Collection: Morteza Niknahad

Morteza Niknahad is a self-taught photographer, born in Bandar Abbas, a harbour city in the south of Iran.

Besides being a great photographer with brilliant ideas, he is a hardworking artist with visions for the future of art in Iran. In his works, he explores the contemporary world, the human condition and relationships.

Morteza has directed several fiction films. Morteza has got a taste for the cinema which is giving him a real sense of narration through the image. His works have been exhibited in Iran and Internationally such as Festival Rencontres d’Arles 2017, exhibition “Iran: Year 38."

Short Films:

Red Island, 2015

Snow in Mr. Abbas’s Seaport, 2013

Unpublished Dialogues of Jaleh, 2012

Solo Exhibition:

Public Place, Azad art Gallery. Tehran: July 2016 (IR)

Photo Exhibitions:

Big Fish, Silencio. Paris: July 2018

Click, Arta Gallery. Toronto: May 2018

228, Silk Road Art Gallery, 2018

Maze, Negah Gallery. Tehran 2018

Iran: Year 38, Les rencontres de la photographie, Arles & Jimaie. China 2018

Iran: Year 38, Les rencontres de la photographie, Arles. July/August 2017 (FR)

Merci Poesi is the Gothenburg International Poetry Festival. World Culture Museum. Gothenburg: April 2017 (SE)

“Mixed Realities," Frankfurt Berger Street, 2017 (DE)

"Every Day Iran Project," Silk Road Art Gallery, 2016 (IR)

"Personal Reality,” Mordad Gallery, 2017 (IR)

"Personal Reality," Taropood Art Gallery, 2016 (IR)

Before the After, Garmsary Gallery. Bandar Abbas: February 2015 (IR)