List of Iranian artists
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Following is a list of Iranian artists (in alphabetical order by last name) who are notable for their art.
Cinema artists
See also: Cinema of Iran
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
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- 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
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Darius Mehrjui
- Mehran Modiri
- Rasoul Mollagholipour
- Amir Naderi
- Hossein Nuri
- Jafar Panahi
- Babak Payami
- 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
Calligraphists
- Gholam Hossein Amirkhani
- Abolhassan Etessami
- Mir Emad Hassani
- Seyyed Jafar Kashfi
- Yadollah Kaboli Khansari
- Mishkín-Qalam
- Jalil Rasouli
- Mehdi Saeedi
- Mir Ali Tabrizi
- Towhidi Tabari
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
- 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
- Lily Afshar
- Aminollah Hossein
- Mehdi Hosseini
- Lotfi Mansouri
- Nader Mashayekhi
- Ali Rahbari
- Anoushiravan Rohani
- Shahrdad Rohani
- Heshmat Sandjari
- Loris Tjeknavorian (Loris Cheknavarian)
Electronic
- Leila Arab
- Deep Dish
- Ali Movasat (DJ Aligator)
- Steve Naghavi (of German industrial group And One)
- Omid Nourizadeh
- 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
- Hayadeh
- Hassan Shamaizadeh
- Hodi
- Kouros
- Leila Forouhar
- Mahasti
- Mahvash
- Mansour
- Mehrdad
- Mohammad Nouri
- Moein
- Morteza Pashaei
- Nooshafarin
- 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
- Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Dariush Arjmand
- Mehdi Bajestani
- Shiva Boloorian
- Behzad Farahani
- Mohammad Reza Jozi
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Ali Nassirian
- Ahmad Saatchian
- Roya Teymourian
Visual artists
Cartoonists
- Javad Alizadeh
- Ardeshir Mohassess
- Ali Divandari
- Nikahang Kowsar
- Mana Neyestani
- Touka Neyestani
- Seyedmeysam Aghaseyedhosseini
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.
- Daryush Shokof, artist, film director, writer, and film producer
- Parviz Tanavoli, sculptor, painter, scholar and art collector
- Sadegh Tirafkan, photography, video installation, and collage
- Hossein Zenderoudi, painter and sculptor
- Yashar Azar Emdadian, transdiscplinary, sculptor, video performance, installations
Painting
See also: List of Iranian painters
- Davood Emdadian
- Reza Abbasi
- Shahla Aghapour
- Aydin Aghdashloo
- Kamrooz Aram
- Akbar Behkalam
- Hossein Behzad (1894–1968), Modernist Persian miniature paintings
- Kamaleddin Behzad (1450–1535) Persian miniature paintings
- Iran Darroudi (born 1936) surrealist paintings
- Ali Divandari
- Darvish Fakhr
- Mahmoud Farshchian (born 1930) Persian miniature paintings
- Mokarrameh Ghanbari (1928–2005)
- Maryam Hashemi (born 1977)
- Khosrow Hassanzadeh (born 1963)
- Haydar Hatemi (born 1945) Persian miniatures and tazhib
- Taraneh Hemami
- Pouran Jinchi (born 1959) abstract, calligraphy-based contemporary visual art
- Zhaleh Kazemi
- Reza Khodadadi
- Iman Maleki (born 1976) realist painter
- Mani
- Leyly Matine-Daftary (1937–2007) modernist artist, educator[4]
- Farhad Moshiri (born 1963) Pop art
- Noreen Motamed (born 1967)
- Hossein Nuri
- Kamal ol-Molk (1845–1940)
- Freydoon Rassouli (1943) surrealist
- Ali Akbar Sadeghi (1937) surrealist
- Abolhassan Khan Sadighi
- Alireza Sadaghdar
- Homayoun Salimi
- Sohrab Sepehri (1928–1980) Modernist painter
- Daryush Shokof
- Mohammad Ali Taraghijah
- Taravat Talepasand (1979) Iranian American painter and sculpture
- Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam
- Manoucher Yektai
- Hossein Zenderoudi
Photography
- Ahmad Aali
- Abbas
- Ali Khan Vali
- Morteza Avini
- Gohar Dashti
- Nader Davoodi
- Reza Deghati
- Rahi Rezvani
- Shahram Entekhabi
- Kaveh Golestan
- Nasrollah Kasraian
- Malekeh Nayiny
- Naveed Nours
- Jahangir Razmi
- Sadegh Tirafkan
- Alfred Yaghobzadeh
- Maryam Zandi
Sculpture and installation
- Siah Armajani
- Hanieh Mohammad Bagher
- Fatemeh Emdadian
- Shahram Entekhabi (born 1955) contemporary sculptor[5]
- Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
- Bita Fayyazi (born 1962) Public art
- Bita Ghezelayagh
- Mandana Moghaddam (1962) Iranian-Swedish installation artist and sculptor[6]
- Bahman Mohasses (1931–2010) painter, sculptor, translator, and theatre director
- Abolhassan Khan Sadighi
- Shirana Shahbazi
See also
- 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.
- ↑ "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.
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