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Advocartsy ADVOCARTSY is an Iranian Contemporary fine art platform based in Los Angeles.

05/02/2026

Newly released mirror art by Tahmineh Javanbakht is now on view by appointment at our new Downtown Los Angeles gallery.
Tahmineh Javanbakht
S shape, 2026
Color mirrors, powder coated steel, wood, and paint
75 x 65 x 1.5 in
To plan a viewing email us at [email protected] or visit us at ADVOCARTSY.com.

We’re delighted to share a glimpse of our exhibition currently on view at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing...
04/15/2026

We’re delighted to share a glimpse of our exhibition currently on view at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, presented alongside ENGLISH, written by Sanaz Toossi and directed by Knud Adams.

These installation views offer a closer look at the exhibition, which is curated in dialogue with the play—centering on Iranian women navigating language and self-expression—and extends this inquiry through visual form.

Bringing together a diverse group of Iranian artists across generations and mediums, the exhibition focuses on women as its central subject. Across these works, women are not presented as a singular narrative, but as complex, evolving presences shaped by culture, memory, and lived experience.

The presentation reflects ADVOCARTSY’s mission to advance awareness of artists of Iranian origin and to help bridge cultural gaps by bringing their work to wider audiences.

On view through April 26 — we warmly invite you to experience it in person.

For inquiries, please email us at [email protected] or visit us at ADVOCARTSY.com

ADVOCARTSY is pleased to announce a collaboration with Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, presenting a sel...
04/01/2026

ADVOCARTSY is pleased to announce a collaboration with Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, presenting a selection of works by contemporary Iranian artists from our list of collaborating artists. These works will be presented alongside The Wallis’s presentation of ENGLISH, written by Sanaz Toossi and directed by Knud Adams.

On view from April 4 through April 26, 2026, the presentation includes works by Mohammad Barrangi, Nahid Hagigat, Tahmineh Javanbakht, Rashin Kheiriyeh, Dana Nehdaran, Nicky Nodjoumi, Bahar Sabzevari, Sepideh Salehi, and Shadi Yousefian.

Curated in dialogue with the play, which centers on Iranian women navigating language and self-expression, the exhibition extends this inquiry through visual form.
Through varied perspectives—both male and female—the artists explore how women are seen, represented, and understood.
Presented within a performing arts setting, the exhibition creates a dialogue between visual art and theater.

We invite you to experience the exhibition during its run.

▪️ Nicky Nodjoumi. Environment Series - Physialis Alkeken, 2019. Oil on canvas, 70 x 50 in
▪️ Nahid Hagigat. Church Front, 2009. Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50 in
▪️ Tahmineh Javanbakht. I want that blue sky, 2026. Color mirrors, 24 k gold leaf, powder coated steel, wood, and paint, 28.25 x 32.5 x 1.5 in
▪️ Mohammad Barrangi. Grant me such a dance right at the center of the floor I & II, 2025. Reverse transfer printmaking on raw canvas, 60.8 x 76.4 in

For inquiries, please email us at [email protected] or visit us at ADVOCARTSY.com

✨ We are excited to keep sharing a curated selection of works by some of the most celebrated voices in Iranian contempor...
12/21/2025

✨ We are excited to keep sharing a curated selection of works by some of the most celebrated voices in Iranian contemporary art. Each piece has been thoughtfully chosen for its unique resonance, artistic merit, and gift-worthy appeal — whether you’re looking to surprise a seasoned collector or introduce someone special to the richness of Iranian creative expression.

Holiday delivery available to ensure your gifts arrive beautifully and on time 🎁

Over several decades, Oakland-based multimedia artist Ali Dadgar has explored universal themes of censorship, colonization, ‘otherness’, and identity filtered through his own Iranian and American experiences. Working across multiple mediums and series simultaneously, Dadgar’s ideas take shape through performance and 2-dimensional mixed media art. He is deeply familiar with the conventions of printmaking and formal Western approaches to art, which he absorbs and upturns through his practice. By layering historical symbols, handwritten notes, photographs, self-portraits, and found materials from rugs to maps, Dadgar’s art maintains an undercurrent of dark humor that strives to recontextualize the unexpected. These elements are manipulated either digitally or manually, through painting or drawing, and form a new visual language – one of redaction, remapping, and erasure. Through autobiography and self-deprecation, Dadgar summons figures of otherness in a place filled with tradition, history, humor, and paradox.

