Iranian Academy of Arts (IAA) (Persian: فرهنگستان هنر ایران; formally Academy of Arts of the Islamic Republic of Iran) was established in March 2000.
[1] Mir Hossein Mousavi served as the President for 11 years until he was removed in 2009.
[2] Ali Mo'alem Damghani was selected as second president of Academy in December 2009 by the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution.
In June 2023 Majid Shah-Hosseini was elected as the new President of Iranian Academy of Arts.
According to article 16 of the Academy's charter, the Iranian Academy of Arts will have thirty regular members, twenty of whom will be elected by the Art Council's nomination and the Cultural Revolution Supreme Council's approval, and the remaining ten will be elected by the latter twenty.