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 three 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, 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. 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 lives in Australia.
Palangi was the art courater of the Khoramhsar War Mémorial, 1994-1998
His Works have been collecte by thé serval muséum in Iran.
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.
His resent project is Mural painting supported by Iziko Museum about Bo- Kape
history , in Cape Town -Sought Africa;
his resent exhibition:
2007: History recalls, the memory of the War ,East university of Boston, USA
2007: Qajar period, photo media collage, Mina Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2006: Revelation, Photo media painting, Singapore History Museum.
