Naser Houshmand Vaziri

Nāser Houshmand Vaziri (Persian: ناصر هوشمند وزیری, born 1946 in Hamadan, Iran; died June 28, 2019 in Tehran) was an Iranian sculptor.

After graduating from university, Vaziri began to work in his sculpting studio on Fātemi Street[2] in Tehran.

Around 2005 he closed this studio and moved to Lavāsān, in the Lavasanat District, in the northeast of Tehran,[3] where he works on his life-dream, turning his home and surroundings into a workshop and an in-and-outdoor art museum.

Although stone was his favorite material, he worked with such other substances as mud, wood, sand, glass, fibreglass, ceramic, metal and cement.

Nāser Houshmand Vaziri died of a heart attack on Friday, 2019/06/28, he was 73, the Association of Iranian Sculptors announced.