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Sameh Khalatbari
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Sameh Khalatbari is a San Francisco based Artist and Illustrator, born in Tehran, Iran.
She graduated form the University of Tehran with a Masters of Fine Art magna cum laude degree. She has exhibited her work internationally in Iran, United Arab of Emirate, Germany, Italy, and throughout California, including Los Angeles and San Francisco. In 2013 she was granted a genius visa as an Extra Ordinary Ability Artist from the United States government and for residence in California.
She is a Contemporary Surrealist painter and reveals her life experience and thoughts with familiar Persian symbols and aesthetically composed conceptually layered artworks. Traditional Islamic symmetrical painting that she has made and studied extensively, have influenced her art works with symbols both prominently featured and subtlety revealed and concealed in them.
Sameh is also a children book illustrator; She is experienced with wide variety of illustration style and published her first book (in English) "The Wisdom of the Yaqui the bear" in 2015.
Website: www.samehkhalatbari.com
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