About:

Trained as a classical miniaturist in prestigious Tehran Visual Art Center, Nayera Majedi graduated in 1985. She was then an instructor for fifteen years, teaching courses that include Persian painting, gilding, drawing, and fundamentals of design and art at both the Tehran Visual Art Center and the Tehran Cultural Heritage Center for Traditional Art Studies (1986- 1999). She has exhibited worldwide from Europe, the Middle East, to the United States. Her training allows her to be one of the foremost interpreters of the Classical tradition of Persian painting incorporating all the major periods of artistic development. While Persian paintings are generally constrained to small sheets of high quality paper, Nayera Majedi has extracted stylistic elements of floral design in these line renderings of classical images. In her own paintings, she adapts traditional colors, forms, patterns, and symbols into her own new style, especially distinguished by her signature clouds.

Artist Statement: 

I intend to use traditional Persian painting methods in exploration of contemporary art. Furthermore I desire to make art accessible to the general public and show the western art community the joy of Iranian painting.

Professional and Teaching Experience:

1986-1999 Tehran Visual Art Center: Teaching courses including miniature painting, gilding and fundamentals of design and art.

1999-2001 Tehran Cultural Heritage Center for Traditional Art Studies: Teaching courses in miniature painting.

1986-2001 Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts: Numerous exhibitions. Two paintings purchased by museum for permanent collection, and three paintings printed in books.

2000-2001 Economic and Agriculture Bank of Iran: Commissioned for handmade tile relief mural. Completed January 2001, size 10 feet by 18 feet.

2001 Nayera Majedi relocating to the United States of America and exhibited her work at Augen gallery also at Littman Gallery-Portland state university.

Exhibitions:

 -February-March 1988

 -December 1991

 -January 1992

 -June-August 1995 

 -June-September 1998

Tehran Center of Art Studies

 -September-December 1986

Niavaran Fine Art Center (Tehran)

 -November 1996

Littman Gallery, Portland State University

 -September 2001

Augen Gallery, (Portland Oregon)

 -July-August 2002

Said Gallery

 -October 2012

West-Bank Gallery

 -October 2018

Various Locations in United Arab Emirates,Syria, and Switzerland

 -1999 – 2001