Paintings

2024

Dirty Acrylics

Dirty Acrylics collection delves into the unique properties of acrylic paint while offering a deeply personal reflection on relationships, sexuality, and gender. Through this body of paintings, Iman explores unsettling and intimate subjects using a technique he developed by experimenting with acrylic paint to create dirty, unexpected and interesting textures and shapes.

Shield

Oil on canvas

92 x 122 cm

2024

Hands

Oil on canvas

50 x 40 cm

2024


The Corner

Oil on canvas

101 x 76 cm

2024


The Next Night

Oil Canvas

92 x 122 cm

2024


2023

Lonely

Oil on canvas

122 x 92 cm

2023


Sunset

Oil on canvas

122 x 92 cm

2023

Witch Man

Oil on canvas

122 x 92 cm

2023


Life

A collection of paintings was created during the June and July 2023 Berlin Art Institute studio program. The program provided artists with a studio and regular critique and feedback from local and visiting fellow artists and critics. In this collection, I tried to explore different methods and ideas more freely, focusing on the concepts of life, freedom, and women from my own personal point of view and emotions. These concepts were inspired by Iran's 2023 uprising, and the collection is dedicated to the brave and oppressed Iranians. Although my art cannot assist them in any way.

Calm Head

Acrylic on Primed and Raw Canvas, not stretched

180 x 145 cm

2023

The Thinker

Oil on canvas

130 x 85 cm

2023

At Night

Oil on canvas

135 x 120 cm

2023

Hell Life

Oil on canvas

120 x 85 cm

2023

Adolescence

Oil on canvas

120 x 85 cm

2023

Cave man

Oil on canvas

140 x 85 cm

2023

Lake

Oil on canvas

210 x 120 cm

2023

Hell

Hell Collection is the first part of a new trilogy inspired by an exhibition of Salvador Dali that I visited in Barcelona in 2022. The trilogy is divided into three parts - Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven - and my goal in this series is to represent my own feelings and understanding of religious concepts that are shared among the three main monotheistic religions, including my own birth religion of Islam.


The representation of the female body in art has been a subject of great interest throughout history. It has been depicted in countless ways, often embodying seemingly opposite concepts. It has been a symbol of fertility and purity, associated with the divine feminine, and it has also been portrayed as seductive and sinful, linked with temptation and transgression.

While my personal interest lies in the portrayal of female figures, I chose it as the primary subject for this series to challenge societal and religious taboos that surround it. By featuring female figures instead of male figures, which is the norm in religious art, I aimed to spark conversations around gender norms and representation.

A collection of past paintings.

Self-portrait of an immigrant

Oil on Canvas

60 x 40 cm

2023

Window

Oil on Canvas

40 x 60 cm

2022

Amer

Oil on Canvas

40 x 30 cm

2023

Woman and Cat

Oil on Canvas

40 x 60 cm

2019

Portrait of my Love

Oil on Canvas

90 x 60 cm

2017