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Iranian aFollowing is a list of Iranian artists (in alphabetical order by last name) who are notable and are either born in Iran, of Iranian descent or who produce works that are primarily about Iran.

Cinema artists

Music video directors

Alec Cartio (born 1976)

Designers

Calligraphers

Ali Adjalli (born 1939)
Gholam Hossein Amirkhani (born 1939)
Abolhassan Etessami (1903-1978)
Mir Emad Hassani (1553-1615)
Seyyed Jafar Kashfi (born 2000)
Yadollah Kaboli Khansari (born 1949)
Mishkín-Qalam (1826-1912)
Jalil Rasouli (born 1947)
Mehdi Saeedi (born 1979)
Mir Ali Tabrizi (1329-1451)
Towhidi Tabari (born 1964)

Fashion designers

Ray Aghayan (1928–2011) fashion designer and costume designer, Emmy Award winner.^[2]
Pegah Anvarian
Shirin Guild (born 1946)
Arefeh Mansouri (born 1980)
Behnaz Sarafpour
Bijan (designer) (1940–2012), fashion designer of menswear and fragrances^[3]
Mahla Zamani (born 1900)

Graphic designers

Dariush Borbor (born 1934)
Reza Abedini (born 1967)
Farshid Mesghali (born 1943)
Morteza Momayez (1935-2005)
Mehdi Saeedi (born 1979)
Ghobad Shiva (born 1940)
Reza Abbasi (1564-1635)

Illustrators

Nahid Hagigat (born 1943), illustrations and paintings

Musicians and singers

Classical

See List of Iranian composers

Iranian classical/traditional

Western classical

Electronic

Leila Arab
Deep Dish
- Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia (of Deep Dish)
- Shahram Tayebi (of Deep Dish)
Ali Movasat (DJ Aligator)
Steve Naghavi (of German industrial group And One)

Pop

Lyricists

Rock/metal

Performing artists

Comedians

Omid Djalili (born 1965)
Negin Farsad
Maz Jobrani (born 1972)
Hadi Khorsandi (born 1943)
Shaparak Khorsandi (born 1973)
Ebrahim Nabavi (born 1958)

Dancers

Theatre directors

Akbar Alizad (born 1973)
Bahram Bayzai (born 1938)
Niloofar Beyzaie (born 1967)
Shiva Boloorian (born 1979)
Hossein Nuri (born 1954)
Hossein Rajabian (born 1984)

Theatre stage actors

Shohreh Aghdashloo (born 1952)
Dariush Arjmand (born 1944)
Mehdi Bajestani (born 1974)
Shiva Boloorian (born 1979)
Behzad Farahani (born 1945)
Mohammad Reza Jozi (born 1975)
Ali Nassirian (born 1935)
Ahmad Saatchian (born 1972)
Roya Teymourian (born 1959)

Visual artists

Cartoonists

Javad Alizadeh (born 1953)
Ardeshir Mohassess (1938-2008)
Ali Divandari (born 1957)
Nikahang Kowsar (born 1969)
Mana Neyestani (born 1973)
Touka Neyestani (born 1960)

Multimedia and mixed media

Golnar Adili (born 1976)^[4]
Morehshin Allahyari (born 1985) (active since 2007), artist, activist
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1924-2019) i
Ghazel (1966), visual and performance artist
Gita Hashemi (born 1961) (active since 1981), transdiscplinary, performance art, installations, digital and multimedia art
Bahman Mohasses (1931–2010), painter, sculptor, translator, and theatre director
Neda Moridpour (born 1983), artist, educator and co-founder of the artist-activist collaborative Louder than Words
Shirin Neshat (born 1957), film, video and photography
Hossein Nuri (born 1954), painter, dramaturge and filmmaker
Mohammad Salemy (born 1967)^[5]
Daryush Shokof (born 1954), artist, film director, writer, and film producer
Sheida Soleimani, (born 1990), Iranian-American, 'constructed' tableau photography.^[6]
Parviz Tanavoli (born 1937), sculptor, painter, scholar and art collector
Sadegh Tirafkan (1965-2013), photography, video installation, and collage
Hossein Valamanesh (born 1949), Iranian-Australian public art and multimedia.^[7]
Parya Vatankhah, (born 1976), an Iranian artist and researcher who lives and works in Paris.
Hossein Zenderoudi (born 1937), painter and sculptor

