Charles Hossein Zenderoudi

Born Tehran, Iran, 1937

Before leaving Iran for France in 1960, Zenderoudi was a founding member of the Saqqakhaneh movement in 1958, integrating Iran's heritage with contemporary art. He received prizes at the Paris,Venice and São Paulo biennials. His works entered private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Beaubourg Centre and Modern Art Museum, Paris, Statens Museum, Copenhagen,Voor Volkenkunde Museum, Rotterdam, and Riyadh and Jeddah airports, Saudi Arabia. In the 1970s he was nominated in Connaissance des Arts as one of ten famous living artists, alongside Frank Stella and Andy Warhol. He also won the UNESCO award ‘The Most Beautiful Book of the Year’ for his cover design and lithographs for the Holy Qur'an. Some other well-known Zenderoudi illustrations are Hafez Dance of Life, 1988, and La vie n'est pas courte mais le temps est compté, poetry by Malek Jân Ne'mati, published by Diane de Selliers, 2007. In 2002 Zenderoudi had a retrospective exhibition at the Tehran Contemporary Art Museum. More recently his paintings and photographs were shown in Europe, the USA and the Middle East, including the FNAC Gallery, Paris, and the Grey Gallery, New York University. Zenderoudi lives in Paris and New York.