Born in Iran in 1928, Mokarrameh Ghanbari was a self-taught artist who began painting at the age of 61. She quickly produced a prolific body of work with a distinct visual language, even painting on the walls of her home when she ran out of paper. Mokarrameh became a defining figure of the Folk Art movement in Iran and held her first exhibition at Seyhon Gallery in Tehran in 1995.
Before her passing in 2005, the artist participated in ten additional exhibitions and was awarded the Jury Prize at the Roshd Film Festival. In 2001, she received the “Woman of the Year” award at the 12th International Conference of the Iranian Women’s Studies Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. That same year, she was also named “Female Painter of the Year” by the Swedish National Museum.