Painters

Reza Abbasi (c. 1565-1635)
Shahla Aghapour (born 1976)
Aydin Aghdashloo (born 1940)
Kamrooz Aram (born 1978)
Akbar Behkalam (born 1944)
Hossein Behzad (1894–1968), Modernist Persian miniature paintings
Kamaleddin Behzad (1450–1535), Persian miniature paintings
Dariush Borbor (born 1934)
Bijan Daneshmand (born 1958)
Iran Darroudi (born 1936), surrealist paintings
Ali Divandari (born 1957)
Ala Ebtekar (born 1978) founder and director of Art, Social Space and Public Discourse, a three-year Stanford University global initiative.^[8]
Darvish Fakhr (born 1969)
Mahmoud Farshchian (born 1930), Persian
Golnaz Fathi (born 1972)
Pariyoush Ganji (born 1945), painter based in Tehran.
Mokarrameh Ghanbari (1928–2005)
Raoof Haghighi (born 1976)
Maryam Hashemi (born 1977)
Khosrow Hassanzadeh (born 1963)
Haydar Hatemi (born 1945), Persian miniatures and tazhib
Taraneh Hemami (born 1960), visual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Pouran Jinchi (born 1959), abstract, calligraphy-based contemporary visual art
Zhaleh Kazemi (1944–2003), painter
Reza Khodadadi (born 1961)
Iman Maleki (born 1976), realist painter
Mani (AD 216 - AD 277)
Leyly Matine-Daftary (1937–2007), modernist artist, educator^[9]
Farhad Moshiri (born 1963), pop art
Noreen Motamed (born 1967)
Hossein Nuri (born 1954)
Kamal ol-Molk (1845–1940)
Pantea Rahmani (born 1971)
Raha Raissnia (born 1968)
Freydoon Rassouli (born 1943), surrealist
Ali Akbar Sadeghi (born 1937), surrealist
Abolhassan Khan Sadighi (1894-1995)
Alireza Sadaghdar (born 1943)
Homayoun Salimi (born 1948)
Sohrab Sepehri (1928–1980), Modernist painter
Alireza Shojaian (born 1988), Queer artist and LGBT activist
Mohammad Ali Taraghijah (1943-2010)
Taravat Talepasand (born 1979), Iranian American painter and sculptor
Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam (1924-2018)
Manoucher Yektai (1922-2019)

Photography

Ahmad Aali (born 1935)
Abbas (1944-2018)
Ali Khan Vali (1845-1902)
Morteza Avini (1947-1993)
Gohar Dashti (born 1980)
Nader Davoodi (born 1963)
Reza Deghati (born 1952)
Rahi Rezvani (born 1978)
Shahram Entekhabi (born 1963)
Kaveh Golestan (1950-2003)
Shadi Ghadirian (born 1974)
Nasrollah Kasraian (born 1944)
Malekeh Nayiny (born 1955)
Naveed Nours (born 1963)
Hossein Rajabian (born 1984)
Jahangir Razmi (born 1947)
Sadegh Tirafkan (1965-2013)
Alfred Yaghobzadeh (born 1958)
Maryam Zandi (born 1947)

Sculpture and installation

Siah Armajani (1939-2020)
Hanieh Mohammad Bagher (born 1980)
Dariush Borbor (born 1934), architect, urban planner, sculptor, painter, researcher, writer
Fatemeh Emdadian (born 1955)
Shahram Entekhabi (born 1963), contemporary sculptor^[10]
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1924-2019)
Bita Fayyazi (born 1962), public art
Bita Ghezelayagh (born 1966)
Mandana Moghaddam (born 1962), Iranian-Swedish installation artist and sculptor^[11]
Bahman Mohasses (1931–2010), painter, sculptor, translator, and theatre director
Abolhassan Khan Sadighi (1894-1995)
Shirana Shahbazi (born 1974)
Taher Shekh Al Hokamaii (born 1954), Dean of Sculpture Faculty of Tehran University and contemporary sculptor

References

^ "Shiva Rose". IMDB. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
^ Vitello, Paul (2011-10-15). "Ray Aghayan, Costume Designer, Dies at 83". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
^ "Bijan Pakzad, Designer of High Fashion, Dies at 71". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
^ "Golnar Adili". Victori Contemporary. Archived from the original on 2016-10-06. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
^ https://esel.at/termin/75271
^ "Sheida Soleimani". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2019-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "Hossein Valamanesh". Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Australia. Retrieved 2019-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "2018 Exploring Public Art Practices Symposium". Kenneth Rainin Foundation. 2018-01-04. Retrieved 2019-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "Leyly Matin-Daftary". AskArt. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
^ "Promising Experiments". Tavoos Online. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
^ "Mandana Moghaddam: Chelgis II and the Iranian Woman". High Beam. Archived from the original on 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2016-03-24.

[1] "Shiva Rose". IMDB. Retrieved 24 March 2016.

[2] Vitello, Paul (2011-10-15). "Ray Aghayan, Costume Designer, Dies at 83". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-03-22.

[3] "Bijan Pakzad, Designer of High Fashion, Dies at 71". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2016-03-24.

[4] "Golnar Adili". Victori Contemporary. Archived from the original on 2016-10-06. Retrieved 2016-04-10.

[5] ttps://esel.at/termin/75271

[6] "Sheida Soleimani". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2019-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[7] "Hossein Valamanesh". Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Australia. Retrieved 2019-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[8] "2018 Exploring Public Art Practices Symposium". Kenneth Rainin Foundation. 2018-01-04. Retrieved 2019-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[9] "Leyly Matin-Daftary". AskArt. Retrieved 2016-03-24.

[10] "Promising Experiments". Tavoos Online. Retrieved 2016-05-17.

[11] "Mandana Moghaddam: Chelgis II and the Iranian Woman". High Beam. Archived from the original on 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2016-03-24.

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