
Hamid Nourkeyhani is an Iranian artist born in 1947 in Tehran. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran and began his professional career in 1968 in the office of the renowned architect and artist Kamran Diba—a space that encouraged him to move beyond the boundaries of architecture and pursue his other interests: painting, sculpture, poetry, and music. Nevertheless, more than four decades of his professional life were devoted to architecture, a field that brought him numerous national and international honors, yet left little time to explore his other artistic concerns. It was in 2010 that Nourkeyhani returned to painting with renewed and focused dedication. His paintings remain deeply rooted in the visual language of architecture. Nourkeyhani revisits the drawings and plans he created over many years and reinterprets them into abstract, colorful compositions—lines, rhythms, and structures that now take on a different role: not to construct a building, but to shape an inner, poetic experience. What was once a blueprint for the future has become an echo of the past; and what once guided a structure has transformed into a fluid, personal cadence.






