Payman, 2026

About Peyman Pourhosein

Peyman Pourhosein is a Tehran-based graphic designer, art director, and curator, and co-founder of Studio Kargah (Tehran) and the Gonbad-e Kaboud Foundation (Paris). His practice operates at the intersection of graphic design, visual research, and curatorial work, with a particular focus on exhibition-making and cultural projects. He has curated and organized exhibitions, independently or in collaboration through Studio Kargah, including The World Became a Book; Books from Tehran at Galerie Ithaque, Paris (2022); Kenophobic, City, Tales (Studio Kargah 2001-2021) at the Biennale Internationale de Design Graphique, Chaumont (2021); Red Paper; Ideological Publications Issued by the Soviet Union at Nabshi Art Center, Tehran (2020); and Karnameh: Visual Culture of Iranian Children 1950-1980 at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (2016). His works have been exhibited internationally in countries including Belgium, Bulgaria, China, the Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United States. His works are held in major collections such as the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris; Le Signe-Centre National du Graphisme, Chaumont; the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London; the Wilanow Poster Museum, Warsaw; the Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich; and the Iranian Museum of Graphic Design, Tehran.