“Farah Pahlavi: Queen of Art and Culture”
Farah Pahlavi played a significant role in developing the art scene in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s.
Arghavan Khosravi
Arghavan Khosravi was raised in Tehran, Iran. She graduated from Art and Architecture University of Tehran «Honâr va Mêmari» with a Bachelor of Graphic Design and completed an MFA in illustration at Faculty of Fine Art, the University of Tehran. After practicing in both fields for nearly a decade, she came to the U.S. to pursue her life-long dream of becoming a painter. She enrolled at Rhode Island School of Design after completing a post-baccalaureate program in studio art at Brandeis University.
Miahatami
Narguess Hatami – founder of Miahatami – was born in Tehran in 1981 in an artistic family. Her father is an architect and her mother is a fashion designer. After earning her scientific degree at one of the most prestigious pre-college institutions in Tehran, she decided to pursue her studies in Italy. She joined the Faculty of Humanities of the Università degli Studi in Bologna, following the Degree Course in Culture and Techniques of Costume and Fashion. Since then she realized her passion towards fashion and started developing it.
Nina Ghafari
Nina Ghafari (1989) is a Persian artist based in Stavanger Norway. Ghafari’s work is a raw and often painful testament to her unfiltered exploration of memory and self through text and image. A self-taught artist whose short-lived spell at art school showed her that the teaching of “art” for some social classes, was nothing more than an attempt to condition and mute the often brutal realities and associated creativity of those operating outside mainstream hegemonic culture. In her case, this concerns second-generation immigrant outsiders with a passionate need to express themselves.
Naser Malek Motiei
Iranian actor Nasser Malak motiei who appeared in over 100 movies and TV series, in most of which he played the roles of virile characters, died on Friday night, he was 88.
Mahsa Karimi
Mahsa Karimi is an Iranian visual artist based in Tehran. Karimi was born in 1981, currently lives and works in Tehran.
Shadi Yasrebi
Shadi Yasrebi is an Iranian Visual Artist who have started her art journey since she was a kid. Later on she pursued her passion in art and got degrees in Graphic Design as well as Painting.
Interview with Ahmad Zohdi
Ahmad Zohdi was born in the village of Vaneshan, Esfahan Province, in 1952. A village with several thousand years’ histories and its special rural language and customs along with a long-standing culture. Living in nature is defined for Ahmad Zohdi in a different way and has formed a unique approach to life that is alien to an urban man of this century.
Qazaleh Naqibi
Qazaleh Naqibi was born in Tehran in March 1992. She received her diploma in mathematics. From an early age, she was interested in art, especially painting and drew paintings for words, sentences, and poems specifically. In fact, she illustrated unconsciously. It means that all the created pictures had stories and adventures in themselves.
Interview with Ghobad Shiva
Shiva graduated in 1966 from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran. He then spent several years acquiring practical experience in graphic art before earning a master's degree from Pratt University, New York City, in 1980. Then after creating original works over several decades, he achieved a graphic artist with an Iranian flavor, which indeed prompted museums and collectors across the world to add his works to their collections.
Interview with Shiva Pouryousef
The first Iranian woman who won the first prize AIA U.K Charrette for the leadership of community generated power converted into social trade project.