Mansoor Ghandriz (Persian: منصور قندریز; 2 March 1936 – 26 February 1966)[1] was an Iranian painter and printmaker.

[1] While still in high school, Ghandriz was drawn to the progressive realist paintings of Ilya Repin (1844–1930) and Russian-Armenian seascape artist Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900).

After college he turned to a paradigmatic exhortation of modernist language within local Iranian narrative, and developing his own semi-abstract style.

Incorporating the figurative techniques of old masters, he created his own corporeal abstraction, which also indicates a process of gradual formalization, progressing from free forms to order.

[6] Ghandriz played a pivotal role in the establishing the Iran Gallery (Persian: Talar-e Iran), founded in 1964 by Ghandriz, Rouin Pakbaz, Faramarz Pilaram, Sadegh Tabrizi, Mohammad-Reza Jodat, Ghobad Shiva, Massoud Arabshahi, Sirus Malek, Farshid Mesghali, Parviz Mahallati, Morteza Momayez, and Hadi Hezareiy.