The following list of notable Iranian artists (in alphabetical order by last name) includes artists of various genres, who are notable and are either born in Iran, of Iranian descent or who produce works that are primarily about Iran.
Cinema artists
Actors and actresses
Directors and filmmakers
Film score composers
Designers
Architects
Calligraphers
Fashion designers
Ray Aghayan (1928–2011) fashion designer and costume designer, Emmy Award winner.[ 1] Pegah Anvarian , Iranian-born American fashion designer, stylist, creative director, and interior designerShirin Guild (born 1946) fashion designer in LondonMehr Monir Jahanbani (1926–2018), textile designer and fashion designerArefeh Mansouri (born 1980)Hushidar Mortezaie (born 1972), fashion designer of club wear and streetwear, active in New York City and Los AngelesBehnaz Sarafpour (born 1969), fashion designer of womenswear and fragrances; based in New YorkBijan (designer) (1940–2012), fashion designer of menswear and fragrances[ 2] Mahla Zamani (born 1900)
Graphic designers
Illustrators
Mojtaba Heidarpanah (born 1990) is an Iranian cartoonist, illustrator, painter, character designer and animatorNahid Hagigat (born 1943), illustrations and paintings
Musicians and singers
Classical
See List of Iranian composers
Western classical
Electronic
Pop
Lyricists
Dancers
Theatre directors
Theatre stage actors
Visual artists
Cartoonists
Golnar Adili (born 1976)[ 3] Morehshin Allahyari (born 1985) (active since 2007), artist, activistShirin Aliabadi (1973–2018), multidisciplinary visual artist, active in Tehran and Paris.[ 4] Shahin Charmi (born 1953), Iranian-born German multidisciplinary artist and muralist.[ 5] Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1924–2019) best known for her mirror mosaics, sculptor, painter, textile designer.Ghazel (1966), visual and performance artistGita Hashemi (born 1961) (active since 1981), transdiscplinary, performance art, installations, digital and multimedia artBahman Mohasses (1931–2010), painter , sculptor, translator, and theatre directorNeda Moridpour (born 1983), artist, educator and co-founder of the artist-activist collaborative Louder than Words Shirin Neshat (born 1957), film, video and photographyHossein Nuri (born 1954), painter, dramaturge and filmmakerRamin, Rokni, Hesam (born 1975,1978,1980)Mohammad Salemy (born 1967)[ 6] Soheila Sokhanvari (born 1964), painter, sculptor, and multi-media artistSheida Soleimani , (born 1990), Iranian-American, 'constructed' tableau photography.[ 7] Daryush Shokof (born1954), artist, sculptor,script writer, film producer,video,filmmaker,singer,lyricistParviz Tanavoli (born 1937), sculptor, painter, scholar and art collectorSadegh Tirafkan (1965–2013), photography, video installation, and collageHossein Valamanesh (born 1949), Iranian-Australian public art and multimedia.[ 8] Hossein Zenderoudi (born 1937), painter and sculptorAfshin Naghouni (born 1969), painter, mixed media.[ 9] Saman and Sasan Oskouei (born 1985 & 1991), multidisciplinary artist-activists [ 10]
Painters
Reza Abbasi (c. 1565-1635)Shahla Aghapour (born 1976)Aydin Aghdashloo (born 1940)Anahita Akhavan Kamrooz Aram (born 1978)Akbar Behkalam (born 1944)Hossein Behzad (1894–1968), Modernist Persian miniature paintingsKamaleddin Behzad (1450–1535), Persian miniature paintingsDariush Borbor (born 1934)Bijan Daneshmand (born 1958)Iran Darroudi (born 1936), surrealist paintingsAli Divandari (born 1957)Ala Ebtekar (born 1978) founder and director of Art, Social Space and Public Discourse, a three-year Stanford University global initiative.[ 11] Darvish Fakhr (born 1969)Mahmoud Farshchian (born 1930), PersianGolnaz Fathi (born 1972)Pariyoush Ganji (born 1945), painter based in Tehran.Mokarrameh Ghanbari (1928–2005)Rokni Haerizadeh (born 1978)Raoof Haghighi (born 1976)Fariba Hajamadi (born 1957)Maryam Hashemi (born 1977)Khosrow Hassanzadeh (born 1963)Haydar Hatemi (born 1945), Persian miniatures and tazhibTaraneh Hemami (born 1960), visual artist based in the San Francisco Bay AreaPouran Jinchi (born 1959), abstract, calligraphy-based contemporary visual artBahram Kalhornia (born 1952)Zhaleh Kazemi (1944–2003), painterReza Khodadadi (born 1961)Iman Maleki (born 1976), realist painterMani (AD 216 - AD 277)Leyly Matine-Daftary (1937–2007), modernist artist, educator[ 12] Sirak Melkonian (1930–2024), modernist painterFarhad Moshiri (born 1963), pop artNoreen Motamed (born 1967)Hossein Nuri (born 1954)Kamal ol-Molk (1845–1940)Pantea Rahmani (born 1971)Raha Raissnia (born 1968)Ramin, Rokni, Hesam (born 1975,1978,1980)Gholamhossein Saber (born 1941)Ali Akbar Sadeghi (born 1937), surrealistAbolhassan Khan Sadighi (1894–1995)Homayoun Salimi (born 1948)Sohrab Sepehri (1928–1980), Modernist painterAlireza Shojaian (born 1988), Queer artist and LGBT activistDaryush Shokof (1954)Keyvan Shovir (born 1985), Iranian American graffiti artistMohammad Ali Taraghijah (1943–2010)Taravat Talepasand (born 1979), Iranian American painter and sculptorMohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam (1924–2018)Manoucher Yektai (1922–2019)
Photography
Sculpture and installation
Kamran Afshar Naderi (born 1959)Siah Armajani (1939–2020)Dariush Borbor (born 1934), architect, urban planner, sculptor, painter, researcher, writerFatemeh Emdadian (born 1955)Shahram Entekhabi (born 1963), contemporary sculptor[ 13] Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1924–2019)Bita Fayyazi (born 1962), public artBita Ghezelayagh (born 1966)Mandana Moghaddam (born 1962), Iranian-Swedish installation artist and sculptor[ 14] Bahman Mohasses (1931–2010), painter, sculptor, translator, and theatre directorParviz Tanavoli (born 1937)Abolhassan Khan Sadighi (1894–1995)Ramin, Rokni, Hesam (born 1975,1978,1980)Shirana Shahbazi (born 1974)Taher Shekh Al Hokamaii (born 1954), Dean of Sculpture Faculty of Tehran University and contemporary sculptor
Daryush Shokof (1954)
See also
References
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