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Nodjoumi paints mostly monumental allegories mixing opaque symbolism and surrealism. His characters range from Mullahs in turbans and flowing robes to Western bureaucrats in ill fitting suits. His medium is mostly acrylic on canvas and gouache on paper.
Nicky Nodjoumi was born in Teheran, Iran in 1942. He studied art at the Teheran University of Fine Arts (BA) From 1963-67. He also studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1971-72) and got his MFA at the City College in New York (1972-74). He works and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
He is a contemporary artist who has used painting as his primary medium while exploring the relationship between power and violence for over 40 years. That Nodjoumi participated in the political revolution that took place in in Iran and as a result was expelled from the country led him to become a major driver in building a profound, political body of works taking social power structure and violence as its subject. The main keywords in Nodjoumi’s work are “ambiguity” and “drama,” with ambiguity here referring to the possibility of observation and expansion of an object with a multi-layered meaning, rather than a lack of position. Nodjoumi leaves room for interpretation and imagination through the intentional arrangement of different events and scenes, instead of direct or critical references to the socio-political events reported in the news.
