It is years now that Farhad Moshiri, the Iranian painter and installation artist is a known figure on an international scale. General reception of art critics as well as his successive achievements in international art auctions outside Iran are the main factors which helped him reach such an exceptional fame and esteem. However in his home country, his presence has not been felt as much. In the famous Christie’s art auction of 2008, his piece “Love” made a record in the price of art works which is something unique and exemplary for a young Iranian artist. However, success in selling is not the only factor which has turned him into an exceptional artist; he has also accomplished a personal language and style quite early in his artistic career, thus making his works distinct and special...

Born in 1948, with nearly five decades of lively presence on the scene of visual arts, Parvaneh Etemadi is one of the most successful and popular Iranian artists both in the eyes of art virtuosos and laymen. Her relaxed recusant work style, whether in the early periods of her artistic activity – that is in her still lives, termeh-s (roughly meaning cashmeres) and pomegranates – or in her later periods – that is in her collages and installations –put her amongst the prominent figures in Iranian art. It is in the light of her working style and methodology, her attentive interest in creation of beauty - while heeding both exotic and mundane zeal and taste - her passion for figurative art, her sundry coloring and creation of beauty by virtue of heeding intelligent and pleasing proportions and rhythms that turns every exhibition she holds into an event in the field of contemporary Iranian visual art.

Born in 1941, the graphic designer, art director and painter, a highly revered influential figure of Iranian modern arts, Kamran Katouzian successfully managed to combine Iranian traditions and major elements of Iranian visual arts and incorporate them in the well-known frame-works of the contemporary global art. Although as a prominent influential painter, his appearance on the scene of arts happened with long intervals and with great contemplation, nevertheless his artistic activities on the scene of graphic arts and advertisement on one hand and Iranian abstract arts on the other, did not stay hidden from the eyes of art virtuoso, colleagues, art critics and art historians.