Darvish Fakhr (Persian: درویش فخر ) (born 1969) is an Iranian American artist born in Newfoundland. He is an award-winning artist in the field of Iranian portrait paintings.
Born in 1969, Fakhr grew up in the U.S. before moving to Britain where his practice has been based for the last two decades.
Fakhr trained at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. In 2004 he won the BP Travel Award and used the opportunity to go to Iran and paint local people in Tehran and Isfahan.
Fakhr's paintings show the depths of emotion behind outwardly ritualised lives and aim to help us understand the common humanity that links the Western world and the Middle East. He explores the relationship between shared memory and the passage of time, looking both to the past and the future. He currently lives in Brighton, Sussex.
2014 "Palimpsest" Edge of Arabia, London
2013 "Farce" Aun Gallery, Tehran
2011 "Safar" Aun Gallery, Tehran
2008 Commissioned by Jerwood Gallery to paint Akram Khan. The nine piece panel is now part of the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
2007 "Embodiment" group show- Signal Gallery, Hoxton, London
2006 Included in Publication, "The Portrait Now" by Sandy Nairne and Sarah Howgate
2003 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London
2003 Quod Art Gallery, Brighton
2002 Chelsea Art Fair, London
2001 Medici Gallery, Piccadilly, London
2001 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2001 Royal West of England Academy, 3rd Place, Bristol
1998 Exhibition of Portraits at Blue Gallery, Chelsea
1997 Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art
1993 Annual Boit Competition, Museum School, Boston, Mass.
2007 BP Award- National Portrait Gallery, London and Edinburgh
2006 BP Award- National Portrait Gallery, London and Aberdeen
2005 BP Travel Award Show, National Portrait Gallery, London and Edinburgh
2004 Winner of BP Travel Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
2000 BP Award – National Portrait Gallery, London and Aberdeen
1999 BP Award – National Portrait Gallery, London and Aberdeen
1998 BP Award – National Portrait Gallery, London and Aberdeen