▪️ Ali Dadgar. The Crown Series, 2024. Serigraph over watercolor on artisan paper, 30 x 22.50 in
▪️ Ali Dadgar. The Crown Series, 2024. Serigraph over watercolor on artisan paper, 30 x 22.50 in
▪️ Ali Dadgar. Vaay, 2022. Painting & screen print on canvas, 36 x 24 in
▪️ Ali Dadgar. Aakh, 2022. Painting & screen print on canvas, 36 x 24 in

For inquiries, please email us at [email protected] or visit us at ADVOCARTSY.com

✨ We are excited to keep sharing a curated selection of works by some of the most celebrated voices in Iranian contempor...
12/19/2025

✨ We are excited to keep sharing a curated selection of works by some of the most celebrated voices in Iranian contemporary art. Each piece has been thoughtfully chosen for its unique resonance, artistic merit, and gift-worthy appeal — whether you’re looking to surprise a seasoned collector or introduce someone special to the richness of Iranian creative expression.

Holiday delivery available to ensure your gifts arrive beautifully and on time 🎁

Kourosh Beigpour is an LA-based award-winning graphic artist and type designer. He received his BFA in 2003 from the Tehran University of Art, which is one of Asia’s oldest and most prestigious art schools, and received an MFA in International Contemporary Art and Design from Limkokwing University in 2011.

Beigpour’s use of typography and graphic design has been published in more than twenty countries around the globe. His impressive portfolio showcases his remarkable creative energy and signature designs with a special focus and interest in Persian and Arabic typography and identity design portraying his love and appreciation for millennia-old Iranian art and culture.

▪️Kourosh Beigpour. Mandal 2 (1/7 + 3AP), 2022. Silkscreen on 90 gsm Stonehenge paper, 3 Colors, 28.50 x 22 in

▪️Kourosh Beigpour. Lion and Sun (4/7 + 3 AP), 2022. Screenprint on a 250 gsm cotton rag paper. 2 colors, 22 x 30 in

For inquiries, please email us at [email protected] or visit us at ADVOCARTSY.com

✨ We are excited to keep sharing a curated selection of works by some of the most celebrated voices in Iranian contempor...
12/19/2025

✨ We are excited to keep sharing a curated selection of works by some of the most celebrated voices in Iranian contemporary art. Each piece has been thoughtfully chosen for its unique resonance, artistic merit, and gift-worthy appeal — whether you’re looking to surprise a seasoned collector or introduce someone special to the richness of Iranian creative expression.

Holiday delivery available to ensure your gifts arrive beautifully and on time 🎁

Living and working in German exile since the 1990s, themes like the violation of Human Rights and the oppression of women are of major concern for the artist and activist Parastou Forouhar, who employs a powerful feminist language in her art. Her work blurs the boundaries between form and concept, biography and artistry.

With artistic techniques such as installation, graphic print, or performative photography, Fourouhar engages with the positionality of the female body, and how diversity and ambivalence shapes the meaning and ownership of the space in relation to gender, ethnicity, and migration.

Her work has been widely exhibited around the world and is included in prestigious permanent collections, including The Queensland Art Museum, the British Museum, Belvedere in Vienna, the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt, the Deutsche Bank Art Collection, and the Walker Art Center.

▪️Parastou Forouhar. Bamboofield (2/5 + 2AP), 2019-2023. Digital print on photo rag, 48.50 x 48.50 in
▪️Parastou Forouhar. Women of the Revolution Street (2/5 + 2AP), 2019-2023. Digital print on photo rag, 48.50 x 48.50 in

For inquiries, please email us at [email protected] or visit us at ADVOCARTSY.com

✨ We are excited to keep sharing a curated selection of works by some of the most celebrated voices in Iranian contempor...
12/18/2025

✨ We are excited to keep sharing a curated selection of works by some of the most celebrated voices in Iranian contemporary art. Each piece has been thoughtfully chosen for its unique resonance, artistic merit, and gift-worthy appeal — whether you’re looking to surprise a seasoned collector or introduce someone special to the richness of Iranian creative expression.

Holiday delivery available to ensure your gifts arrive beautifully and on time 🎁

Mohammad Barrangi was born in Rasht, Iran, in 1988. Now based in the UK, he is both a globally recognized artist and a medal-winning athlete who has represented Iran internationally in the 100m sprint. Born without full mobility in his left arm, Barrangi has developed a unique artistic practice that utilizes his right hand and both feet to create his distinctive works. Blending traditional calligraphy with experimental mark-making techniques, Barrangi combines elements of Persian calligraphy, storytelling, text, and touches of humor to create intimate works on handmade paper that are selectively expanded into large-scale murals.

Barrangi has extensively exhibited his work around the world, winning numerous awards and recognition that have led to the prolific publication of his illustrations in a variety of books. His works have been acquired by the permanent collections of the British Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Royal Family Collection, the National Government Collection in the UK, the San Diego Museum of Art in the USA, the Cluj-Napoca Art Museum, Romania, and Leeds Art Gallery, UK.

