

| Birth | Born in 1981 in Téhéran, Iran |
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| Residency | She lives and works in Paris, France |
| Education | 2007 - Visual Arts Research Master’s degree - Université Paris I, Paris, France 2005 - Graduated at l’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris (Atelier de Pat Andrea), Paris, France |
| 2025 | Sommes-nous, Duo avec Marion Bataillard, L’Artothèque, Espaces d’art contemporain, Caen, France |
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| Beneath The Fabric of the World, TEMPLON Brussels, Belgium | |
| 2024 | Nazanin Pouyandeh, Musée Paul Valéry, Sète |
| Désobéissantes, Fondation GGL, Montpellier, France | |
| 2022 | Nazanin Pouyandeh, Galerie municipale Julio Gonzalez, Arcueil, France |
| Kallisté, galerie Sator, Komunuma, Romainville, France | |
| Art Brussels, Galerie Sator, Tour & Taxis, Bruxelles, Belgique |
| 2026 | Personal Stories / Political Realities, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia |
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| Par-delà les Mille et Une Nuits. Histoire des orientalismes, Louvre Lens, Lens, France | |
| Par-delà les Mille et Une Nuits. Histoire des orientalismes, Louvre Lens, Lens, France | |
| Karte Blanche, Citizen K, Paris, France | |
| Bonnes mères, Mucem, Marseille, France | |
| Sommes-nous, Artothèque de Caen, Caen, France | |
| 2025 | Le mystère Cléopâtre, Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France |
| 2026 | First prize, Prix Carta Bianca 2026 |
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| Finaliste du Prix Her Art 2026, Art Paris, Paris, France | |
| Finalist for the 2026 Her Art Prize, Art Paris, Paris, France | |
| 2020 | Fabbrica Culturale Casell’ar te, Venaco, Corse, avril-mai 2021 |
| 2018 | Artist residency, Chamalot, Corrèze, France |
| 2017 | Artist residency, Le Centre, Cotonou, Benin |
| 2011 | Artist residency, Chamalot, Corrèze, France |
| 2025 | The Time of Painting in the Face of the Flow of Current Images, conversation with Jean-Michel Alberola, Marcos Carrasquer, Julien Des Monstiers and Nazanin Pouyandeh, moderated by Amélie Adamo, Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris, France |
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| 2019 | Être peintre aujourd’hui, Lecture around contemporary art with Le Pôle Art Moderne et Contemporain de Cannes (PAMoCC), France |
| 2018 | D’un atelier à l’autre, Atelier Ter, Ivry-sur-Seine, France |
Le Prix Carta Bianca annonce la sélection des artistes retenus pour son édition 2026
Julien Desneuf
12 femmes artistes à suivre
Nazanin Pouyandeh, peintre iranienne : "Rien ne me donne un espoir"
Philippe Dagen
Douze finalistes pour le P rix Her Art 2026
Une Source D'Inspiration sans Fin - Cléopâtre, muse des peintres
A l'Institut du monde arabe, vérités et légendes sur la reine Cléopâtre
Philippe Dagen
Galeries- Nazanin Pouyandeh
Nazanin Pouyandeh, la "sorcière des images" qui sublime les femmes fortes et amoureuses
Xavier de Moulins
Sous le soie, le glaive. Les étreintes de la résistance de Nazanin Pouyandeh
Gwennaëlle Gribaumont
De Berlinde de Bruyckere à Eva Nielsen, 5 expos à voir à Bruxelles
Camille Bois-Martin
Sous la soie, le glaive. Les etreintes de la resistance de Nazanin Pouyandeh
Gwennaelle Gribaumont
Vive la peinture !
5 expos a voir a Bruxelles
Belgique : l'artiste iranienne Nazanin Pouyandeh exposée à Bruxelles
Promenade au fil des galeries bruxelloises
Le Donne libere di Pouyandeh
3 questions à Nazanin Pouyandeh, paintre iranienne exposée chez Templon
Nazanin Pouyandeh
10 talents four du dessin contemporain repress a Drawing Now
Brigitte Aubignac et Nazanin Pouyandeh tout en connivence au Musée Paul-Valéry, à Séte
Philippe Dagen
Group show
Bangkok
From October 29, 2026 to February 28, 2027
Angels & Mara, the theme of Bangkok Art Biennale, explores dialectical opposites between the realms of goodness and the undesirable. This edition will be the arena for artists local and afar to reflect their views on the suffering world we live in. Pierre and Gilles and Nazanin Pouyandeh will present their work as part of the biennale.
Group show
Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Serbia
From June 12 to September 20, 2026
The Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade presents Personal Stories / Political Realities, a major international exhibition developed in collaboration with the Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon. First presented in Lyon in the fall of 2025, Nazanin Pouyandeh’s work Or Noir will now be on display in Belgrade.
Award
Nazanin Pouyandeh won the first price of the @prixcartabianca. A major initiative supporting contemporary artistic creation, developed between France and Italy, the Carta Bianca Prize aims to create a dialogue between the worlds of art and health. The violent events currently unfolding in Iran find a persistent echo in Nazanin Pouyandeh’s work. Without ever taking the form of a manifesto, her painting captures the tensions of an era marked by crises, bearing witness to an increasingly unstable and unsettling world.
Group show
Louvre-Lens
From March 25 to July 20, 2026
Through 300 masterpieces, the Louvre-Lens explores the construction of imaginaries associated with the East, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Exceptional loans from the Louvre Museum will be complemented by contemporary works that challenge these legacies and offer new interpretations. Among them: Brune en Lucrèce by Nazanin Pouyandeh.
Group show
Mucem, Marseille
From March 18, 2026 to August 31, 2026
On the occasion of the group show Bonnes mères (Good Mothers) at the Mucem in Marseille, Omar Ba, Pierre et Gilles, Prune Nourry, and Nazanin Pouyandeh will each exhibit a work on the theme of motherhood and its representations: Guéno (2024), La Vierge à l’enfant (Hafsia Herzi and Loric) from 2009, Empreinte d’une Grande Vénus (Lespugue) from 2024, and Le voyage souterrain (2015).
Curators: Caroline Chenu and Anne-Cécile Mailfert.
Group show
Citizen K - 43 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth, Paris
From Friday, January 16 to Sunday, January 18, 2026
Nazanin Pouyandeh has been invited by CitizenK media to exhibit five paintings and drawings at a “Karte Blanche” group show in Paris. Each artist featured in the exhibition was selected for their unique vision and interviewed by the magazine during the year.
Group show
macLYON, France
From September 19, 2025, to January 4, 2026
On the occasion of the group show Histoires personnelles / Réalités politiques at macLYON, Nazanin Pouyandeh will exhibit her work Or noir from September 19, 2025, curated by Isabelle Bertolotti, Maja Kolarić, Miroslav Karić, and Matthieu Lelièvre. The touring exhibition will be presented at the MoCAB in Belgrade in spring 2026.
Group show
Artothèque, Caen
From June 28 to October 11, 2025
On the occasion of the group show Sommes-nous at the Artothèque de Caen, curated by Yvan Poulain and Patrick Roussel, Nazanin Pouyandeh exhibits her works from June 28, 2025. The exhibition brings together Marion Bataillard and Nazanin Pouyandeh, two women painters who share the same commitment to the representation of the inhabited body, traversed by multiple, sometimes contradictory, often fragmented narratives