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Hamed Rashtian, Born 1984
Hamed Rashtian was born in Tehran, on September
14th1984. He was born into a cultural family. His father
is a documentary film producer and his mother a
Journalist. He has one younger brother, studying Pure
Mathematics in the same Shahid Beheshti University.
In 1998 during teenage years, Hamed joind Jihad
university (part of Tehran university) for design
classes. Later on, he finished his high school
education, in the field of mathematics and physics. He
was later accepted into Shahid Beheshti university (in
year 2002) in Tehran. He continued to study pure
mathematics and physics.
During his education in this university, Hamed started
to build a solid foundation in sculpting. He started to
put his ideas and design onto the paper, in perspective.
At the same time he started to exercise a hands on
approach to building molds and using a variety of
materials, to build his first sculptures. Hamed was very
pleased with his improvement in sculpting and never
looked back.
In the Iranian universities, its almost impossible to
change your original choice of study, and as university
courses are too much, to do both, after 2½ years, Hamed
made his choice of sculpting over pure mathematics.
Before this difficult decision Hamed worked in an "Art
workshop" under the supervision of Mr. Shojaeddin
Shahabi for 1½ years and spend one year working together
with a team of young Artists.
Hamed attended a number of courses, teached by Mojtaba
Ramzi, Ramin Saadat and other experts. In this time
frame, when he had allocated 100 pct of his time on
building sculptures, he met Mr. Tanavoli, the leading
contemporary Iranian sculptor and as he was deeply
fascinated by Mr. Tanavoli knowledge and ingenious.
Hamed attended Mr. Tanavoli classes on Bronze sculpture
techniques and remained in contact with his mentor, ever
since. He assisted Mr. Tanavoli on building of his
sculptures in Mr. Tanavolis atelier, for some time.
Hamed participated in a number of personal or group
exhibitions, as follows:
- 1st “Makous” group exhibition, Assar art gallery,
Tehran (2006)
- 1st “Haft Negah” group exhibition, Niavaran art
center, Tehran (2007)
- “Dust In The Wind” Solo exhibition, Mah-e-Mehr art
gallery, Tehran (2007)
- “Self portrait” group exhibition, Imam Ali museum,
Tehran (2007)
- “50 Artist” exhibition, Mah art gallery, Tehran (2007)
- “5th Biannual Sculpture exhibition of Tehran”, Tehran
museum of
contemporary art (2007-2008)
- Day art gallery group exhibition, Tehran (2008)
- 2nd “Haft Negah” group exhibition, Niavaran art
center, Tehran (2008)
- 2nd “Small sculptures” group exhibition, Artists House
Center, Tehran (2008)
- 2nd “Makous” group exhibition, 10 art gallery, Tehran
(2008)
- 3rd “Small sculptures” group exhibition, Artists House
Center, Tehran (2009)
- 2nd “Jungle” group exhibition, Shirin art gallery,
Tehran (2009)
- “There Is a Hole” solo exhibition, Etemad art gallery,
Tehran (2009)
- “The seeds of Baobab” group exhibition, Aaran art
gallery, Tehran (2009)
- “Under 35 years old sculptors” group exhibition,
Artists House
Center, Tehran (2009)
- Golestan Art Gallery exhibition, Tehran (2009)
In The first International Sculpture Symposium of
Tehran, he worked with a British sculptor named
Malgorzata Bialek.
In addition to above education, Hamed also participated
in a number of other courses, presented in Mah-e-Mehr
Private Art School, as follows:
- History of Contemporary Arts, instructed by Mr.
Alireza Sami Azar (8 semesters).
- History of Arts, Aidin Aghdashloo (4 semesters)
- Philosophy of Arts, Dr.Mohammad Ghasempour and Dr.
Mohammad Zamiran (1 semester)
- History of Iranian Contemporary Arts, Dr.Hamid
Keshmirshekan (1 semester)
Achievements:
• Hamed received honor of award by the refries at the
fifth Biannual sculpture Exhibition of Tehran during
21st Nov. 2007- 5th Jan. 2008), among more than 100
participants.
• Hamed is now a member of ISS (Iranian sculpture
society) and builds sculpture, as a professional Artist.
• Dr Robert C Morgan wrote a critique on “There Is a
Hole” collection which was Hamed’s last solo exhibition.
Edited by Ali Zand Karimi
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