Classical era

Classical Persian painter

Kamaleddin Behzad Kamal ad-Din ( ar, كمال‌ الدين, ''Kamāl ad-Dīn'') is a male Muslim given name or surname (''laqab'' in Arabic), meaning "perfection of the religion" in Arabic. The name is formed from the elements '' kamāl'' (), '' al-'' (), and ''d ...

Reza Abbasi Reza Abbasi, Riza yi-Abbasi or Reza-e Abbasi, رضا عباسی in Persian, usually Reza Abbasi also Aqa Reza (see below) or Āqā Riżā Kāshānī ( – 1635) was the leading Persian miniaturist of the Isfahan School during the later Safavid ...

Farrukh Beg Farrukh Beg ( Persian: فرخ بیگ) (ca. 1547), also known as Farrukh Husayn, was a Persian miniature painter, who spent a bulk of his career in Safavid Iran and Mughal India, praised by Mughal Emperor Jahangir as “unrivaled in the age.” ...

Mihr 'Ali Mihr 'Ali (Persian: مهر علی نقاش; fl. 1795-''post'' 1830) (also spelt Mir Ali or Mehr Ali) was one of the great royal painters of the Persian court during the reign of Fat'h Ali Shah Qajar, and is regarded as the most notable Persi ...

Modern era

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* Aghapour, Shahla * Aghdashloo, Aydin * Alikhanzadeh, Samira (1967– ), painter * Alivandi, Bahram * Arabshahi, Massoud (1935–2019), painter * Aram, Kamrooz (1978– ), painter *

Siah Armajani Siavash "Siah" Armajani ( fa, سیاوش ارمجانی; 10 July 1939 – 27 August 2020) was an Iranian-born American sculptor and architect known for his public art. Family and education Siavash Armajani was born into a wealthy, educated fam ...

, conceptual artist

B

* Bakhshpour, Jamal * Behzad, Hossein * Borbor, Dariush

D

Delara Darabi Delara Darabi ( fa, دلارا دارابى) (29 September 19861 May 2009) was an Iranian Gilaki woman who was sentenced to death after having been convicted of murdering her father's female cousin in 2003. Although Delara initially claimed that ...

* Iran Darroudi *

Mir Abdolrez Daryabeigi Abdolrez Daryabeigi (January 30, 1930 – November 1, 2012), was an Iranian peoples, Iranian artist, Art dealer, gallerist, and an innovator of Iranian modern art. He was active in Tehran and Paris. Biography Daryabeigi was born in Rasht in no ...

* Ali Divandari *

Bijan Daneshmand Bijan Daneshmand (born 16 August 1958) is an Iranian born-English actor and artist based in London, England. He was born in Tehran, Iran, and was sent to England for his schooling at the age of 10. He was educated in England at Eastbourne Colleg ...

E

* Abolhassan Etessami (1903–1978), architect, calligrapher, painter, and novelist * Zohreh Etezad ol-Saltan, artist, painter, carpet weaver

F

* Amir H. Fallah (1979– ), Iranian born, American painter based in Los Angeles *

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian ( fa, منیر شاهرودی فرمانفرمائیان; 16 December 1922 – 20 April 2019) was an Iranian artist and a collector of traditional folk art. She is noted for having been one of the most prominent Ira ...

* Farshchian, Mahmouad (1930– )

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* Ghanbari, Mokarrameh (1928–2005), heuristic and self made painter * Ghandriz, Mansoor, painter *

Marcos Grigorian Marcos Grigorian, also known as Marco Grigorian ( hy, Մարկոս Գրիգորեան; fa, مارکو گريگوريان; December 5, 1925 – August 27, 2007) was an Iranian-Armenian and American artist and gallery owner, and he was a pioneer o ...

, painter

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Raoof Haghighi Raoof Haghighi is an Iranian-born British artist, known for his portraiture and realism. He was born in 1976 in Shiraz, Iran. His father was an artist and it was in Iran where he started to learn painting; he is a self taught artist. Since 199 ...

Fariba Hajamadi Fariba Hajamadi (born Isfahan, Iran 1957) is an Iranian American artist whose work employs photography and painting on fabric, canvas, and wood panels, often presented as large scale installations. Her work investigates cultural and gender Identit ...

Khosrow Hassanzadeh Khosrow Hassanzadeh (born 1963 in Tehran) is an Iranian painter. He is known for his "Terrorist" collection. Life and career Hassanzadeh was born in 1963 in Tehran, to a working class Azerbaijani family who were fruit-sellers. He was just 17 ...

Haydar Hatemi Haydar Hatemi (born March 3, 1945 in Hadishahr) is an Iranian artist whose work is based on blends of classical oriental styles such as miniature and tazhib, with some modern elements. His early studies in art started at Tabriz's Art Academy af ...

* Mansooreh Hosseini *

Mehdi Hosseini Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Bami (born July 10, 1979; Persian: سید مهدی حسینی بمی) is a Persian composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Hosseini was born in Tehran, Iran, and received his master's degree and Doctor of Musi ...

