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Hossein Mahjoubi, the renowned Iranian painter and architect, was born in 1930 in Lahijan, Iran. He developed a passion for painting from an early age. In 1950, thanks to the support of Dr. Mohammad-Ali Mojtahedi, he moved to Tehran to continue his education at Alborz High School. In 1959, he graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran with a degree in painting and simultaneously completed coursework in architecture. Even before completing his studies, Mahjoubi won first prize at the Iran-America Society group exhibition in 1956, marking the beginning of his professional artistic career. Over the years, he held more than 90 solo exhibitions across Iran, Europe, the United States, Africa, and Asia, and participated in hundreds of group shows. His contributions to architecture are also noteworthy. In 1963, he designed the iconic Saei Park in Tehran and later supervised the development of several major urban parks, including Mellat, Laleh, Niavaran, Jamshidieh, Shafagh, Khazaneh, and the first desert parks in Iran. Mahjoubi’s artistic style is poetic, imaginative, and nature-oriented, earning him the title “Painter of Paradise.” In 1978, he was nominated for the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award for his illustrations in the book The Legend of Rain. In 2018, he received the “Art for Peace” Honorary Award. In 2021, to mark his 91st birthday, a dedicated gallery of his works was inaugurated at the Negarestan Garden Museum, and a street in Tehran was named in his honor.
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Solo Exhibitions
1958 Faculty Club of Mehrgan, Tehran
1964 Saba Gallery, Tehran
1965 Burgess Gallery, Tehran
1972 Saint Paul Gallery, Stockholm
1975 Gallery 92, Tehran
1980 French Cultural Institute, Tehran
1983 Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
1990 Chahar Gallery, Tehran
1991 Aurum Gallery, Montreux, Switzerland
1993 Hakim Nezami Gallery, Tehran
1999 Aurum Gallery, Montreux, Switzerland
2000 Hourian Gallery, San Francisco
2000 Atbin Gallery, Tehran
2001 City Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
2002 City Hall, New Delhi, India
2004 Iranian Consulate, Frankfurt
2005 Iranian Academy of Arts, Tehran
2005 Sanandaj Cultural Center, Kurdistan
2010 Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia
2014 Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
2015 Retrospective, Honar Gallery, Tehran
2017 Horses and Trees, Chahar Gallery, Tehran
Group Exhibitions (2018–2025)
2018 Open Sale, Azad Art Designers Gallery, Tehran
2018 I Am Sohrab Sepehri, Didi Museum Gallery, Mazandaran
2018 Painting Exhibition, White Line Gallery, Tehran
2018 The Collector, Artibition Gallery, Tehran
2018 From Astara to Astarabad, Panj Gallery, Nowshahr
2019 The Collector 3, Artibition Gallery, Tehran
2019 Kama Chain, Baroque Gallery, Tehran
2019 Khobreh Negar (Expert View), Negar Gallery, Tehran
2019 Glow-in-the-Dark 7, Azad Art Designers Gallery, Tehran
2020 Masters of Iranian Art, Negar Gallery, Tehran
2020 Perspective, Javid Gallery, Tehran
2020 One by One, Azad Art Designers Gallery, Tehran
2021 Nature with Soul, Sales Gallery, Tehran
2021 Nasut, Honar Design Gallery, Tehran
2021 This Is Tehran, Javid Gallery, Tehran
2021 Veterans of Art, Negar Gallery, Tehran
2021 Remembrance, Soo Contemporary Complex, Tehran
2021 Winter Collection of Veterans 1400, Shirin Gallery, Tehran
2021 Mirror in Mirror, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
2022 Resize, Artibition Gallery, Tehran
2022 Modernism Collector, July 2022, Artibition Gallery, Tehran
2022 Discourse–Search, Oks Homa, Tehran
2022 The Sixth Extinction, Javid Gallery, Tehran
2022 Lotfi: Crossroads of Legends II, Govyeh Gallery, Tehran
2022 Modern Collector, Artibition Gallery, Tehran
2022 Recovery, Niyan Gallery, Tehran
2023 Modern Collector, Artibition Gallery, Tehran
2023 Selected Contemporary Artists, Art Center, Tehran
2023 Veteran Artists Exhibition, Negar Gallery, Tehran
2024 Riot of Colors, Kama Gallery, Tehran
2024 Still Life, Karshio Gallery, Tehran
2024 Group Painting Exhibition, Javid Gallery, Tehran
2025 In White, Javid Gallery, Tehran
