Noreen Motamed is an

Iranian-American Iranian Americans are United States citizens or nationals who are of Iranian ancestry or who hold Iranian citizenship. Iranian Americans are among the most highly educated people in the United States. They have historically excelled in busine ...

artist and painter, residing in

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Biography

Daughter of linguist, Fereydoun Motamed. She was born in Abadan,

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 Turkmeni ...

and attended primary and secondary school in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

and graduated from

University of Tehran The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, fa, دانشگاه تهران) is the most prominent university located in Tehran, Iran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching pro ...

with a

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...

degree in Arts. She continued her postgraduate studies and once again graduated in first place from Alzahra University with a Master of Arts degree with concentration in

painting 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 ...

. She began

as a professional artist in 1983. Starting with a

figurative art Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational. The term is often in contrast to abstract a ...

style she then turned to abstract work, often depicting abstracted Persian female rug weavers and kilim weavers or humans and nature.

Persian miniatures A Persian miniature (Persian: نگارگری ایرانی ''negârgari Irâni'') is a small Persian painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works called a ''muraqqa''. The ...

have been great sources of inspiration in her latest

paintings 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 ...

. She has continued this style while in the United States with a western influence as it appears in some of her abstract figurative 2 collection.

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* "''Iranian Women Artists:

Guity Novin Guity Novin (''née'' Navran; born 1944) is an Iranian-born Canadian artist, known as a figurative painter and graphic designer. She classifies her work as "transpressionism" (trans- and impressionism), a term coined by Novin in the 1990s. Her ...

Sara Rahbar Sara Rahbar (born 1976) is a contemporary artist. Her work ranges from photography to sculpture to installation, all of which reveal and transform the artist's personal experiences and are intimately autobiographical. Her work explores concepts o ...

, Noreen Motamed, Sara Shamsavari,

Mansooreh Hosseini Mansooreh Hosseini (Persian: منصوره حسینی; born 1 September 1926 – 13 June 2012) was an Iranian contemporary artist and one of the pioneers of the country’s modern art. Life At a young age, it was discovered that she had a talent ...

, Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iran Darroudi''", , (2010)

External links

Noreen Motamed's websiteNoreen's Youtube Sideshow Videos
*Voice of America (VOA) TV
Persian Interview with Noreen Motamed about her paintings at Seyhoun Gallery
from 2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Motamed, Noreen 1967 births Living people 20th-century Iranian women artists 21st-century Iranian women artists Iranian women painters People from Abadan, Iran Al-Zahra University alumni American artists of Iranian descent

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