bahman brojeni

Bahman Boroujeni (born 1942, Boroujen) is one of the prominent contemporary painters of Iran and a significant figure in the country’s modernist art movement. He began his artistic training in his youth at the Tehran School of Fine Arts for Boys, where he studied the fundamentals of design and miniature painting under the guidance of masters such as Hossein Behzad, Dr. Shokouh Riazi, and Megerdichian. Boroujeni later enrolled in the Faculty of Decorative Arts, where he pursued studies in interior architecture, graphic design, and sculpture. During this period, he was taught and influenced by renowned artists including Sohrab Sepehri, Marcos Grigorian, Hannibal Alkhas, Hossein Kazemi, Ostad Halati, Behrouzan, Madame Trian, Monsieur Girard, and Monsieur Brune. He also studied Persian calligraphy under the esteemed Ali Akbar Kaveh. His first solo exhibition was held in 1964 at the Faculty of Fine Arts, where he also won the Fine Arts Award and the Tehran Biennial Prize that same year. In 1973, he received the first prize at the Contemporary Art Exhibition of Iran. Boroujeni taught for many years at various universities and served as the head of the Faculty of Decorative Arts from 1979 to 1981. In the late 1980s, he moved to France to pursue further studies and earned a Ph.D. in Islamic Art from the University of Sorbonne. Boroujeni’s work spans a range of styles—from figurative and portraiture to expressionism and abstraction—and has been exhibited in countries such as Iran, France, the United States, Japan, Belgium, and Norway.