Nasser Palangi

Nasser graduated in visual arts from Tehran University in 1984.

He pursued his studies in painting and art education in Tehran until 1989 and lectured at a number of universities until 1998.

At the beginning of the first Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), he spent Two years working as a war artist creating drawings, paintings and photographs. He created a series of mural paintings entitled, My Memory of the War for the congregational mosque of Khorramshahr, Iran, 1982.

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. His works have been exhibited widely, from the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (2000) and the Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran (2001), to the East & West Gallery, Victoria, Australia (2005).

Palangi was the art courater of the Khoramhsar War Memorial and director of Soureh Institute of Art, 1994-1997.

His Works have been collected by the serval museum in Iran and British Museum as an Modern Middle East Artist and published in book called Words into the Arts, UK, 2006.

Nasser has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in several countries around the world in Asia, Europe, Canada, Arab Countries, U.S.A. and Australia.

Palangi lives in Iran and Australia.

His resent project is Mural painting supported by Iziko Museum about Bo- Kape History, in Cape Town -Sought Africa, 2006 and become a heritage spot of the city.

His resent exhibition:

2007 History recalls the memory of the War, Photograph and drawing, Northeast University, Boston, USA.

2007 Iranian Nomads in18th century, photo collage & painting, Mina Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2006 Revelation, Photo media painting, Singapore History Museum, Singapore.

2005 Women during the Iran-Iraq war from1980-1988, Foyer gallery, School of Art, ANU, Canberra, Australia.