Hayv Kahraman, Painter

Hayv Kahraman, Painter Hayv Kahraman was born in Baghdad in 1981. Her mother is Kurdish. Her secular parents “would hold soirees, gathering musicians and artists. I would sit in the adjacent room with my paper and paintbrush making quick strokes of color and every now and then one of those artists would come into the […]

Ziya Aydin, painter and glass master

Ziya Aydin, painter and glass master Ziya Aydin (1954- ) is a Kurdish painter and master stained glass artist living in France. He was born in Dersim and studied at the School of Fine Arts in Istanbul. In those years he also designed and produced works of stained glass, for sites including a TV building, a […]

Three Iranian Painters

Three Iranian Painters Iranian artists are taking inspiration from the anti-government protests that swept Iran after the murder of Mahsa Amini last September. After more than four decades of authoritarian clerical rule, the protest movement, and its slogan “Jin Jiyan Azadî,” changed the country, prompting young Iranians—including artists—to dream of a different future for their […]

Tahir Fatah

A Kurdish painter who has spent decades in Hollywood

Ismail Khayat, Kurdish artist, dies at 78

Ismail Khayat, Kurdish artist, dies at 78

Zehra Doğan

Zehra Doğan, Kurdish painter and journalist

Çand û Hunera, Amude

Cand û Hunera, Tirbespi, Rojava, October 2015