This is a list of women artists who were born in

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Panteha Abareshi Panteha Abareshi ( fa, پانته‌آ ابارشی; born 1999) is a Canadian-born American multidisciplinary artist and curator, primarily working within installation art, video art, and performance art. They are of Jamaican and Iranian descent, ...

(born 1999), multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, California *

Golnar Adili Golnar Adili ( fa, گلنار عدیلی; born 1976 in Virginia) is an Iranian-born American multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Much of her work is influenced by growing up in post-Iranian Revolution in Tehran and issues of disp ...

(born 1976), artist based in Brooklyn, New York *

Shahla Aghapour Shahla Aghapour also known as Shahla Aghapour-Benakohell (شهلا آقاپور) (born in Tehran) is an Iranian artist, author and gallery director living in Germany. She works both as a writer and poet, as well as a painter, sculptor, performan ...

, painter, sculptor, performance art, author, gallery director *

Shiva Ahmadi Shiva Ahmadi (born 1975) is an Iranian-born American artist, known for her paintings, videos, and installations. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and museums in North America and the Middle East. Biography Ahmadi was born in Tehran, Ir ...

(born 1975), painter, video artist, and installation artist, based in the

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* Shirin Aliabadi (1973–2018), visual artist, previously based in Tehran * Samira Alikhanzadeh (born 1967), painter *

Morehshin Allahyari Morehshin Allahyari ( fa, موره شین اللهیاری; born 1985) is an Iranian media artist, activist, and writer based in New York. She is most noted for her projects ''Material Speculation: ISIS'' (2015–2016), which is a series of 3D-pri ...

(born 1985), artist active since 2007, educator, based in Brooklyn *

Afruz Amighi Afruz Amighi (born 1974) is an Iranian-born American sculptor and installation artist. Her work has been exhibited in the United States, London and in the Middle East. She is based in Brooklyn, New York. Early life Amighi was born in 1974 in Te ...

(born 1974), sculptor, installation art, based in Brooklyn *

Nazgol Ansarinia Nazgol Ansarinia (born 1979) is an Iranian interdisciplinary visual artist. Biography Ansarina was born in 1979 in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran. She holds a BA degree from the London College of Communication, and a MFA degree from the California Col ...

(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

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Nairy Baghramian Nairy Baghramian (born 1971) is an Iranian-born German visual artist. Since 1984, she has lived and worked in Berlin. When the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum selected Baghramian as a finalist for the 2020 Hugo Boss Prize, they described Baghram ...

(born 1971), sculpture and mixed media artist, based in Berlin * Sonia Balassanian (born 1942), Armenian-Iranian painter, sculptor, installation artist, and curator; based in New York City and Yerevan * Fatemeh Behboudi (born 1985), photographer, photojournalist

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* Shaghayegh Cyrous (born 1987), interdisciplinary, activist, and social practice artist, based in San Francisco

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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.Iran Darroudi (born 1936–2021), contemporary artist * Solmaz Daryani (born 1989), photographer * Gohar Dashti (born 1980), photographer, video artist

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Maryam Eisler Maryam Eisler (née Homayoun) is an Iranian-born, London-based artist and former Marketing, 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, I ...

, Iranian-born, London-based photographer, editor, and author *

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 Scho ...

(born 1955), sculptor

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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. ...

(born 1987), cartoonist, political activist *

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 E ...

, Iranian-born potter and ceramist *

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 The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research u ...

(born 1974), sculptor and multidisciplinary artist, based in Eugene, Oregon *

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 s ...

(born 1972), contemporary artist *

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 ...

(born 1962), sculptor and ceramist known for Iranian public art projects *

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 a ...

(1955–1996), sculpture, installation art *

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 expres ...

(born 1962), installation artist based in Germany *

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 contri ...

(born 1957), painter, writer

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* Pariyoush Ganji (born 1945), painter based in Tehran *

Mokarrameh Ghanbari Mokarrameh Ghanbari ( fa, مکرمه قنبری; born in 1928 – died October 24, 2005) was an Iranian self-taught painter who won several international art awards. She started painting at the age of 61 in 1991. Biography Mokarrameh was born i ...

(1928–2005), painter * Shadi Ghadirian (born 1974), photographer, based in Tehran * Bita Ghezelayagh (born 1966), sculptor based in Tehran and London *

Hengameh Golestan Hengameh Golestan ( fa, هنگامه گلستان; born Hengameh Jalali (), 1952) is an Iranian photographer. She is considered a pioneer among Iranian women photographers. In March 1979, when in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution women in I ...

(born 1952), photographer

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* Nahid Hagigat (born 1943), illustrator, printmaker and painter in New York *

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 ...

(born 1957), visual artist based in New York City. *

Gita Hashemi Gita Hashemi (Persian: گیتا هاشمی, born 1961) is an Iranian-born artist, writer and curator residing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her work juxtaposes history and the present, political and personal, and local and global. It draws on lang ...

