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 * Farrukh Beg *

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 Persia ...

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, 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 Iran Darroudi ( fa, ایران درودی; 2 September 1936 – 29 October 2021) was an Iranian contemporary artist. Her art consists of surreal paintings dealing with Iranian themed imagery and strong lighting. She lived between Tehran and Par ...

* Mir Abdolrez Daryabeigi *

Ali Divandari Ali Divandari ( fa, علی دیواندری; also Romanized as Alī Divāndarī, ; Born 6 September 1957 in Sabzevar) is an Iranian cartoonist, painter, graphic designer, sculptor and journalist. Biography Divandari studied graphics at the Fac ...

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 * Farshchian, Mahmouad (1930– )

G

* 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

H

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 Identity ...

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 y ...

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 aft ...

* 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 Music ...

J

Pouran Jinchi Pouran Jinchi (born 1959 in Mashhad, Iran) is an Iranian-American, New York-based artist. She is best known for her abstract, calligraphy-based contemporary visual art. Biography Pouran Jinchi borrows from her Iranian cultural traditions of lite ...

K

Abbas Katouzian Abbas Katouzian (1923 – April 12, 2008) was an Iranian painter and artist. Born in Tehran, Katouzian studied art history during his childhood and chose Kamalolmolk as his mentor. He followed the latter in developing the realistic movement i ...

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 w ...

* 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 (1943– ), graphic designer, illustrator, and author * Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam (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 (1987– ), Iranian-British painter, printmaker

R

* Shokouh Riazi (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, Ah ...

* Shafrazi, Tony * Shahrokh, Naz (born 1969 ) * Keyvan Shovir (born 1985), Iranian-born American graffiti artist

T

* Amir Shayesteh Tabar (1967– ), painter and poet * Towhidi Tabari (1964– ), painter and Persian style illuminator * Jazeh Tabatabai (1931–2008), avant-garde painter, poet, and sculptor * Taravat Talepasand (1979– ), Iranian American painter, sculptor *

Mohammad Ali Taraghijah Mohammad-Ali Taraghijah ( fa, محمدعلی ترقی‌جاه; 1943 – August 12, 2010) was an Iranian peoples, Iranian painter, whose work often featured rural, Iranian, landscape imagery. Biography Born 1943 in Tehran, Iran. He graduated f ...

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

V

* Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam

Z

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

Notes

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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 ...

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