Kamyab, 2026

About Jila Kamyab

Jila Kamyab is well known for her semi-abstract landscape paintings. Kamyab, an art professor, ceramicist and contemporary painter, was born in 1957, Kermanshah, Iran. She started studying at the Faculty of Decorative Arts in 1976, and after a break, she continued her studies at the undergraduate and master’s level at Tehran University of Art and Architecture, and graduated in 1994. She was awarded in The Second Iranian Contemporary Painting Biennial in 1993. Her first solo exhibition was held in Golestan gallery in 1995. She attended Raku course in atelier Mire in Paris in 2004. She is a member of Iran Painters Association, Iranian Ceramists Association and also Iranian Canadian Association of Visual Artists. Her pottery works with motifs and abstract geometrical forms and colors refer to adobe and mudbricks in Iran traditional architecture. Her ceramics of course are successful combinations of material, motifs and conventional colours with modern forms and technique.