Kiyoomars Kiyasat

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He is a contemporary Iranian painter and caricaturist. He was born in 1948 in Tabriz and spent his primary school at “Farvardin” primary school during the s 1955 to 1961. He completed his secondary education at “Amirkhizi” secondary school in 1967 and after completing his military education he went to the University from Tabriz. Kiaast first studied physics at university in 1974, but a year later he entered the field of electronics and graduated from university in 1979. Upon completion of his military service, Kiyomars Kiaast was hired by the Ministry of Energy and retired in 2002 from the Azerbaijan Regional Electric Company. He has contributed to magazines and newspapers such as “Ferdowsi”, “Negin”, “Friday Information Book”, “Kayhan”, “Kayhan Cartoon” and “Adinah Mahdi Weekly” since 1979. Unlike most cartoonists, he did not work with comic magazines, tended to be elitist-oriented cartoonists, and, in the sense of seriousness, went beyond serious jokes. He has participated in more than 100 solo and group exhibitions in Iran, as well as in Turkey, Japan, South Korea, Bulgaria, Austria, Yugoslavia, Germany, Macedonia, Italy and Belgium. Individual expositions • Main Gallery – Tabriz - 1974 • Persepolis Persepolis Gallery – Tehran - 1976 • Role room. Tehran - 1977 • Carpenter's gallery. Shiraz - 1977 • Mani Gallery. Tabriz - 1978 • Role room. Tehran - 1979 • Sheikh's Gallery - Tehran • House of Artists - Tehran - 2015 • Sarbanes Gallery - Tehran - 2016 • Sarbanes Gallery - Tehran • 8th Tehran Biennial Cartoon - Tehran • Twenty-Eighth Exhibition - Nasruddin Hoja, Türkiye • Twenty-ninth Exhibition – Nasruddin Hoja, Türkiye • 30th Nasruddin Hojja Exhibition, Türkiye • Thirty-first exhibition - Nasruddin Hoja, Türkiye - 2011 • Cartoon Exhibition, Pedestrian Life in the City - 2011 • Thirty-fourth Nasruddin Hoja Exhibition, Türkiye - 2014 • Gallery A memory "Arapik Baghdasarian" - Tehran • Tehran Cartoon House Group Exhibition – 2017 Awards and honours • Special Prize from the Turkish Cartoonists Association of the 5th Nasruddin Hoja Cartoon Exhibition - 1979 • Plaque of gratitude for the cartoon "Blue Sky of Tehran" - 1994 • Certificate of Appreciation from the 4th Taijun Cartoon Exhibition in Korea - 1995 • Certificate of Recognition from the 6th Japan Exotic Cartoon Exhibition - 1996 • Certificate of Recognition from the 7th Japan Exotic Cartoon Exhibition - 1997 • Certificate of recognition from the 3rd Tehran Biennial Cartoon Exhibition - 1998 • Special Award from the Association of Turkish Chambers of Architects for the 17th Nasruddin Hoja Cartoon Exhibition - 1997 • Second prize in the cartoon contest on the theme "Walking around the city" in Tehran - 2011 ...more ...less