(born 1961), transdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada *

Maryam Hashemi Maryam Hashemi (Persian language, Persian: مریم هاشمی) (born 1977) is an Iranian peoples, Iranian visual artist based at Hackney Wick in East London. Often working in pencil, watercolour or acrylic paint. Biography Hashemi grew up in ...

(born 1977), visual artist based in London *

Taraneh Hemami Taraneh Hemami ( Persian: ) (born 1960, in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-born American visual artist, curator, and arts educator based in San Francisco. Her works explore the complex cultural politics of exile through personal and collective, multid ...

(born 1960), visual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area * Sooreh Hera (born 1973), photographer, artist, born in Tehran * Mansooreh Hosseini (1926–2012), contemporary artist *

Shirazeh Houshiary Shirazeh Houshiary (born 15 January 1955) is an Iranian-born English sculptor, installation artist, and painter. She lives and works in London. Life and work Shirazeh Houshiary was born on 15 January 1955 in Shiraz, Iran. She left her native c ...

(born 1955), installation artist, sculptor *

Sheree Hovsepian Sheree Hovsepian (born 1974) is an Iranian Americans, Iranian-born American artist. She primarily works in photography and collage, in addition to sculpture and drawing. Her work is often concerned with the human form and matters of identity. She i ...

(born 1974), collage artist and photographer, based in New York City.

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* Rana Javadi (born 1953), photographer in Tehran. * Pouran Jinchi (born 1959), calligrapher, painter, sculptor, active in New York since 1990s

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Shokufeh Kavani Shokufeh Kavani ( fa, شکوفه کاوانی; born 1970) is an Iranian-born Australian contemporary nurse, artist, painter, and translator. She is primarily known as a translator and as an abstract painter. She is fluent in Australian English ...

(born 1970), contemporary painter based in

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Zhaleh Kazemi Zhaleh Kazemi (; née Zahra Kazemi-Azad; 3 April 1943 – 31 March 2004) was an Iranian television producer, news anchor, and painter. She was also a voice actress for Persian-dubbed films in Iranian cinema. Her dubbing work was done for many Ame ...

(1944–2003), painter * Amineh Kazemzadeh (born 1963), painter * Simin Keramati (born 1970), Iranian-born Canadian multidisciplinary visual artist and activist * Sanam Khatibi (born 1979), contemporary artist based in Belgium * Laleh Khorramian (born 1974), Iranian-American multidisciplinary visual artist *

Arghavan Khosravi Arghavan Khosravi (; born 1984) is an Iranian-born American visual artist, and illustrator. She is known for her three dimensional paintings with works that cross between the traditions of European Renaissance and Persian miniature; with themes o ...

(born 1984), Iranian-born American painter and sculptor

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* Farideh Lashai (1944–2013), abstract painter, writer, and translator

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Tala Madani Tala Madani (born 1981) is an Iranian-born American artist, well-known for her contemporary paintings, drawings, and animations. She lives in Los Angeles, California. Early life and education Madani was born in Tehran, Iran in 1981. From the ag ...

(born 1981), Iranian-born American painter *

Nadia Maftouni Nadia Maftouni ( fa, نادیا مفتونی, born 14 January 1966) is an Iranian academic, philosophical author and artist. She is best known as a leading Researcher on Farabian, Avicennian and Suhrawardian philosophy with her modern reading ...

(born 1966), painter, academic researcher, Islamic theologist, philosopher, and author * Saba Masoumian (born 1982), contemporary artist * Leyly Matine-Daftary (1937–2007), modernist artist, educator *

Sanaz Mazinani Sanaz Mazinani (born 1978) is an Iranian–born Canadian multidisciplinary visual artist, curator and educator, known for her photography and installation art. She is currently based in San Francisco and Toronto. Biography Early life Mazinani ...

(born 1978), Iranian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist, works including

installation art Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called ...

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...

Laleh Mehran Laleh Mehran (born 1968) is an Iranian-born American digital artist, and professor. She is the graduate director and a professor in emergent digital practices at the University of Denver. Mehran is known for her interactive digital installation art ...

, Iranian-American multimedia artist and professor * Alina Mnatsakanian (born 1958), Iranian-Armenian Switzerland-based visual artist *

Mandana Moghaddam Mandana Moghaddam is an Iranian-Sweden, Swedish contemporary visual artist whose Installation art, installation work was most notably exhibited in the 51st Venice Biennale. Affected by the Iranian Revolution, Moghaddam was granted asylum in Goth ...

(born 1962), Iranian-Swedish visual artist *

Neda Moridpour Neda Moridpour is an artist, Teacher, educator and organizer who is the co-founder of two artist-activist collaboratives, Louder Than Words (with S.A. Bachman) and rt Collective (with Pouya Afshar.) Moridpour's work investigates Cycle of viol ...

