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Artist: Pejman Rahimizade

 

came into the world in 1970 in Pars Hospital in the city of Tehran, Iran. I have a sister who was born three years ahead of me and a brother who came along eight years after me. I spent my formative years in the city of Lahijan at the foot of a mountain called Satan’s Peak. Many years have passed since then and the city has grown up considerably. After all these years I never did figure out how this mountain –whose green slopes could be traversed in all of half a day after which you might suddenly come face to face with a porcupine –got its name. All that has remained of that little mountain is its name, the scent of the rain and the porcupines which have long since disappeared.

My mother shaped my childhood and my father, my teenage years. Father was a doctor and hoped I would follow in his footsteps. As a small kid, I wasn’t into school. I preferred to spend my time painting and instead of textbooks, I was crazy about picture books that my sister used to bring home as prizes from school. There was The Little Boy with Blue Eyes and The Moonlight Oozes illustrated by Farshid Mesghali1 , Snowman, illustrated by Allen Bayash, Gord Afarid illustrated by Ali Akbar Sadeghi and Bastur illustrated by Nikzad Nojumi, all big names in Iranian children’s illustration.

 

1970 – MA in Graphic Design, Azad Art University, Tehran

Illustrator, Painter and Graphic Designer

• Jury Member, Children and Youth Painting and Caricature Festival, Iran, 2006
• Jury Member, Art and Security Festival, Iran, 2007
• Selection Board Member, Illustrators Book of the Year, Iran, 2009
• Jury Member and Secretary, Illustration Section, Azadegan Visual Arts Festival, Iran, 2010
• Jury Member, Illustration Section, 4^th  Fajr Visual Arts Festival, Iran, 2011
• Selection Board Member, Tehran Municipality Nowrooz Festival, 2012
• Jury Member, Illustration Section, International Besmellah Festival, Iran, 2013