biography

Mina Didehban, born in 1986 in Dezful city, in north of Iran. after graduation in the field of Graphics continued Painting professionally before Prof. Karim Nasr from 2007 till 2010, then she has been continuing Painting under guidance of Prof. Keivan Asgari since 2015. she participated in several group exhibitions and a solo one in Iran and Spain.

Her childhood gift is the first spark of Painting, the colored pencil box which is left as memorial from her father.

The pictorial factors that now Mina find in her paintings are influenced by the external and internal factors including her dead mother’s body and Dezful city, her mother’s city. The porches, vaults, stairs and nested corridors created the wonders of her works’ mysterious world. Before her immigration, she was the assistant of Kayvan Asgari and since 2017 painting and photography are most important concerns of her life.

Observing scenes from documentary about Balthus’s living, in which his children are scratching walls and finding pictures, provided significant effect in technique way for her.  

The line as a major visual factor inclined her works more to design, and what fascinated her in design is the possibility of improvisation and finding undisguised mysteries.