, she intricately painted nature scenes to honor Mother Earth and our unique connection to her.

Uncategorized

Azad Amin

Azad Amin was born in 1986 in Tehran, Iran. He has been working as a professional documentary photographer since 2013.

Illustration, Painting

Sahar Haghgoo

Sahar Haghgoo was born in 1981 in Rasht, Iran. She is a freelance illustrator based in London. She creates her illustrations through digital and mixed media techniques; and loves to use theatre and drama scenes in her compositions.

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Interview with Farhad Re

Farhad Re comes into fashion after his studies in architecture at the University of Rome; for this reason, he adores

Interview with Shiva Negar

Shiva is Iranian-Canadian Actress, Model, Producer, and Influencer who rose to prominence starring Annika Ogden in CBS Films/Lionsgate Blockbuster Movie

Interview with Bita Fayyazi

Rather than a sculptor, installation artist, or ceramicist engaged in a somewhat mystic relationship with her materials, Bita Fayyazi (b. 1962, Iran) is an artist who works within a more performative and markedly social practice. Beginning in the mid-1990s, her artistic interventions challenged the official definitions of art that were often circulated in Tehran at that time. Fayyazi struggled to show her work amidst an atmosphere of traditionalism, academics, and the influx of 1990s conceptual art from abroad.

Interview with Raoof Haghighi

Raoof Haghighi is an Iranian-born British artist, known for his portraiture and realism. He was born in 1976 in Shiraz,

Interview with Boshra

Born in 1985 in Shiraz, Boshra is an Iranian poet, writer, actress, and model who was first introduced to Persian literature by her grandfather before starting primary school. She developed a precocious love of poets such as Iradj Mirza and Parvin E'tesami whose work inspired her to write her own poetry from a young age. Boshra later studied Children's Literature and Theatre at the BIHE University and eventually left Iran for the USA in 2009 where she currently resides.

Interview with Soroosh Milanizadeh

Soroosh Milanizadeh, born in 1978, a photography graduate from Art and Architecture Azad University of Tehran. He is a Photographer, Video Artist, Painter, and art curator. He started his constant professional career in 1999 and has attempted to express his social concerns, particularly the position of women in society ever since.

Interview with Niaz Nawab

Niaz Nawab is an accomplished multi-instrumental musician, singer, songwriter, composer, and music teacher. Niaz was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently resides in Paris, France.

Interview with Shaun Toub

Shaun Toub was born in Tehran, Iran to a Persian-Jewish family. He was raised in Manchester, England. At the age of 13, he moved to Switzerland and after a two-year stay, he crossed the Atlantic to Nashua, New Hampshire, to finish his last year of high school. After two years of college in Massachusetts, Shaun transferred to USC. His high school yearbook notes: "The Funniest guy in school and the most likely to succeed in the entertainment world."

Interview with Navid Negahban

The Man of a Thousand Faces

Interview with Darya Dadvar

Darya grew up in an artistic environment in Iran. Her mother is a singer and director of the Marionette Theatre.