, Iranian-American artist, educator, active since 2012 * Noreen Motamed (born 1967), painter * Nurieh Mozaffari (born 1960), Iranian-Canadian contemporary painter

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* Malekeh Nayiny (born 1955), artist based in Paris *

Shirin Neshat Shirin Neshat ( fa, شیرین نشاط; born March 26, 1957 in Qazvin) is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and th ...

(born 1957), visual artist based in New York * Mina Nouri (born 1951), painter *

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 ...

(born 1944), Iranian-Canadian figurative painter, graphic designer

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Farah Ossouli Farah Ossouli ( fa, فرح اصولی, born 10 August 1953 in Zanjan, Iran) is an Iranian painter, based in Tehran. She is known for her modern interpretation of Persian miniature. Often her work draws on issues related to women's life, Persian ...

(born 1953), painter based in Iran

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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 ...

(born 1976), contemporary mixed-media artist, based in New York * Pantea Rahmani (born 1971), contemporary artist *

Raha Raissnia Raha Raissnia (born 1968, Tehran, Iran) is a contemporary artist based in New York City, known for her painting, drawing, filmmaking and performance art. Raissnia manipulates cinema's structural elements in loop installations and live performances. ...

(born 1968), contemporary artist *

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

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Behjat Sadr Behjat Sadr ( fa, بهجت صدر, 29 May 1924 – 11 August 2009), also known as Behjat Sadr Mahallāti, was an Iranian modern art painter whose works have been exhibited in New York, Paris, and Rome. Sadr is known for her paintings that utilizi ...

(1924–2009), impressionistic painter *

Maryam Salour Maryam Salour (born 24 September 1954 in Tehran) is an Iranian sculptor, ceramist and painter. She lives in Tehran, and previously lived in Paris. Early life and education After receiving high school diploma in Tehran, Iran, Salour moved to Lond ...

(born 1954),

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

, ceramist, painter * Ashraf os-Saltaneh (1863–1914), princess, photographer of the Qajar period, and one of the earliest women photographers and journalists * Zohreh Etezad Saltaneh (born 1962), painter, weaver, calligrapher, who works with her feet *

Golnar Servatian Golnar Servatian ( fa, گلنار ثروتیان; also Romanized as "Golnār Servatiān", ; born 1977 in Tabriz) is an Iranian cartoonist and book illustrator. Biography Golnar Servatian was born in 1977 in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, ...

(born 1977), cartoonist, illustrator *

Massoumeh Seyhoun Massumeh Noushin Seyhoun ( fa, معصومه سیحون; née Monir Noushin; 1934–21 May, 2010) was an Iranian peoples, Iranian painter, curator, and Art dealer, gallerist. She was the founder (1966) of Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran, the longest-lived a ...

(1934–2010), painter, gallerist, curator *

Hadieh Shafie Hadieh Shafie (born 1969) is an Iranian-American visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Biography She was born in Tehran, Iran, and migrated to the United States in 1983. She has a BA in Painting from University of Maryland, College Park ( ...

(born 1969), painter, based in the United States *

Shirana Shahbazi Shirana Shahbazi (; born 1974) is an Iranian-born photographer who now lives in Switzerland. Her work includes installations and large prints of conceptual photography. Biography Born in Tehran, Shahbazi moved to Germany in 1985, studying photogr ...

(born 1974), photographer, installation artist, based in Switzerland * Naz Shahrokh (born 1969), miniature painting, sculptures, installation art, land art, and video art *

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 ...

(1922–2019), best known for her mirror mosaics, sculptor, painter, textile designer * Sara Shamsavari (born 1979), British-Iranian multidisciplinary artist *

Mojgan Shajarian Mojgan Shajarian ( fa, مژگان شجریان, born 17 May 1970) is an Iranian-born painter, graphic designer, vocalist, and setar player. She is daughter of musician Mohammad-Reza Shajarian. Early life and education Mojgan Shajarian was born ...

(born 1970), Iranian painter, designer, musician * Sheida Soleimani (born 1990), Iranian-American multidisciplinary artist, based in Rhode Island

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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 ...

(born 1979), Iranian-American painter and sculptor, based in

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Newsha Tavakolian Newsha Tavakolian ( fa, نیوشا توکلیان; born 1981) is an Iranian photojournalist and documentary photographer. She has worked for ''Time'' magazine, ''The New York Times'', ''Le Figaro'', and ''National Geographic''. Her work focuses o ...

(born 1981), photographer, photojournalist

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Maryam Zandi Maryam Zandi (born 1946 in Gorgan, Iran) is an Iranian documentary photographer and author. She is best known for her photographs during the Iranian Revolution. Biography She spent her school years in Gorgan and then graduated from University ...

(born 1946), photographer * Niloofar Ziae (born 1962), painter, educator * Minoosh Zomorodinia, Iranian-born American visual artist, curator, and educator in San Francisco

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