Amir Soghrati

Painter, curator, researcher and art critic.

Born in 1979. Rasht (IRAN)

Graduated in press graphics, from the Center for Media Studies and Research, Tehran, 2002.

Publication of the first work of art in 1994, Abrar newspaper.

Publishing artwork and working with over 60 different publications as a critic, writer, cartoonist and illustrator since 1994.

23 personal exhibitions and 191 group exhibitions since 1995.

Member of the Association of Iranian Journalists (AOIJ) since 2004.

Member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) since 2005.

Associate of the Association of Iranian Painters since 2013.

Honorary member of the Association of Iranian Painters since 2018.

Member of the board of directors of the Association of Iranian Painters from 2015 to 2018.

Implementation of 7 mural projects in Tehran, Shahre Rey and Kish Island since 2016.

Curator of 8 exhibitions of contemporary Iranian art in Tehran and Prais since 2012.

Secretary of the research conference of the 7th Tehran International Sculpture Symposium, 2015.

Member of the artistic group “Encyclopedia of Contemporary Iranian Culture" of the National Library and Documentation Center of Iran and author of the entry “Caricature of Iran", 2016.

Member of the visual council of the Iranian Artists House, from 2016 to 2018.

Deputy editor and editor-in-chief of the biweekly visual arts magazine “ Tandis ", 2014 and 2016.

Member of the jury of the first drawing festival, Alborz, 2016.

Member of the jury of the Tehran call for murals intended for students of art universities in Iran (Rouyesh), 2016.

Member of the Council for Policy and Planning responsible for presenting the artists of the Iranian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.

Member of Mural Painting Arts Council of Tehran Beautification Organization, 2020.

Author and director of 16 episodes of the series “Imagination of a Century; One hundred years of visual arts from Iran", 2020.

Writing of 15 volumes on art in IRAN since 2008.

Writing introductions and articles in more than 20 books in Iran since the 2000s.

Drafting statements for over 60 visual arts exhibitions in Iran since the 2000s.

Publication of an article in the special issue of the French newspaper Le Monde entitled "Iran 2017, a new face" on the new Iran after the 2012 elections and after the 2017 JJAP.

Collective exhibition “Cultural stories, an artistic map of the Middle East" Alsercal Avenue", Dubai, 2018.

Group exhibition “Creative dialogue; An artistic map of the Middle East » Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait, 2018.

Collective exhibition "Orient", And More Gallery Göteborg, Sweden, 2018.

Publication of a work in the book "Creative Dialogue; An Art Map of the Middle East", Selection Arts Publishing, Kuwait, 2018.

The introduction to the book “The Exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Art from Iran called Ehsasat"; (Opening of the Kama Gallery in London), April 2018.

“Micro Macro", collective exhibition of seventy Iranian artists, Fornaresio Gallery, Turin, Italy, 2021.

Exhibitions:

23 personal exhibitions of paintings, drawings and caricatures since 1995.

Some personal exhibitions:

“Unmarked Memories", Painting Exhibition, Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 2011.

"Living; Creation and Destruction", Painting Exhibition, Golestan Gallery, Tehran, 2013.

“Khatranj", Painting Exhibition, Dena Gallery, Tehran, 2015.

“The frequency of silence", Painting exhibition, Dastan Basement Gallery, 2017.

"The Frequency of Silence", painting exhibition, project outside Dastan Basement Gallery at Sam Cafe, Tehran, 2017.

“Tasian or Anonymous concern", exhibition Installation Painting, Homa Gallery, Tehran, 2019.

“Pseudo-memories", Painting Exhibition, Sales Gallery, Tehran, 2022.