List of Iranian painters

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This is a list of notable Iranian painters and illustrators.

Classical era

Ancient Persia

• Mani
• Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi

Classical Persian painter

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

Modern era

A

• Aghapour, Shahla
• Aghdashloo, Aydin
• Alivandi, Bahram
• Arabshahi, Massoud (1935- ), painter
• Aram, Kamrooz (1978- ), painter
• Siah Armajani, conceptual artist

B

• Behzad, Hossein
• Bakhshpour, Jamal

D

• Ali Divandari
• Delara Darabi
• Iran Darroudi

E

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

F

• Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
• Fakhr Yaseri, Farzin
• Farshchian, Mahmouad (1930-)

G

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

H

• Khosrow Hassanzadeh
• Haydar Hatemi
• Mansooreh Hosseini
• Mehdi Hosseini

J

• Pouran Jinchi

K

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

L

• Farideh Lashai (1944- ), painter

M

• Iman Maleki
• Farshid Mesghali (born 1943) graphic designer, illustrator, and author
• Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam (born 1924) painter and professor of art
• Farhad Moshiri
• Hanieh Mohammad Bagher (born 1980) painter, wooden inlay, carving and interlace
• Noreen Motamed
• Mir-Hossein Mousavi (born 1941) painter, architect and politician

N

• Neshat, Shirin (born 1957), Iranian-American artist, photographer and filmmaker
• Nodjoumi, Nicky (born 1942), Iranian-American painter
• Nouri, Mina (born 1951), Iranian painter, and printmaker
• Novin, Guity (born 1944), Iranian-Canadian figurative painter, and graphic designer
• Nuri, Hossein (born 1954), Iranian painter, dramaturge, and filmmaker

O

• Kazem Ordoobadi (1919–2002) painter

R

• Rassouli, Freydoon

S

• 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 (1969- )
• Daryush Shokof
• Sadaghdar, Alireza (1943- ), painter
• Sharafi, Samira (1989- ), painter

T

• Towhidi Tabari (1964- ), painter and Persian style illuminator
• Jazeh Tabatabai (1931–2008), avant-garde painter, poet, and sculptor
• Mohammad Ali Taraghijah
• Parviz Tanavoli, sculptor

V

• Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam
• Parya Vatankhah

Z

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