Nicky Nodjoumi United States (born Iran), b. 1941

Nicky Nodjoumi (b. 1941, Kermanshah, Iran) is a contemporary artist who has used painting as his primary medium while exploring the relationship between power and violence for over 40 years. Nodjoumi participated in the 1979 Revolution in Iran and later also resisted the newly established regime, which ultimately resulted in his exile in the US. This led him to become a major driver in building a profound, political body of works taking social power structure and violence as its subject.  

Nicky Nodjoumi currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Earning a Bachelor’s degree in Painting from Tehran University of Fine Arts before relocating to the United States in the late 1960s, Nodjoumi received his Master’s degree in Fine Arts from The City College of New York in 1974. Nodjoumi’s works were selected by the New York Times in 2020 as one of “The 25 Most Influential Works of American Protest Art Since World War II”, and were recently cast in a new light in the “A Revolution on Canvas”(2023), HBO documentary film.

Nicky Nodjoumi's works are in several prominent institutional collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British Museum in London, Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi, the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, and the National Museum of Cuba. Major exhibitions of the artist’s work include those at the British Museum (2021), LA County Museum of Art (2018), Metropolitan Museum of Art (2015), and Cleveland Museum of Art (2014).