Barbad Golshiri

Who is Barbad Golshiri?

Barbad Golshiri is an Iranian contemporary artist, born in 1982 in Tehran, Iran. His father was Houshang Golshiri, a famous Iranian writer. He studied painting at The School of Art and Architecture, Azad University, Tehran. He has worked both as a media artist and a critic. He works with video, digital media, installation, photography, the internet, graphic novels and Lettrism.

He won the third prize of the 6th Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. In the criticism symposium of the biennial, Golshiri's paper was praised as one of the three best articles.

Most of his works are language-based and like other young Iranian artists he has severed his ties with the Iranian modern art movement. The exhibition "Iran.com: Iranian Art Today" in Freiburg's Museum für Neue Kunst and the TREIBSAND DVD Magazine [Volume 01] focus on this generation.

Golshiri has portrayed himself as a critic of the current socio-political situation of Iran. In the Civil War series and in A Memorial for Potassium Suppository, shown in the first biennial of Thessaloniki, the artist attacked Chain murders of Iran. His father was one of the survivors of these murders.