Reza Yarahmadi

Reza AmirYarahmadi, a prominent Iranian sculptor and painter, was born in 1959 in Borujerd. He began his formal art education in sculpture at the Tehran High School of Fine Arts from 1973 to 1977 and continued his studies in the same field at the College of Decorative Arts. In 2005, he received a degree equivalent to a bachelor's, approved by the Iranian Artists Evaluation Council. Yarahmadi began his professional career by exhibiting a collection of his sculptures at Tehran’s Siyahoun Gallery in 1989 and went on to participate in numerous national and international exhibitions, including the Tehran Contemporary Sculpture Biennials and the biennials of Beijing, Ankara, Monte Carlo, Delhi, and Osaka. He was awarded a prize at the Second Urban Sculpture Biennial in 2010. Over time, his artistic style evolved from realistic figurative sculpture to abstraction and conceptual expression. During the 1980s, Yarahmadi focused on creating bronze sculptures of humans, horses, and cows with simplified forms. He was also a founding member of the Iranian Sculptors’ Association and served as its vice president for a period. Reza Yarahmadi passed away in 2018 from a heart attack in his private studio in Lavasan.