10 Facts About Kamran Khavarani

Kamran Khavarani was born on 1941 and is an Iranian-American architect and painter.

Kamran Khavarani has won multiple awards for his residential and commercial designs and a painter trained in the classical style.

Kamran Khavarani later designed the World Trade Bank of Beverly Hills, for which he won a design award from the City of Beverly Hills Architectural Commission.

Kamran Khavarani took painting more seriously after arriving in the States.

Kamran Khavarani's painting style was discovered by the late Professor Albert Boime, a Social Art Historian from UCLA.

Boime wrote The Birth of Abstract Romanticism, Art for a New Humanity, Rumi and the Paintings of Kamran Khavarani, dedicating the entire volume to the works of Kamran Khavarani.

In 2010, Kamran Khavarani's drawing, titled "The Bird of Freedom" was presented by Nowruz Commission to the spirit of Thomas Jefferson and accepted into the Library of Congress by James Hadley Billington.

Kamran Khavarani is trained in classical painting, his early works were painted in this style.

Kamran Khavarani's works include ink sketches and lifelike portraits In more recent years, his paintings are inspired by the Persian poet Jalal ad-Din Rumi.

Kamran Khavarani's most recognized achievement is the creation of "Abstract Romanticism".