Iran Darroudi
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Education
Darroudi studied at Ecole Superier des Beaux-ArtsÉcole des Beaux-Arts
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in Paris
Paris
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, history of art at the École du Louvre
École du Louvre
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in Paris, stained glass at the Royal Academy of Brussels
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, and television direction and production at the R.C.A. Institute in New York
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Career
Darroudi's first solo exhibition was held in Miami in 1958 at the invitation of the Florida State Art Center. She also took an English languageEnglish language
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course at Columbia University
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Her first exhibition in Iran was held in April 1960 at the Farhang Hall. She wrote articles on the history of art and art criticism for Kayhan
Kayhan
Kayhan is an influential newspaper in Iran. Directly under the supervision of the Office of the Supreme Leader, it is regarded to be "the most conservative Iranian newspaper."...
newspaper. In the winter of 1966 in New York
New York
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, she met and married Parviz Moghaddasi, who was studying television direction. The couple worked at the newly established Iranian television organization as producer and director for six years.
In 1968 she made 55 minute long documentary about the 1968 Venice Biennial. She was appointed as an honorary professor at the Industrial University of Tehran, teaching art history. In 1969 the ITT Corporation
ITT Corporation
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commissioned her to paint Iranian Oil. She held successful exhibitions in Paris and at the Atrium Artist Gallery, Geneva
Geneva
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, and a month later at Galarie 21, Zurich
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In 1974 a film on Darroudi's life was broadcast on American television. She met Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....
and Tago Seizi. In 1976 she exhibited at the Mexican Museum of Art, where Antonio Rodriquez praised her as one of the world's four greatest painters. In 1978 she moved to France.
Her husband died in 1985 and her first work after his death was Assumption of Parviz. Her autobiography, In the Distance Between Two Points, was published in 1997.
Selected solo exhibitions
- 1999 - L.A. University, Los Angeles.
- 1999 - Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.
- 1994 - United NationsUnited NationsThe United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
, New York. - 2008 - Tehran Museum of Contemporary ArtTehran Museum of Contemporary ArtTehran's Museum of Contemporary Art is an art museum in Tehran, Iran.Inaugurated in 1977, and built adjacent to Tehran's Laleh Park, the museum was designed by Iranian architect Kamran Diba, who employed elements from traditional Persian architecture. The building can be listed as a contemporary...