Javad Hamidi (1918 – 2002)[1] was an Iranian Modernist painter, poet, and educator.

[2] Javad Hamidi was born in 1918 in Hamadan, Qajar Iran.

[3][4] His classmate was Shokouh Riazi, who studied alongside him in both Tehran and in Paris.

[3] He continued his studies under French painter André Lhote.

[3] Hamidi had been a founding member of the "Fighting Cock Society" (Khorūs-e Jangi), an artists group in Iran dedicated to the modern art movement and surrealism.