Rokni haeri zadeh biography examples
Works and lives in Dubai, UAE · Education · BA in Fine Arts, University of Tehran · M.A. Student in painting, Faculty of Fine Arts.
Rokni Haerizadeh (born ) is an Iranian artist living and working in Dubai..
Rokni Haerizadeh
Rokni Haerizadeh (born 1978) is an Iranian artist living and working in Dubai. He participated in the Carnegie International in 2013.
He is part of a collective Ramin, Rokni, Hesam
Early life
Rokni Haerizadeh was born in Tehran shortly before the start of the Iran-Iraq War. In a 2014 interview with Artforum, Haerizadeh described how his early experiences and questions about art were directly impacted by the war: "The TV programs at that time mostly depicted Islamic propaganda of the war, martyrs, and religion, but sometimes during the weekends they showed movies by directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Akira Kurosawa, Sergei Eisenstein […] Seeing, for example, a beautiful landscape with a man silently walking around for ten minutes moved me, and I wondered: Is that a movie?
Is that art?"[1]
Career
Haerizadeh gained international attention during the mid-2000s for his paintings that brought together, on canvas, his observations about social or pu