Mahmood Sabzi

Born in Ahwaz, Iran, 1955, He earned a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering at the University of shahid Chamran( Jundi Shapur) in1976.

Sabzi’s early works were primarily realistic, exploring the historical and cultural themes of his homeland.  His desire to study modern art led him from Iran to Germany in1985, and eventually to the United States in 1991. Mahmood Sabzi has held numerous solo and collective exhibitions since 1987 through the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan and his works are permanently housed in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran. Many of his works have been published, including ” Enduring Mysteries “  – Collected works of Sabzi 1999 (Text by Abbas Daneshvari, Ph.D. Professor of Art History, CSU, Los Angeles) and ” Memories ” – Collected works of Sabzi 2007 (Text by Carlo Lamagna, Chair, Department of Fine Arts , New York University).

The works of Sabzi, in one sense, underline the incongruities of the East-West spheres. On the other hand the works also show that various disparate visions and concept can be brought together seamlessly, if and only if, one is the inhabitant of both worlds. In so many ways  Sabzi’s paintings represent  the  cultural and the counter cultural forces at play in our hybrid and multi-cultural world.

Museum Participations :

Las Ollas Museum of Art

1993-1994 Fort Lauderdale, Florida                                                                           U.S.A.

Lowe Art Museum,

1994  Miami,  Florida                                                                           U.S.A.

Museum Collection :

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art                                                                       IRAN

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)                                                      U.S. A

Qatar Museum of Islamic Art Doha                                                                        Qatar