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Kourosh Shishegaran is a contemporary painter, graphic designer, and printmaker, born in 1945 in Qazvin, Iran. He is best known for his linear abstract paintings and is recognized as an experimental artist who has explored various mediums throughout his professional career. Shishegaran received a diploma in painting from Tehran School of Fine Arts and studied interior architecture at the Faculty of Decorative Arts. In his first professional exhibition held in 1972 at Mas Gallery in Tehran, he demonstrated his architectural sensibility in the presentation of his works. Rather than selling them, he gifted all 42 exhibited works to ordinary people and public institutions. He believed that painting should be brought to the people, not that we wait for them to come to it. Shishegaran’s first international exhibition took place in Basel, Switzerland, in 1976. In this collection, he reinterpreted works by prominent Iranian and international artists using his own techniques and mode of expression. In his renowned abstract paintings, Shishegaran is more committed to painting itself than to political or social issues. His approach to tangled lines and graphic brushstrokes recalls the work of Roy Lichtenstein. These lines are less painterly and more of a graphic interpretation of the painterly element. In some of his works, the intricate and chaotic flow of lines evokes the silhouette of a human figure or lifeless body, moving from pure abstraction toward figurative suggestion.
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1947 – Received diploma in painting, Tehran School of Fine Arts, Tehran, Iran
Contemporary Iranian Painting Exhibition, Azin Gallery
1990 – Created a series of works titled “War Designs”
1990 – Solo exhibition, “War Designs,” Golestan Gallery, Tehran
1990 – Group exhibition of paintings, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
1990 – Group exhibition of paintings, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
1991 – Participated in the first Iranian Painting Biennale
1992 – Solo exhibition, “Wavy Lines,” Golestan Gallery, Tehran
1992 – Participated in Contemporary Iranian Painting Exhibition, Fajr International Festival, Tehran
1992 – Still Life (Teapot)
1993 – Participated in Contemporary Iranian Painting Exhibition, Fajr International Festival, Tehran
1993 – Group painting exhibition, Dubai
1993 – Painting exhibition, Barg Gallery, Tehran
1995 – Contemporary Iranian Design Exhibition, Barg Gallery, Tehran
1996 – Solo exhibition, Arya Gallery, Tehran
1996 – Group painting exhibition, Barg Gallery, Tehran
1997 – Solo exhibition, Golestan Gallery, Tehran
1998 – Contemporary Iranian Art Exhibition, Qeshm Island
1998 – Contemporary Iranian Art Exhibition, Turkmenistan
1999 – Participated in the 9th Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh
1999 – Group exhibition, Contemporary Iranian Art, London
2001 – Group exhibition, Meridien Exhibition Center, USA
2001 – Group exhibition, Barbican Center, London
2003 – Participated in the International Biennale, Beijing, China
2003 – Exhibition, Meridien Exhibition Center, USA
2006 – Created a series titled “Photographic Works”
2006 – Group painting exhibition, Khak Gallery, Tehran
2007 – Untitled
2007 – Solo painting exhibition, Khak Gallery, Tehran
2007 – “Form and Branch”
2008 – Presented a series titled “Self-Portraits”
2012 – Solo exhibition, Opera Gallery, London
2013 – Group exhibition, Opera Gallery, London
2013 – Group exhibition, “From Modern to Contemporary,” Khak Gallery, Dubai
2013 – Group exhibition, Annual Review, Khak Gallery, Tehran
2012 – Group exhibition, “Iranian Art,” Opera Gallery, London
2014 – Group exhibition, Annual Review, Khak Gallery, Tehran
2014 – Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art of the City, Paris
2015 – Art Fair, Art Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2015 – Exhibition, Shirin Gallery, Tehran
2015 – “Unedited History: Iran from 1960 to 2014,” National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome
2015 – “Tar Player”
2016 – Art Fair, Abu Dhabi Art, Shirin Gallery, UAE
2018 – Group exhibition, “Free Sale,” Tarahan-e Azad Gallery, Tehran
2018 – Group exhibition, Sixth International Festival of Art for Peace, Pardis-e Mellat, Tehran
2018 – Group exhibition, “Amordad,” Afrand Gallery, Tehran
2021 – Art Fair, Art Dubai, presented by Khak Gallery, Dubai
2021 – Art Fair, MEN Art Fair, presented by Shirin Gallery, Paris
2022 – Group Exhibition, “Office Actions,” Su Gallery, Tehran
2023 – Group Exhibition, “Snow and Stork,” curated by Behzad Hatam, O Gallery, Tehran
2024 – Group Exhibition, “Several Tens of 100-Million Works,” Art Center Gallery, Tehran
