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NICKY NODJOUMI: PAINTING AND POLITICS
Yoo Jin Sang

Nicky Nodjoumi was born in 1942 in Kermanshah, Iran. Going to the United States for studies immediately after graduation from the undergraduate program at the Tehran University of Fine Arts in 1967, he obtained a master's degree in fine arts from the City College of New York in 1974. Following graduation, he returned to Teheran and worked as a lecturer at an art college. Taking part in the criticism of the ruling Pahlavi dynasty, which ignited amidst a revolutionary atmosphere centering on students in 1979, Nodjoumi produced political …