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List Of Iranian Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Iran or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A *Panteha Abareshi (born 1999), multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, California *Golnar Adili (born 1976), artist based in Brooklyn, New York *Shahla Aghapour, painter, sculptor, performance art, author, gallery director *Shiva Ahmadi (born 1975), painter, video artist, and installation artist, based in the San Francisco Bay Area * Shirin Aliabadi (1973–2018), visual artist, previously based in Tehran * Samira Alikhanzadeh (born 1967), painter *Morehshin Allahyari (born 1985), artist active since 2007, educator, based in Brooklyn *Afruz Amighi (born 1974), sculptor, installation art, based in Brooklyn *Nazgol Ansarinia (born 1979), painter * Shahla Arbabi (born 1945), mixed media artist, based in Washington D.C. * Akram Monfared Arya (born 1946), painter late in life, but best known as the second licensed female aircraft pilot of Iran B *Nairy Baghramian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of , making it the 17th-largest country. Iran has a population of 86 million, making it the 17th-most populous country in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East. Its largest cities, in descending order, are the capital Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz. The country is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Great fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parisa Damandan
Parisa Damandan, or Parīsā Damandān Nafīsī (born 1967, Isfahan, Iran) is an Iranian photographer and art historian. She received a degree in photography from the University of Tehran.Book description and author biography for "Portrait photographs from Isfahan" from the publisher, Saqi Books She is the author of '' Portrait photographs from Isfahan: Faces in transition, 1920-1950'', a book illustrating the history of Isfahan in the early 20th century with portrait ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soraya French
Soraya French (born 1957) is an Iranian artist known for her vivid use of colour in acrylic based multimedia and she has produced six books ''30 Minute Acrylics'', and ''Dynamic Acrylics'' and an instructional DVD. Work She is a regular contributor to The Artist magazine and regularly holds painting workshops in her studio at Project Workshops. She is a demonstrator for GOLDEN artist colors. She is the President of the Society of Women Artists (SWA) and the Andover Art Society, a member of Society of All Artists (SAA), Society for Floral Painting (SFP) and Wallop Artists. She has won various awards, the most notable are the Daler Rowney Choice Awards at Society of Women Artists. Soraya is a versatile artist working in watercolours, oils, pastels, acrylics and mixed media in a variety of subject matters such as musicians, café scenes and African market scenes amongst others. Many of her subjects are travel based and people in everyday life situations feature a great deal in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parastou Forouhar
Parastou Forouhar (born 1962 in Tehran) is an Iranian installation artist who lives and works out of Frankfurt, Germany. Forouhar's art reflects her criticism of the Iranian government and often plays with the ideas of identity. Her artwork expresses a critical response towards the politics in Iran and Islamic Fundamentalism. The loss of her parents, Dariush and Parvaneh, fuels Forouhar's work and challenges viewers to take a stand on war crimes against innocent citizens. Forouhar's work has been exhibited around the world including Iran, Germany, Russia, Turkey, England, United States, and more. Biography Early life and education The daughter of political activist Parvaneh Forouhar (née Eskandari) and politician Dariush Forouhar, Parastou was born in 1962 in Tehran, Iran. Her father critiqued the Iranian government and he founded and led the Hezb-e-Mellat-e Iran (Nation Party of Iran), which was a far-right secular opposition party in Iran. Her parents were stabbed to death in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chohreh Feyzdjou
Chohreh Feyzdjou ( fa, شهره فیضجو, September 5, 1955 – February 17, 1996) was an Iranian artist. She was known for sculpture and installation art; she covered her older works in black pigment and labeled them, then displayed them as you would see in a shop or at the bazaar. Biography Chohreh Feyzdjou was born into a Jewish family in Tehran. Her father had changed the family name from Cohen to Feyzdjou, a more common surname for Persian people, in an attempt to blend in. She moved to Paris in 1975, where she studied fine art at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In France, she was told that her surname was unpronounceable and that she should change it. As of 1989, she began labelling her work with "Product of Chohreh Feyzdjou", each identified with a letter, a serial number and the year. Her pieces are generally coated in black pigment. Feyzdjou had her work included in exhibitions at the CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux and the Galerie na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bita Fayyazi
Bita Fayyazi ( fa, بیتا فیاضی ) (born 1962 in Tehran) is an Iranian artist and pioneer in the field of Iranian public art projects. She is known for her theatrical, large-scale work. Fayyazi currently lives, works and teaches at a private studio in Tehran. Biography Fayyazi has 15 years work experience in the fields of ceramics and sculpture, with much of her work categorized as "dark ceramics" due to the subject matter. She lived in England for a period of 7 years and returned to Iran in 1980. She participated in the Iranian Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005 and has exhibited at, among others, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris (2008 and 2010), the Museum of Modern Art in Freiburg (2007) and the Pergamon Museum, Berlin (2008). She has exhibited in two group exhibitions at Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris, notably in Be Crowned with Laurel in Oblivion (2010) with Ramin and Rokni Haerizadeh and the Stock Exchange of Visions project in 2007. See also *Modern and co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golnaz Fathi
