Black-and-white portrait of Iran Darroudi

Iran Darroudi (1936–2021), born in Neyshabur, was an Iranian painter, writer and documentary filmmaker. Her painting and cultural work developed through a long career in Iran and internationally.

Visual Language and Media

Light, colour and evocative spaces are central to her paintings. Landscape often moves beyond direct representation towards an imagined, poetic environment.

Education and Training

Art studies in Paris, including the École des Beaux-Arts and École du Louvre; stained-glass training in Brussels and television production studies in New York.

Artistic Practice and Projects

Numerous exhibitions, art documentaries and art-history teaching; author of the autobiography In the Distance between Two Points.

Works at HICHAA

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