Barbad Golshiri

Barbad Golshiri (born 1982 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian contemporary artist.

[1] He works with video, digital media, installation, photography, the internet, graphic novels and Lettrism.

[2] His father was famed Iranian writer, Houshang Golshiri,[3] and his mother is Farzaneh Taheri,[4] a renowned literary translator.

He studied painting at The School of Art and Architecture, Azad University, Tehran.

[5] Amiel Grumberg, the curator of "Too Much Pollution to Demonstrate: Soft Guerrillas in Tehran's Contemporary Art Scene - 2004" exhibition writes: Barbad Golshiri's series of videos, installations, and photography expresses a remarkable balance between foreign art influences and Iranian resonances".