Samira Alikhanzadeh (; born 1967) is an Iranian visual artist and painter. She lives and works in
Tehran
Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...
.
Biography
Born in Tehran, she began painting under the supervision of
Aydin Aghdashloo
Aydin Aghdashloo (; born October 30, 1940) is an Iranian painter, graphic artist, art curator, writer, and film critic.
Early life and education
Aydin Aghdashloo, the son of Mohammad-Beik Aghdashloo (Haji Ouf) and Nahid Nakhjevan, was born on ...
. She studied painting at
Alzahra University
Alzahra University (, ''Dāneshgāh-e Alzahrā'') is a Women's college, female-only public university in the Vanak neighborhood of Tehran, Iran. Alzahra University is the only comprehensive women's university in Iran and the Middle East. Accepta ...
and earned a
BFA degree in painting in 1996 and an
MA degree in painting in 1998 at
Islamic Azad University
The Islamic Azad University (IAU; , ''Dāneshgāh-e Āzād-e Eslāmi'') is a Private university, private university system Headquarters, headquartered in Tehran, Iran. It is one of the largest comprehensive systems of university, universities in ...
.
Alikhanzadeh uses
acrylic paint
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, mirrors and old found images, mainly family photographs, in her work. She uses these images from the past to explore identity and reality in modern Iran. Some works also include actual
Persian carpet
A Persian carpet ( ), Persian rug ( ),Savory, R., ''Carpets'',(Encyclopaedia Iranica); accessed 30 January 2007. or Iranian carpet is a heavy textile made for a wide variety of utilitarian and symbolic purposes and produced in Iran (histo ...
s to evoke the past.
United Arab Emirates
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, Canada, the United States and France.[ Her art is in the collection of the ]Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum).
LACMA was founded in 1961 ...
.[ Her work was in the fifth Painting Biennial of the ]Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art ( Persian: موزه هنرهای معاصر تهران), also known as TMoCA, is among the largest art museums in Tehran and Iran. It has collections of more than 3,000 items that include 19th and 20th century ...
in 2000.
See also
* List of Iranian women artists
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References
1967 births
Living people
20th-century Iranian women artists
21st-century Iranian women artists
Artists from Tehran
Islamic Azad University alumni
Al-Zahra University alumni
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