Robert C. Morgan’s writings on Ahmad Nadalian Art Works in American Journals

Robert C. Morgan to Nadalian 2006 “I was so impressed with your concept, working at low tide in the early mornings to carve signs that during the day would be concealed.  It calls into question so much about time, history, language, meaning, and sculpture.” “I have great respect for what you are doing and have […]

Works and interviews with Nadalian in the book Dialogues in Diversity by John K.Grande

“Dialogues in Diversity: Art from Marginal to Mainstream” by John K. Grande  2007 Synopsis Grande asks: “What is the relationship of art to the environment?” “How can art make us see and think about the world around us?” “What can art do to preserve the future of our planet and enrich our lives?” What people […]

Publication of Ahmad Nadalian’s work in the book Art of Tomorrow by Edward Lucy Smith

John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith, known as Edward Lucie-Smith, is writer, poet, art critic, curator and broadcaster. He has been highly prolific in these fields, writing or editing over a hundred books, his subjects gradually shifting around the late 1960s from mostly literature to mostly art. On 14 Nov 2002   Edward Lucie-Smith in a lecture at the […]

Ahmad Nadalian’s works in various museums and centers around the world and in Iran

After Ahmad Nadalian’s participation in the Venice Biennale, curators, art centers, and museums from many countries invited him to exhibit and create new works. During his numerous international travels, he realized River Art, Sand Prints, Body Paintings, Performance Art, and many other projects in different parts of the world. While most of Nadalian’s artworks have […]

Activist & Protest Art by Ahmad Nadalian

Many of Ahmad Nadalian’s works can be categorized in the field of activist or protest art. He expresses his criticism and protest regarding ecological, social and political issues through creative expression; showing environmental destruction, cultural heritage, attention to neglect women’s rights and and their ruthless murder through body and performance art. These works lead to […]

Drawings on the walls of Mohsen’s house on Hormuz Island

For many yeard Ahmad Nadalian helped Mohsen to draw social subject, like outsider artists.  In 2015, after covering the cost of whitewashing the walls of Mohsen’s house, Nadalian helped Mohsen to draw the history, Culture ritual of Hormuz Island on the walls of his house. In adition Nadalian asked Mohsen’ to draw his life story […]

Academic CV of Ahmad Nadalian (Ph.D): Lectures, Researches and Articles

Biography 1983- 1988 Studies Painting Faculty of Fine Arts in Tehran University 1991- 1995  Studies Mphil/ Ph.D. at the University of Central England (UCE). After his PhD study at the University of Central England (UCE) in 1996 he focused on environmental art. Dr. Ahmad Nadalian is a renowned Iranian contemporary artist and academic, specializing in […]

Ahmad Nadalian: Turning challenges and threats into an opportunity to create social creative art

In the process of Nadalian’s artistic creation and Ahmad Nadalian’s life, challenges and threats become opportunities, the result of which is creative artistic creation in the field of social art. Documentation shows that artists throughout history have used the same method. The end result of a work of art cannot be determined in advance. The […]

Hidden Treasures of Ahmad Nadalian: An Art Exhibition for the Next Millenniums

In the past years, the people of Polour excavated the place where I carved several images on the local rocks. They hoped to find treasures there. According to a tradition in the north of Iran, the images of hands, fish and snake on the rocks can be a sign of treasure.  Posing this question is […]

Using the art of painting to teach creative management

In 1998 come to back Iran from England. After the invitation of the Iranian Oil Company some management professors from a Canadian university come to Iran and thir intention was to hold a management workshop for the senior managers of the oil company. They asked the organizers of the workshop to provide painting easels, canvases, […]