Born in 1972 in Tehran, Golnaz Fathi studied Graphic Design at Azad Art University (Tehran) and completed the calligraphic courses at Iranian Calligraphy Society. She was the first woman to win an award for Ketabat (a genre of calligraphy).

Born in 1970 in Ahwaz, Iran, Aramesh left his homelandwhen 16 and after completing his BA in Chemistry, changed his major and obtained his first class MA in Fine Arts at Goldsmith College, London...

Bita Fayazi, one of the most active multimedia artists, was born in 1962 in Tehran. She studied ceramic art with masters such as Haj Abdollah Mehri, Mehdi Anoushfar and others and held her first solo exhibition, titled Wall murals and abstract forms at Classic Gallery in Esfahan in 1993...

Monir Farmanfarmaian is one of those Iranian women of our time who brings to mind Ferdosi’s great epic Shahnameh and the verse: “That’s the way their women are, the Iranians.” Born in 1923 in the city of Qazvin, and in one of those old and now nostalgic Persian house-gardens with rooms covered with gorgeous Persian carpets, and colored windows opening to orchards full of nightingales. During the WWII, she audaciously left the occupied Iran, because .....

Sadegh Tirafkan was born in Karbala, Iraq to Iranian parents in 1965, and like all Iranian families in Iraq at that time, they were expelled by Saddam Hussein in 1971. So they fled to Iran just before the Islamic revolution. From 15 to 18, Tirafkan became a member of the youth militia, basij and participated in Iran-Iraq war in 1980s. The experience left such a deep impression on him that .....