J

* Pouran Jinchi

K

* Abbas Katouzian *

Kamal-ol-Molk Mohammad Ghaffari ( fa, محمد غفاری), better known as Kamal-ol-Molk (), was an Iranian painter and part of the Ghaffari family in Kashan. Biography Mohammad Ghaffari, better known as Kamal-ol-Molk, born in Kashan in 1848, to a family wi ...

* keikhosro khoroush * Kazemi, Zhaleh (1944–2005), painter, news anchor, and producer * Shokoufeh Kavani * Khodadadi, Reza

L

* Farideh Lashai (1944– ), painter

M

* Iman Maleki * Leyly Matine-Daftary (1937–2007), modernist painter, educator *

Farshid Mesghali Farshid Mesghali ( fa, فرشید مثقالی , born July 1943) is an Iranian animator, graphic designer, illustrator, animator, and writer who has lived in the United States since 1986. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen ...

(1943– ), graphic designer, illustrator, and author *

Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam (; 27 July 1924 – 7 September 2018), was an Iranian-born painter, sculptor, and a professor of art. He was most notable for his style of abstract expressionism, and was once referred to as the "pioneer of modern Irania ...

(1924–2018), painter and professor of art * Farhad Moshiri * Noreen Motamed *

Mir-Hossein Mousavi Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh ( fa, میرحسین موسوی خامنه, Mīr-Hoseyn Mūsavī Khāmené, ; born 2 March 1942) is an Iranian reformist politician, artist and architect who served as the forty-ninth and last Prime Minister of Ira ...

(1941– ), painter, architect and politician

N

* Naderi Yeganeh, Hamid (1990– ), Iranian mathematical artist * Afshin Naghouni (1969-), Iranian-British visual artist * Neshat, Shirin (1957– ), Iranian-American artist, photographer and filmmaker * Nodjoumi, Nicky (1942– ), Iranian-American painter * Nouri, Mina (1951– ), Iranian painter, and printmaker * Novin, Guity (1944– ), Iranian-Canadian figurative painter, and graphic designer * Nuri, Hossein (1954– ), Iranian painter, dramaturge, and filmmaker

O

* Kazem Ordoobadi (1919–2002), painter

P

Kour Pour Kour Pour (born 1987) is a British Americans, British-born American artist, who is of British and Iranian-descent. His artwork is inspired by living between different cultures and he works primarily in painting and printmaking. Pour is best known ...

(1987– ), Iranian-British painter, printmaker

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Shokouh Riazi Shokouh Riazi (; 1921–1962) was an Iranian Modernist painter, and educator. She a pioneer of modern art in Iran and is thought to have been the first Iranian women to study art in Paris. Riazi taught painting classes, and some members of the S ...

(1921–1965), modernist painter

S

* Sadeghi, Ali Akbar (1937– ), painter * Sadeghi Amini, Farhad * Sadr, Behjat * Salimi, Homayoun (1948– ), painter and academic * Samad, Khwaja Abdus (16th century), painter and one of the founders of the Mughal school of painting in India *

Sohrab Sepehri Sohrab Sepehri ( fa, سهراب سپهری; October 7, 1928 – April 21, 1980) was a notable Iranian poet and painter. He is considered to be one of the five most famous Iranian poets who have practiced modern poetry alongside Nima Youshij, A ...

* Shafrazi, Tony * Shahrokh, Naz (born 1969 ) *

Keyvan Shovir Keyvan Heydari-Shovir (Persian:; born September 1985), also known as CK1, is an Iranian-born contemporary artist, and street artist. His work combines Iranian traditional culture with contemporary pop culture, and he is a pioneer of Iranian graf ...

(born 1985), Iranian-born American graffiti artist

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* Amir Shayesteh Tabar (1967– ), painter and poet *

Towhidi Tabari Towhidi Tabari ( fa, توحیدی طبری, Mazandarani: توحیدی طبری Tawhidi Tabari ; born 15 June 1964) is an Iranian artist. He is a member of the Society of Iranian Calligraphists, International Association of Art, La Maison des ...

(1964– ), painter and Persian style illuminator *

Jazeh Tabatabai Jazeh Tabatabai ( fa, ژازه تباتبايي) (January 17, 1931 – February 9, 2008) was an Iranian avant-garde Painting, painter, poet, and sculptor.

(1931–2008), avant-garde painter, poet, and sculptor *

Taravat Talepasand Taravat Talepasand (born 1979) is an Iranian-American contemporary artist, activist, and educator whose labor-intensive interdisciplinary painting practice including drawing, sculpture, and installation questions normative cultural behaviors withi ...

(1979– ), Iranian American painter, sculptor * Mohammad Ali Taraghijah *

Parviz Tanavoli Parviz Tanavoli (born 1937) is an Iranian sculptor, painter, educator, and art historian. He is a pioneer within the Saqqakhaneh school, a neo-traditionalist art movement. Tanavoli has been one of the most expensive Iranian artists in sales. Tanav ...

, sculptor

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Z

* Zenderoudi, Hossein (1937– ), painter and sculptor * Ziapour, Jalil

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Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

Painters Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...