Nasser Palangi
Born Hamedan, Iran
Palangi graduated in visual arts from the
Tehran University in 1984. He pursued his
education in painting and art education in
Tehran until 1989 while lecturing at different
universities until 1998. At the beginning of the
first Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988),he spent three
years working as a war artist creating drawings,
paintings and photographs.In addition, he created
a series of mural paintings entitled My Memory of
the War for the congregational mosque of Khorramshahr,
Iran, 1981. He has had many commissions throughout
his career, including installations and two mural reliefs
for the War Memorial Museum in Khorramshahr, 1997-8;
a mural painting for the Treasure Gallery, Seattle, USA,
2000; a painting for the Medicines without Border Project,
Dubai, UAE, and ten sculptures, Migrants in Australia, for
the National Multicultural Festival, Canberra, Australia,
2004. He has exhibited widely including at the Tehran Museum
of Contemporary Art, 2000, and the Seyhoun Gallery,
Tehran, 2001.Palangi lives in Australia where an exhibition
of a selection of his works dating from 1999 to 2005 took
place at the East & West gallery, Victoria,Australia, 2005.
Not featured in Dubai 2008
Untitled
Collage, 1999
H 50.0 cm, W 70.0 cm
Iran/Australia