Manouchehr Motabar

Manouchehr Motabar

MANOUCHEHR MOTABAR Manouchehr Motabar was born in Shiraz, Iran, in 1936. After graduating from the Tehran College of Fine Arts, he left Iran to take a graduate course in art education in Indiana, USA and participated in drawing courses at the Art Students League of New York. Since his return to Iran, he has been teaching painting and drawing in schools and colleges of visual arts in Tehran. Since 1963, his work has been exhibited in national and international solo and group exhibitions and in 1985 he won the International Exhibition of Contemporary Painters Award in Monaco. Motabar was paid homage by the Imam Ali Museum in Tehran in 2006.

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2014 Ariana Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2010 Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2006 Imam Ali Museum, Tehran, Iran

2004 Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2002 Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2000 Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran

1999 Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran

1998 Private Studio, Tehran, Iran

1995 Private Studio, Tehran, Iran

1995 Private Studio, Tehran, Iran

1995 Sabz Gallery, Tehran, Iran

1993 Arya Gallery, Tehran, Iran

1990 Classic Gallery, Tehran, Iran

1989 Pafar Gallery, Tehran, Iran

1977 Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran, Iran

1976 Faculty of Economics, The Advanced School of Commerce, Tehran, Iran

1975 Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran, Iran

1968 Iran-America Society, Tehran, Iran

1967 Iran-America Society, Tehran, Iran

1963 Tehran Youth Club, Tehran, Iran

1963 Faculty of Fine Art, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

1962 Faculty of Fine Art, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran


Selected Group Exhibitions

2012 Iranian Artist Forum, Tehran, Iran

2009 Iranian Artist Forum, Tehran, Iran

2008 Imam Ali Museum, Tehran, Iran

2005 Saba Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2005 Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran

2005 Niavaran Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran

2005 Homa Gallery, Contemporary Drawing, Tehran, Iran

2004 Saba Gallery, “Islamic World,” Tehran, Iran

2000 Museum of Contemporary Art, “Spiritual Art,” Tehran, Iran

1998 Museum of Contemporary Art,” Iranian Contemporary Painters,” Texas, USA

1998 Museum of Contemporary Art,” Iranian Contemporary Painters,” New York & Chicago, USA

1998 Museum of Contemporary Art,” Iranian Contemporary Painters,” Kiev, Ukraine

1998 Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Painting Biennale, Tehran, Iran

1998 Barg Gallery, Tehran, Iran

1997 Barg Gallery, Tehran, Iran

1997 Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Drawing Biennale, Tehran, Iran

1987 Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran

1986 Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran

1985 Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran

1985 Exhibition of International Painters, Monte Carlo, Monaco

1984 Exhibition of International Painters, Monte Carlo, Monaco

1978 Indiana University, USA

1965 Iran American Society, Tehran, Iran