Farhad Foroutanian

By LatAm ARTE

Farhad is half Dutch and half Iranian and was born in 1957 in Tehran. He studied at the Tehran Academy of Fine Arts in 1979 and since 1977 he has been a cartoonist and illustrator. He emigrated to the Netherlands in 1986 and worked independently since 1988 with different Dutch publishers such as: “Rotterdams Dagblad”, “Algemeen Dagblad”, “Viceversa” and “Vrij Nederland”. He is a member of different artist associations, for example: Dutch “Pers & Prent” (Association of Dutch Publishing Artists), FECO (Federation of European Cartoonists) and AIDA (International Advocacy Association for Artists). In addition, he was an adviser to the Awards for Visual Artists of "The Prince Claus Foundation" of the Netherlands. Farhad also works for newspapers, magazines and websites in different countries such as “Nebelspalter” (Switzerland), “La Voce” (Italy), “Shargh” (Iran) “Seven magazine” (Iran) and “Don Quichotte” (Germany). . In addition, he participated in 43 national and international cartoon exhibitions in Iran, Japan, Poland, Portugal and Turkey and organized more than 35 individual and 40 group exhibitions in different countries such as: • Exhibition "Berlin Underground" - 2008 • Prince Claus Foundation, The Hage – 2006 • Aria Gallery - Tehran - 2006 • RIDEP – France - 2005 • Best Dutch Visual Art 2005, The Hage. • “Best Benelux Cartoons” – 2004 Belgium, • “House of cartoons” - Tehran – 2003 and 2004 • “Gallery Gemeente” - Zuid Holland - 2003 • “Mystic world” – Copenhagen, Denmark - 2002 • Musea di Risorgimento di Ferrara - Italy - 2000 Awards and honours Best political cartoon - Belgium - 2004 Award for the best Visual Work of Emiglia/Romagna, Italy – 1998 Award for Best Design by EK, Rotterdam - 2000