Shahrzad Royaee
July 10, 2024
The "Forty, Thirty" exhibition will be opened on Friday, July 22 at the Artibishion Gallery, displaying the works of thirty artists who were forty years old at the time of preparing the book interviews of this name.
Pouya Arianpour is an Iranian contemporary painter and sculptor, born in 1971 in Tehran. He began his artistic education at the Tehran High School of Fine Arts and continued his studies between 1993 and 1999, earning both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Painting from the University of Art and Architecture, Tehran. Since 2001, he has been teaching art at the same university while simultaneously pursuing his professional artistic career. His first solo exhibition was held in 1994 at Barg Gallery in Tehran, and over the following years, his works have been exhibited in prominent galleries both in Iran and abroad, including Golestan Gallery, Serendipity Gallery in Sweden, Sophia Gallery in London, and VHC Gallery in Pune. Arianpour has also actively participated in international biennials and has received awards such as the Fifth Tehran Painting Biennial and the Second Contemporary Islamic Painting Biennial. His works have been featured in major group exhibitions in cities including New York, Los Angeles, Dubai, Shanghai, and Beijing, and he has participated in art fair events such as Art Dubai, Art Fair India, and Frieze New York. Pouya Arianpour’s artistic style blends tradition with contemporary practices, incorporating conceptual explorations and research into Iranian aesthetics.
Solo Exhibitions
2023: Miwe Elysean - Roudkhaneh Khoroushan, VHC Gallery, Pune
2022: Barbadr Rafteh, Abandoned Qand Factory, Tehran
2016: Zibayi Bozorg, Khavaran Factory, Tehran
2016: Zir Poosteh, Sophia Gallery, London
2014: Temporary Wishes in Temporary Imagination, Boom Gallery, Tehran
2004: Serendipity Gallery, Sweden
2002: Golestan Gallery, Tehran
2000: Barg Gallery, Tehran
1998: Barg Gallery, Tehran
1994: Barg Gallery, Tehran
Group Exhibitions
2025: Soft Edge of the Blade, Third Edition, Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai
2025: Infinite Geometry, Galery Mellal, Tehran
2024: Imaginary View, Plus 2, Tehran
2024: Forty, Thirty, Artibition Gallery, Tehran
2023: Defiant Human, Negah Gallery, Tehran
2021: Along Iraj, Iraj Zand Foundation, Tehran
2021: Dialogue of Persian Art and Contemporary Iranian Art, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai
2021: Nowruz and New Year Celebration, Outdoor Gallery Spaces, Tehran
2021: Farakh, Rishé 29 Gallery, Tehran
2017: Picnic in Iranian Style, Golestan Palace Museum, Tehran
2017: Dallas Art Fair, Dallas
2017: Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul
2017: Art Stage, Singapore
2016: Shabtab 2, Tarahan-e Azad Gallery, Tehran
2016: Geometry, Outside Dastan Gallery (V-Cafe), Tehran
2016: Magic of Persia, In Memory of Tomorrow, Tehran / Dubai
2014: Magic of Persia, Inspiration / Perseverance: Desire / Persistence, Los Angeles
2013: Infinite, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
2013: Transparency, A.B. Gallery, Lucerne
2012: Rang Mehr, Asar Gallery, Tehran
2004: Iranian Garden, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
2004: Contemporary Iranian Art, Beijing
2003: Abyim Group, Niavaran Cultural Center, Tehran
2003: Exhibition of Spiritual Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
2003: Abyim Group, Mimara Museum, Zagreb
2002: Breeze from the Persian Garden, New Art from Iran, Meridian International Center, USA
2002: International Expo, New York
2002: Second Conceptual Art Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
2002: Outside the Fog, Don Omelvoni Gallery, Los Angeles
2000: International Expo, New York
2000: Silence of the Brush, Ronald Reagan Building, Washington
1999: Mexican Cultural Center, Tehran
1993: International Children’s Illustration Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
Biennials and Art Fairs
2023: Art Fair, Art Dubai, Dubai
2023: Art Fair India, New Delhi
2003: Sixth Tehran Painting Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
2002: Second World Islamic Painting Biennial, Saba Cultural Center, Tehran
2000: International Design Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
2000: Fifth Tehran Painting Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
1999: Asian Art Biennial, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Awards
2002: Prize Winner, Second Contemporary Islamic Painting Biennial, Tehran
2000: Fifth Tehran Painting Biennial Winner, Tehran
The "Forty, Thirty" exhibition will be opened on Friday, July 22 at the Artibishion Gallery, displaying the works of thirty artists who were forty years old at the time of preparing the book interviews of this name.
