List of Iranian artists
Following 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
Actors and actresses
- Akbar Abdi
- Golab Adineh
- Mahnaz Afshar
- Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Pegah Ahangarani
- Taraneh Alidousti
- Jahangir Almasi
- Daryoush Arjmand
- Delkash
- Omid Djalili
- Bizhan Emkanian
- Ezzatollah Entezami
- Homayoun Ershadi
- Parviz Fannizadeh
- Behzad Farahani
- Golshifteh Farahani
- Shaghayegh Farahani
- Mohammad Ali Fardin
- Farimah Farjami
- Bita Farrahi
- Hamid Farrokhnezhad
- Jahangir Forouhar
- Leila Forouhar
- Mohammad Reza Foroutan
- Faramarz Gharibian
- Googoosh
- Mohammad Reza Golzar
- Azita Hajian
- Kazem HajirAzad
- Mehdi Hashemi
- Leila Hatami
- Amin Hayaee
- Niki Karimi
- Kamshad Kooshan
- Mohammad Ali Keshavarz
- Reza Kianian
- Majid Majidi
- Marshall Manesh
- Jamshid Mashayekhi
- Mahvash
- Mehran Modiri
- Bahman Mofid
- Ali Mosaffa
- Fatemeh Motamed-Aria
- Ahmad Najafi
- Ali Nassirian
- Roya Nonahali
- Roxanne Pallett
- Parviz Parastouee
- Mahaia Petrosian
- Parsa Pirouzfar
- Saeed Rad
- Bahram Radan
- Davoud Rashidi
- Shiva Rose (1969), Iranian-American actress located in Los Angeles[1]
- Homa Rousta
- Parviz Sayyad
- Khosrow Shakibaee
- Mohammad Reza Sharifinia
- Jamileh Sheykhi
- Daryush Shokof
- Sussan Taslimi
- Hedyeh Tehrani
- Behrouz Vossoughi
- Merila Zarei
Directors and filmmakers
- Morteza Avini
- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
- Bahram Beizai
- Shahram Entekhabi
- Bahman Farman-Ara
- Mitra Farahani
- Ramin Farahani
- Iraj Ghaderi
- Behrooz Gharibpoor
- Bahman Ghobadi
- Ali Hatami
- Ebrahim Hatamikia
- Mahboubeh Honarian
- Ardeshir Irani
- Abolfazl Jalili
- Varuzh Karim-Masihi
- Samuel Khachikian
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Masoud Kimiai
- Parviz Kimiavi
- Kamshad Kooshan
- Esma'il Kooshan
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Samira Makhmalbaf
- Majid Majidi
- Darius Mehrjui
- Mehran Modiri
- Rasoul Mollagholipour
- Amir Naderi
- Hossein Nuri
- Jafar Panahi
- Babak Payami
- Hossein Rajabian
- Ali Samadi Ahadi
- Amir Shahab Razavian
- Abdolhossein Sepanta
- Sohrab Shahid-Sales
- Kamran Shirdel
- Daryush Shokof
- Khosrow Sinai
- Kamal Tabrizi
- Nasser Taghvai
Film score composers
Music video directors
Designers
Calligraphers
Fashion designers
- Pegah Anvarian
- Shirin Guild
- Arefeh Mansouri
- Behnaz Sarafpour
- Bijan (designer) (1940–2012), fashion designer of menswear and fragrances[2]
- Mahla Zamani
Graphic designers
Illustrators
- Nahid Hagigat (1943), illustrations and paintings
Musicians and singers
Classical
Iranian classical/traditional
- Hossein Alizadeh
- Axiom of Choice
- Gholam-Hossein Banan
- Sima Bina, folkloric music
- Delkash
- Mirza Abdollah Farahani
- Morteza Hannaneh
- Kayhan Kalhor
- Kamkarha
- Ruhollah Khaleghi
- Fariborz Lachini
- Mehdi Rajabian
- Mohammad Reza Lotfi
- Javad Maroofi
- Marzieh
- Shahram Nazeri
- Parisa
- Abolhasan Saba
- Mohammad Shams
- Homayoun Shajarian
- Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
- Alinaghi Vaziri
- Jalal Zolfonun
- Mahmoud Zoufonoun
- Zyriab
Western classical
Electronic
- Leila Arab
- Deep Dish
- Ali Movasat (DJ Aligator)
- Steve Naghavi (of German industrial group And One)
- Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia (of Deep Dish)
- Shahram Tayebi (of Deep Dish)
Pop
- Afshin
- Arash
- Arian Band
- Aref
- Alireza Assar
- Andy Madadian
- Anousheh Khalili
- Bahador Kharazmi
- Benyamin Bahadori
- Bijan Mortazavi
- Cameron Cartio
- Darius Danesh
- Dariush Eghbali
- Delkash
- Ebi (Ebrahim Hamedi)
- Faramarz Aslani
- Farhad (Farhad Mehrad)
- Siavash Ghomayshi
- Googoosh
- Habib
- Hamed Baradaran
- Hayadeh
- Hassan Shamaizadeh
- Hodi
- Kouros
- Leila Forouhar
- Mahasti
- Mahvash
- Mansour
- Mehrdad
- Mohammad Nouri
- Moein
- Morteza Pashaei
- Omid
- Pyruz
- Reza Sadeghi
- Hassan Sattar
- Sepideh
- Shadmehr Aghili
- Susan Roshan
- Shahkar Binesh Pazhooh
- Saeed
- Shahram Shabpareh
- Shahrum K
- Vigen
Lyricists
Rock/metal
Performing artists
Comedians
Dancers
