Curriculum Vitae
I was born in 1959 in Urmia and moved to Tehran when I was four years old. I started my education in Tehran. I showed such great interest in sports and art since early childhood that I did not see anything else. I was either drawing something or playing with a plastic ball.
Due to the weakness of the educational system in art, our Persian and math teacher was also our art teacher and he usually knew nothing about art and functioned as the supervisor of the drawing class. I remember that in elementary school and middle school, my teacher told me to go to the board and draw something or write a calligraphy model so that other students would follow my model. I gradually started to wonder: who should I learn from? Even from childhood, I had a subconscious sense of teaching which was always with me and made me restless. Later, I recognized this feeling in poetry and literature; it was love. It is the melody coming from everything and what opens to talk… the same thing that unsettles peace and pacifies agitation.
My first triumph was when I was at the first grade of middle school and I achieved the first and second places in calligraphy and drawing in the art competitions held among the districts of Tehran. Our reward was a one-week camping trip to Ramsar. Afterwards, I went to Boys’ Fine Arts High School of Tehran and I achieved the second rank among at least 300 participants of the admission examination. Here, I was indulged in the teachings of my instructors in painting, Asadollahzadeh, Alivandi and Izadpanah, in sculpture, Azar Fahimi and in Iranian painting, Takestani, Mehregan and Farshchian. I graduated from the fine arts high school in 1979 and thereafter, the untouched nature became my everlasting instructor.
• First Order of Merit (Honorary Doctorate) awarded by Iran’s Ministry of Culture in Tehran, 2011
• Stylist artist in Iranian contemporary and classical painting
• Inventive in Iranian motifs and ornamental design both contemporary and classical
Education
• General painting and courses on Iranian miniature, graphic design, decorative arts, and pottery at Fine Arts School in Tehran, 1975-79
Artistic Activities
• Carpet design, bank-note design, art and architecture
• Designer and leader of an interactive performance of folk music of Iranian Mazandaran province, painting, and design at the School of Architecture and Art of the Shomal University in Amol, Iran, 2018
• Implementation of carpet-design projects at Rassam Arabzadeh Carpet Museum, Tehran,1997-98
Teaching Experiences
• First Order of Merit in Teaching Arts awarded by the Center for the Development Teaching Arts of Teaching Arts of Iran’s Ministry of Culture
• Over thirty years of teaching experience at universities and institutes in the fields of Western and Iranian paintings, carpet design, handicrafts, sculpture, art in architecture as well as artistic infrastructure of fashion designing
• Carpet designer whose several works have been woven into precious carpets as well as an instructor of carpet designing at Rassam Arabzadeh Carpet Museum, Tehran, 1997-98.
Exhibitions and Workshops
• Participation in over fifty group shows and solo exhibitions, art festivals and biennials
• Participation in an exhibition and holding a workshop for the commemoration ceremony of the Iranian Classical Poet Nizami Ganjavi, Amol, 2021
• Displaying works at the Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Arts in Moscow, 2019
• Participation in Iran’s Cultural Week Exhibition in Ufa, Russia, 2018
• Showcasing works in the exhibition of paintings at the School of Architecture and Art of the Shomal University in Amol, Iran, 2018
• Solo exhibition as well as a workshop on contemporary Iranian painting held at Almaty University, Kazakhstan: Almaty, 2015
• Participation in the Persian Miniature Exhibition held for the Commemoration of the Iranian Classical Poet Ferdowsi at the S’adabad Palace Complex in Tehran, 2017
• Participation in a solo painting exhibition held at Arta Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2005
• Showcasing miniature paintings as one of the six handpicked Iranian artists at the Two Cultures, One Art Exhibition (2 Kulture, 1 Sanat) Istanbul, Turkey, 2003
• Persian miniature group-exhibitions in Niavaran Cultural Centre, Tehran, 2002
• A two-year Persian gallery of paintings and interior designs, Doha Qatar, 1995
• Participation in the International Exhibition of Iranian Painting, Doha, Qatar, 1994
• Designing and processing banknotes for the Republic of Azerbaijan, on the order of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), 1991
Awards and Recognitions
• Plaque of Honor at the commemoration ceremony of the Iranian classical poet Nizami Ganjavi, Amol, Iran, 2021
• Plaque of Appreciation granted by the Almaty University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2015
• Plaque of Appreciation and Diploma of Honor for participation in the Masters Section of the 4th Fajr International Visual Arts Festival, Tehran, 2011
• Plaque and statue of Honor awarded by the 7th Iranian national Biennial of Persian Painting, Tehran, 2009
• Plaque of Appreciation and Diploma of Honor for participation in the Masters Section of the 2nd Fajr International Visual Arts Festival, Tehran, 2009
• Plaque of Appreciation for participation in the exhibition of the Two Cultures, One Art Exhibition (2 Kulture, 1 Sanat) Istanbul, Turkey, 2003
• Plaque of Hon0r granted by the 5th Iranian National Biennial of Persian Painting, Tehran, 2002
Memberships in Jury Panels
• Member of the selection board the jury panel at the 7th Cultural Artistic Festival of Iranian Students of Medical Sciences held at the Medical Sciences Academy of Shiraz University, 2015
• Member of the selection board and the jury panel at the 9th Iranian National Biennial of Persian Painting, Tehran, 2014
• Member of the selection board and the jury Panel at the 5th Fajr International Visual Arts Festival , Tehran, Iran, 2012
• Member of the jury in the 8th Iranian National Biennial of Persian Painting, Tehran, 2011
Lectures and Interviews
• Delivering a lecture titled “The influence of Persian Poetry on the Iranian Miniature” at the Commemoration Ceremony of the Iranian Classical Poet Nizami Ganjavi, Amol, 2021
• Delivering a lecture titled “Iranian Contemporary Painting” at Almaty University, Kazakhstan: Almaty, 2015
• Making a speech titled “Dialogue among the Traditional Arts of Nations” at the Two Cultures, One Art Exhibition (2 Kulture, 1 Sanat) Istanbul, Turkey, 2003
• TV interviews broadcast from various channels in Tehran and Toronto TV and radio (Canada).
Works Purchased by
• Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts
• Rudaki Cultural and Artistic Foundation in Tehran
• Museum of the Art Center in Tehran
Publications
• Published miniature paintings in the book Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Tehran: Okta Publications, 2012
• A published painting in the book of the 8th Iranian National Biennial of Persian Painting
• A published painting in the 5th Biennial of Islamic Iranian Painting, Tehran, Iran, 2002
• A published painting in the book, Pure Wine: Selected Works of Iran’s Contemporary Persian Painting, 2000
• Published articles in various journals in Iran, Qatar and Turkey