Golnaz Fathi (born 1972) is an Iranian contemporary artist noted for her artwork in the hurufiyya tradition. Life and career She was born in Tehran and studied graphic design at Islamic Azad University, receiving a BA in 1995. She went on to study traditional Persian calligraphy, receiving a diploma from the Iranian Society of Calligraphy. Fathi was named Best Woman Calligraphist by the Iranian Society of Calligraphy in 1995. Fathi has developed her own abstract style derived from the practice of traditional calligraphy. Unlike traditional calligraphy, her painting features strong brushstrokes and vibrant colour. Although her work may include Arabic letters, Fathi wants it to be viewed as abstract images rather than as text. For continuing the use of calligraphy in abstract designs, she is seen as part of the broader, hurufiyya art movement. Art historian, Rose Issa, has described her work as that of a third generation huryifiyya artist.Issa, R., Cestar. J. and Porter,V., ''Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tannaz Farsi
Tannaz Farsi (born 1974) is an Iranian-born American multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. Farsi is an Associate Professor of sculpture at the University of Oregon. She lives in Eugene, Oregon. Biography Tannaz Farsi was born in 1974 in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran. Farsi received her BFA degree (2004) from West Virginia University; and her MFA degree (2007) from Ohio University. Farsi has had solo exhibitions at the Linfield Gallery at SculptureCenter (2008); the Barron and Elin Gordon Galleries, Old Dominion University; Ohge Ltd, Seattle (2009); Delaware Center for Contemporary Art (2010); Disjecta (2011); Pitzer College Art Galleries (2013); and Linfield College (2017). Farsi has had group exhibitions include at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan; Tacoma Art Museum; Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University; Gallery Homeland, Portland, Oregon; and the PDX Film Festiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homa Vafaie Farley
Homa Vafaie Farley () is an Iranian-born potter and ceramics designer. She lives in Abu Dhabi. Biography Homa Farley was born in Tehran, Iran. She grew up near Mount Damavand. As a teenager she decided to move to the United Kingdom to study English and had originally wanted to be a poet. After meeting her husband Michael Farley in Iran, they married; and now have two children. Homa didn't take up pottery until after her children were born. After a brief encounter with a potter's wheel at a market in 2001, Homa signed up for summer school at South Nottingham College and Carrington Pottery. Farley decided to study ceramic design at the Glasgow School of Art and graduated with a BA degree. Her teachers included Archie McCall, Bill Brown, Jane Hamlyn, John McGuire, Tony Franks, Greg Daly and Ken Eastman. Farley spent time in Japan in 2002, where her style and taste in ceramics changed. Farley is also a keen martial artists she received her 1st dan black belt under the guidan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atena Farghadani
Atena Farghadani ( fa, آتنا فرقدانی; born 29 January 1987) is an Iranian artist and political activist, who was imprisoned for 18 months. Amnesty International considers her a prisoner of conscience. She was released on 3 May 2016. Arrest and imprisonment One of her cartoons, in which she criticized a draft law which would outlaw voluntary sterilisation and restrict access to measures of birth control, portrayed Iranian government officials as monkeys and goats. After publishing her artworks on Facebook, she was arrested in August 2014 and jailed for three months in Evin Prison in Tehran on charges of spreading propaganda, insulting members of parliament, and insulting the Supreme Leader of Iran. She was released in November. Farghadani sent letters of protest over her treatment to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, Hassan Rouhani, the president, and the head of the prison service, but did not receive a reply. She then posted a video online in which she ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatemeh Emdadian
Fatemeh Emdadian (Persian: فاطمه امدادیان) (born 1955 in Tabriz) is a contemporary Iranian sculptor based in Mehrshahr, Karaj, Iran. She often sculpts with wood, bronze and casts. Biography In 1976 she graduated from Behzad School of Fine Arts, Tehran with a B.A. in sculpture. Emdadian is married to painter, Behrouz Moslemian and together they have two daughters. In 2002 she was awarded the Tehran Sculpture Biennial's 4th place juried award, held at the Niavaran Cultural Center Gallery. Her work featured in this exhibition were wooden sculptures shaped similar to an angle's wing, arranged in groupings. In 2009 she participated in ''The Masques of Shahrazad'' art exhibition with 28 Iranian women artist, surveying three decades at Candlestar Gallery in London. Her artwork, with other artists, was part of the Disappeared statues in Tehran, 2010. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryam Eisler
Maryam Eisler (née Homayoun) is an Iranian-born, London-based artist and former marketer. She is known as a photographer, writer, book editor, art collector, and she serves on many boards. Early life and education Born in Tehran, Iran in 1968, Eisler emigrated to Paris, France at age 10. Eisler holds a BA degree in Political Science from Wellesley College (1989) and an MBA degree from Columbia University (1993). She has worked in consumer marketing at L'Oreal (1993–1998) followed by Estee Lauder (1998– 2001) in both London and New York City. Career Eisler's first series, in 2016, was ''Searching for Eve in the American West.'' Her second major series, in 2017, was ''Eurydice in Provence.'' Eisler is a regular writer and contributor to ''Harpers Bazaar'' and has also contributed articles to '' Vanity Fair'' UK, ''Art and Auction'' magazine, and ''Canvas Magazine. She has edited six books on art published by Thames & Hudson. In 2014, Eisler was voted by Artnet as on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