Theatre directors
Theatre stage actors
Visual artists
Cartoonists
Multimedia and mixed media
- Golnar Adili (1976)[3]
- Morehshin Allahyari (active since 2007), artist, educator
- Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaiani
- Gita Hashemi (active since 1981), transdiscplinary, performance art, installations, digital and multimedia art
- Bahman Mohasses (1931–2010), painter, sculptor, translator, and theatre director
- Neda Moridpour, artist, educator and co-founder of the artist-activist collaborative Louder than Words
- Shirin Neshat (1957), film, video and photography
- Hossein Nuri, painter, dramaturge and filmmaker
- Mohammad Salemy [4]
- Daryush Shokof, artist, film director, writer, and film producer
- Parviz Tanavoli, sculptor, painter, scholar and art collector
- Sadegh Tirafkan, photography, video installation, and collage
- Parya Vatankhah, (born 1976),an Iranian artist and researcher who lives and works in Paris. Her artworks employ a diverse set of media and techniques ranging from painting, video, photography, installation and performance.
- Hossein Zenderoudi, painter and sculptor
Painting
- Reza Abbasi
- Shahla Aghapour
- Aydin Aghdashloo
- Kamrooz Aram
- Nasser Assar (b. 1928) -calligraphy-based contemporary art[5]
- Akbar Behkalam
- Hossein Behzad (1894–1968), Modernist Persian miniature paintings
- Kamaleddin Behzad (1450–1535), Persian miniature paintings
- Dariush Borbor
- Iran Darroudi (born 1936), surrealist paintings
- Ali Divandari
- Darvish Fakhr
- Mahmoud Farshchian (born 1930), Persian
- Golnaz Fathi
- Mokarrameh Ghanbari (1928–2005)
- 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
- Taraneh Javanbakht (born 1974), Iranian-Canadian painter
- Iman Maleki (born 1976), realist painter
- Mani
- Leyly Matine-Daftary (1937–2007), modernist artist, educator[6]
- Farhad Moshiri (born 1963), pop art
- Noreen Motamed (born 1967)
- Hossein Nuri
- Kamal ol-Molk (1845–1940)
- Pantea Rahmani (born 1971)
- Freydoon Rassouli (1943), surrealist
- Ali Akbar Sadeghi (1937), surrealist
- Abolhassan Khan Sadighi
- Alireza Sadaghdar
- Homayoun Salimi
- Sohrab Sepehri (1928–1980), Modernist painter
- Mohammad Ali Taraghijah
- Taravat Talepasand (1979), Iranian American painter and sculptor
- Parya Vatankhah, (born 1976),an Iranian artist and researcher who lives and works in Paris. Her artworks employ a diverse set of media and techniques ranging from painting, video, photography, installation and performance.
- Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam
- Manoucher Yektai
Photography
Sculpture and installation
- Shirin Abedinirad
- Siah Armajani
- Hanieh Mohammad Bagher
- Dariush Borbor architect, urban planner, sculptor, painter, researcher, writer
- Fatemeh Emdadian
- Shahram Entekhabi (born 1955), contemporary sculptor[7]
- Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
- Bita Fayyazi (born 1962), public art
- Bita Ghezelayagh
- Taraneh Javanbakht
- Mandana Moghaddam (1962), Iranian-Swedish installation artist and sculptor[8]
- Bahman Mohasses (1931–2010), painter, sculptor, translator, and theatre director
- Abolhassan Khan Sadighi
- Shirana Shahbazi
- Taher Shekh Al Hokamaii Dean of Sculpture Faculty of Tehran University and contemporary sculptor[9]
See also
- Hurufiyya movement - label given to calligraphy-based visual artists
- List of Iranian Americans
- List of Iranian painters
- List of Iranian women artists
- List of Iranian writers
- Iranian modern and contemporary art
References
- ↑ "Shiva Rose". IMDB. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ↑ "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. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
- ↑ https://esel.at/termin/75271
- ↑ Ali, W., Modern Islamic Art: Development and Continuity, University of Florida Press, 1997, p. 156
- ↑ "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. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
- ↑ "Taher Shekh Al Hokamaii". Wikipedia. 2017-03-08.
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