| B I O G R A P H Y |

| B I O G R A P H Y |

Mirmohamad Fatahi was born in 1987 in Karaj and recieves his painting diploma from “School of Fine Arts” in 2005. After his first visit of school, Mirmohamad was impressed by the atmosphere and the existing mentality of
the school and gradually got self-aware of his talent in painting. Graduating from high school, Mirmohamad
develops his activities and starts his teaching career for labor children, in a NGO under UNICEF supervision. In
addition, he persues his painting career by illustrating for oldest children’s magazines called “Keyhan Bacheha” in
Iran. In 2007, while entering Soore Art University of Tehran to study for BA in painting, he develops his career and starts his cooperation with several magazines and publishers as “Shahed-e Koodak” magazine, “Charkh-o Falak”
periodical and moreover, creates books for “Parseh” publication, ”, “Iran Language Institute :Institute for the
Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA)”. Meanwhile, he works as an intern and assistance of Majid FathiZadeh in his studio. In university, he is offered a working position as a background artist and begins his work in “Naghsh-e Jahan” company in different positions as background artist, color artist and concept artist in various projects, cooperating with several companies and recieving some prizes along with them. In 2014, Mirmohamad Fatahi holds his first solo painting exhibition “Parking” in “Iranian House of Cartoon”. This
exhibition is his second experience after the group exhibition “History Game” held in Etemad Gallery, the year
before. In 2014, Fatahi could enter among finalist artists in “Golden Turtle contest / Portrait of Animal Furthermore, he is invited to this exhibition announcement in Moscow Museum. Moreover, he manages to receive the second prize in Drawing Contest of “Association of Alborz Painters” and participates in two following exhibitions with them. In 2016 he gets an invitation to “Agog” Group Exhibition” hosted by Dastan’s Basement Gallery, chosen as the selected artist among 27 more young artists, and therefore starts working seriously with Dastan Gallery. Following his second solo exhibition named “An-denken(Remembrance)” in 2018, he opens his Third Solo exhibition as ” Wordless” in the same gallery in 2020. His presence in group exhibitions is more seriously felt after 2019 that leads to an exhibition in the “Sanati Contemporary Arts Museum” in Kerman, group exhibition in “kunst kiosk Gallery” in Switzerland and “Arksal Avenue” in Dubi, and also taking part in many group exhibitions in other cities of Iran. Being more adamant in his work, Mirnohamad Fatahi gets concerned about creating his personal paintings to reach the deep and rich concepts of paintings. Fatahi’s paintings themes are centered arouned Paintings of Iran and articulating Death Scheme. His solo exhibitions relates to death and its existing slabs of it. To reach this aim, Fatahi has been employing a vast spectrum of materials to sync his ultimate ideas and forms in his work. In his path, he has created numerous works using a variety of materials as oil color, water color, oil pastel, etc.

| R E S U M E |

  • Nov/1987 | Karaj, IRAN
     Education
  • 2013 | BA in Painting at Soore University. Tehran, IRAN
  • 2004 | Diploma at Fine Arts School. Karaj, IRAN
    – Solo Exhibition
  • 2020 | “Wordless”, Dastan Basement. Tehran, IRAN
  • 2018 | “An-Denken (rememberance)”, Dastan Basement. Tehran, IRAN
  • 2014 | “Parking”, Iranian House of Cartoon. Tehran, IRAN
    – Group Exhibitions
  • 2021 | “Space: Chapter One” , Oliva Gallery. Chicago, USA
  • 2021 | “Charity Sale of Visual Artworks for the Benefit of Iran MS Society. Tehran, IRAN
  • 2019 | “A Close View of Far Field Representations”, Sanati Contemporary Arts Museum. Kerman, IRAN
  • 2019 | “Encircle the Apple, or Shadowlessness”, Dastan Outside: V Gallery. Tehran, IRAN
  • 2019 | “Encircle the Apple, or Shadowlessness”, Dastan Outside: Emrooz Gallery. Isfahan, IRAN
  • 2019 | “Transition”, Vartan Gallery. Tehran, IRAN
  • 2018 | “Vadian im IRAN”, kunst kiosk Gallery. St.Gallen, SWITZERLAND
  • 2018 | “Cultural Narrative”, Alserkal Avenue Gallery. Dubai, UAE
  • 2016 | “Agog”, Dastan Outside, V Gallery. Tehran, IRAN
  • 2016 | “Association of Alborz Painters”, Iranian Artists Forum. Tehran, IRAN
  • 2015 | “Association of Alborz Painters”. Alborz, IRAN
  • 2015 | “Golden Turtle”: Portrait of Animal. Moscow, RUSSIA
  • 2013 | “History Game ”, Etemad Gallery. Tehran, IRAN
    – Awards
  • 2016 | Second Prize in “Association of Alborz Painters”, Drawing Contest. Alborz, IRAN
  • 2015 | Finalist of “Golden Turtle” Contest, Portrait of Animal. Moscow, RUSSIA