▪️When the Moon was Full, 2023. Reverse transfer printmaking on handmade paper, 19.50 x 14 in
▪️Untitled, 2024. Reverse transfer printmaking on handmade paper, 19.50 x 14.50 in

For inquiries, please email us at [email protected] or visit us at ADVOCARTSY.com

✨ We are excited to keep sharing a curated selection of works by some of the most celebrated voices in Iranian contempor...
12/14/2025

✨ We are excited to keep sharing a curated selection of works by some of the most celebrated voices in Iranian contemporary art. Each piece has been thoughtfully chosen for its unique resonance, artistic merit, and gift-worthy appeal — whether you’re looking to surprise a seasoned collector or introduce someone special to the richness of Iranian creative expression.

Holiday delivery available to ensure your gifts arrive beautifully and on time 🎁

A self-taught artist, Afsoon spent her childhood in Iran and youth in California before settling in London in 1988. Her nomadic life is reflected in her work where East merges with West, and the result is simultaneously familiar and foreign.

Working across mediums including photography, linocut, collage and etching, Afsoon’s practice aims to preserve her cultural past and explore nostalgia through visual storytelling and iconography. Her art reveals the introspective and often difficult nature of being a woman artist in the Iranian diaspora, contending with historical allusions and the artist’s own carefully crafted, playful visual language.

Afsoon has exhibited internationally, and her works are held in the collections of LACMA, the British Museum, the Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent Collection, and the Farjam Collection amongst others.

▪️Afsoon. Googoosh III (4/8), 2010. Archival artist print of a mixed media collage on sommerset artist paper, 16.50 x 23.40 in
▪️Afsoon. Mossadegh (1AP/8+2AP), 2009. Archival Print on Somerset Artist Paper, 16.50 x 23.40 in
▪️Afsoon. Woman and Butterflies, 2023. Hand-printed linocut collaged on Zerkall artist paper, 16 x 12 in
▪️Afsoon. Woman in Spring, 2023. Hand-printed linocut collaged on Zerkall artist paper, 16 x 12 in

For inquiries, please email us at [email protected] or visit us at ADVOCARTSY.com

The season of giving is here! ✨We are excited to keep sharing a curated selection of works by some of the most celebrate...
12/13/2025

The season of giving is here! ✨

We are excited to keep sharing a curated selection of works by some of the most celebrated voices in Iranian contemporary art. Each piece has been thoughtfully chosen for its unique resonance, artistic merit, and gift-worthy appeal — whether you’re looking to surprise a seasoned collector or introduce someone special to the richness of Iranian creative expression.

Holiday delivery available to ensure your gifts arrive beautifully and on time 🎁

Brooklyn-based artist Nicky Nodjoumi was born in Kermanshah, Iran in 1942 and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art from Tehran University of Fine Arts. Nodjoumi relocated to the United States in the late 1960s, where he received his Master’s degree in Fine Arts from The City College of New York in 1974. Returning to Tehran to join the faculty of his alma mater, Nodjoumi continued the journey of political engagement that has been foundational to his work across decades. Nodjoumi’s works are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British Museum in London, Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi, the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, and the National Museum of Cuba. Nicky Nodjoumi’s solo exhibition, Nicky Nodjoumi: The Personal is Political is currently on exhibition at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center (YBCA) through March 23 2025. Nodjoumi lives and works in Brooklyn.

▪️Nicky Nodjoumi. New York Times Sketchbooks, 1996-1999. Mixed media on newspaper, 27 x 22 in

For inquiries, please email us at [email protected] or visit us at ADVOCARTSY.com

The season of giving is here ✨ Starting today, we’ll be here to share a curated selection of works by some of the most c...
12/12/2025

The season of giving is here ✨

Starting today, we’ll be here to share a curated selection of works by some of the most celebrated voices in Iranian contemporary art. Each piece has been thoughtfully chosen for its unique resonance, artistic merit, and gift-worthy appeal — whether you’re looking to surprise a seasoned collector or introduce someone special to the richness of Iranian creative expression.

Holiday delivery available to ensure your gifts arrive beautifully and on time 🎁

Born in Iran in 1928, Mokarrameh Ghanbari was a self-taught artist who began painting at the age of 61. She quickly produced a prolific body of work with a distinct visual language, even painting on the walls of her home when she ran out of paper. Mokarrameh became a defining artist of the Folk Art movement in Iran, and had her first exhibition at Seyhon Gallery, Tehran in 1995. Before her passing in 2005, the artist participated in ten other exhibitions and was awarded the jury prize at the Roshd Film Festival. In 2001, she was awarded “Woman of the Year” at the 12th International Conference of Iranian Women’s Studies Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. In addition, she was named the “Female Painter of 2001” by the Swedish National Museum.

▪️Mokarrameh Ghanbari . Untitled, 1990s. Mixed media on paper, 23.25 x 19.50 in

For inquiries, please email us at [email protected] or visit us at ADVOCARTSY.com

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