About...

Moein Sho
Concept Artist

Born in Kerman, Iran — 1986

I have been drawing since childhood. Portraiture and anatomy became my language before I knew what language meant. Later, I graduated in Graphics from Azad University (2007), but my real education happened inside the studio — and outside it, on the streets, in the news, in the silence between people.

What inspires me?

Politics. Human relations. The masks we wear. The faces we hide.

My work is not about beauty. It is about tension — between power and weakness, love and betrayal, concealment and eruption. I am interested in the moment before a feeling breaks through. The second when the poker face cracks.

My artistic approach

I work primarily with oil on canvas. Realism, but not classical. I distort what needs to be distorted. I exaggerate what society tries to hide — veins, muscles, suffocation, desire.

Each series is a research project. I spend months reading, writing, sketching, before the first brushstroke. My paintings are not illustrations. They are arguments. Questions frozen in oil.

Current Projects

Poker Face – 100 portraits on emotional concealment

Remigration – 30–40 oil paintings on racism and redemption

Red Glasses – Approximately 15 works on political filters, paradox of power, and survival

Selected Exhibitions

Solo:

Faryad Art Gallery – Kerman (2013, 2014)

Group:

Selected Painting "Gravity Fall" – Figurative Festival 2015, Barcelona, Spain (MEAM Museum)

"Mardamard" – Lajevardi Foundation, Tehran (alongside Ardeshir Mohasses, Fereydoon Ave, Nikzad Nojomi)

Versus Festival – Artists' House, Tehran (2014)

3rd Portraiture Festival – Shirin Art Gallery, Tehran (2014)

San'ati Contemporary Arts Museum – Kerman (2008, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)

Panjereh Art Gallery – Tehran (2013)

Yadegaran Gallery – "Zandan, Zendan, Rendan" – Kerman (2016)

Yadegaran Gallery – Drawing – Kerman (2018)

Yadegaran Gallery – Metropolitan – Kerman (2019)

Artibition Gallery – "Tan-haa" – Tehran (2019)