rn in Iran in 1982, Mohammad Hassan Nikbakht received his Bachelor of Arts in Painting from Elm o Farhang University, Tehran in 2009. A member of the Society of Iranian Painters (SIP) and the Institute for Promotion of Visual Arts in Iran, Nikbakht has held numerous group exhibitions within Iran since 2008 and his first solo exhibition of his ‘Mushroom Series’, was held in 2010 with Siin Gallery of Tehran. In 2013, Nikbakht was exhibited for the first time outside Iran with Magic of Persia’s Contemporary Art Prize Shortlist Exhibition, held at the Emirates Financial Towers in Dubai.

  

 Of his work Dr. Behnam Kamrani has stated, “Mohammad Hassan Nikbakht creates peculiar and ironic but at the same time simple elements, such as Mushrooms and brail writings... The brail scripts not only contain meanings but also create embosses and points resembling the ancient signs or computers punch lines. Mushrooms are dependent plants with shapes which remind of atomic explosions. The link between these two definitions may be interpreted either intellectually or simply, but the ease of meaning and the trance mood conveyed from works have a great impact on the audience’s mind and lingers there.”