About

Golnaz Afraz, an Iranian artist, who was born in Tehran in 1981. Golnaz attended the University of Azad in Tehran for her undergraduate studies in painting. She has also received two Masters of Arts in Fine Art: the first of these degrees conferred by University of Tarbiat Modarres in Tehran in 2007 and the second in 2011 by the University of Strasbourg in France. She lives in France now and she has been a member of the Association of Iranian Painters of Tehran since 2007. She has participated in several solo and joint exhibitions in Europe and Asia since 2005.

Winner of the Saatchi Art Showdown prize for  »Painted world »,2015.

Golnaz AFRAZ explores a variety of themes in her work, each of which can be seen as poignant in terms of both individual and universal experience. She explores notions of life in the philosophical sense, and in the everyday, all through analysing man and his relationship with nature and his surroundings . She is like a filmmaker who is making a film. She creates her scenes on paper and canvas. The exciting thing for her is the strange conflict that sometimes occurs between what a painting seems to say (or she tells us) and what it shows us (how it tells us so).

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