List of Iranian painters

The following is a list of Iranian painters.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Classical era

• Reza Abbasi
• Mihr 'Ali
• Kamaleddin Behzad
• Farrukh Beg

Modern era

A

• Aghapour, Shahla
• Aghdashloo, Aydin
• Alikhanzadeh, Samira (1967– ), painter
• Alivandi, Bahram
• Arabshahi, Massoud (1935–2019), painter
• Aram, Kamrooz (1978– ), painter
• Siah Armajani, conceptual artist

B

• Bakhshpour, Jamal
• Behzad, Hossein
• Borbor, Dariush

D

• Delara Darabi
• Iran Darroudi
• Mir Abdolrez Daryabeigi
• Ali Divandari
• Bijan Daneshmand

E

• Abolhassan Etessami (1903–1978), architect, calligrapher, painter, and novelist
• Zohreh Etezad ol-Saltan, artist, painter, carpet weaver

F

• Amir H. Fallah (1979– ), Iranian born, American painter based in Los Angeles
• Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
• Farshchian, Mahmouad (1930– )

G

• Ghanbari, Mokarrameh (1928–2005), heuristic and self made painter
• Ghandriz, Mansoor, painter
• Marcos Grigorian, painter

H

• Raoof Haghighi
• Fariba Hajamadi
• Khosrow Hassanzadeh
• Haydar Hatemi
• Mansooreh Hosseini
• Mehdi Hosseini

J

• Pouran Jinchi

K

• Abbas Katouzian
• Kamal-ol-Molk
• keikhosro khoroush
• Kazemi, Zhaleh (1944–2005), painter, news anchor, and producer
• Shokoufeh Kavani
• Khodadadi, Reza

L

• Farideh Lashai (1944– ), painter

M

• Iman Maleki
• Leyly Matine-Daftary (1937–2007), modernist painter, educator
• Farshid Mesghali (1943– ), graphic designer, illustrator, and author
• Mohammad Modabber (1890–1966), painter
• Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam (1924–2018), painter and professor of art
• Farhad Moshiri
• Noreen Motamed
• Mir-Hossein Mousavi (1941– ), painter, architect and politician

N

• Naderi Yeganeh, Hamid (1990– ), Iranian mathematical artist
• Afshin Naghouni (1969-), Iranian-British visual artist
• Neshat, Shirin (1957– ), Iranian-American artist, photographer and filmmaker
• Nodjoumi, Nicky (1942– ), Iranian-American painter
• Nouri, Mina (1951– ), Iranian painter, and printmaker
• Novin, Guity (1944– ), Iranian-Canadian figurative painter, and graphic designer
• Nuri, Hossein (1954– ), Iranian painter, dramaturge, and filmmaker

O

• Kazem Ordoobadi (1919–2002), painter

P

• Kour Pour (1987– ), Iranian-British painter, printmaker

R

• Shokouh Riazi (1921–1965), modernist painter

S

• Gholamhossein Saber (born 1941), painter and photographer
• Sadeghi, Ali Akbar (1937– ), painter
• Sadeghi Amini, Farhad
• Sadr, Behjat
• Salimi, Homayoun (1948– ), painter and academic
• Samad, Khwaja Abdus (16th century), painter and one of the founders of the Mughal school of painting in India
• Sohrab Sepehri
• Shafrazi, Tony
• Shahrokh, Naz (born 1969 )
• Keyvan Shovir (born 1985), Iranian-born American graffiti artist

T

• Amir Shayesteh Tabar (1967– ), painter and poet
• Towhidi Tabari (1964– ), painter and Persian style illuminator
• Jazeh Tabatabai (1931–2008), avant-garde painter, poet, and sculptor
• Taravat Talepasand (1979– ), Iranian American painter, sculptor
• Mohammad Ali Taraghijah
• Parviz Tanavoli, sculptor

V

• Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam

Z

• Zenderoudi, Hossein (1937– ), painter and sculptor
• Ziapour, Jalil