Bahram DABIRI was born in December 1950 (Sagittarius) year of Tiger in Shiraz, one of the most ancient and cultural cities of Iranian civilization, to a family with long cultural roots. He grew up surrounded by poems of Saadi and Hafez and influenced by great Iranian thinkers such as Roumi. The significant historical monuments surrounding the city of Shiraz, Takht-e-Jamshid (Persepolis) and the magnificent relief works of Naghsh-e-Rostam, also made a great impact on him and allowed him to dream about reviving the greatness of Iranian culture.

Bahram Dabiri graduated from Tehran University of fine arts in 1976. He believed in graphical beauty and elegance of Iranian culture. He studied profoundly the Manichaean paintings and Shiraz School (school which had significant influence on the 20th century European painters such as Henri Matisse). He relentlessly and determinedly continued his search for a new innovative language in modern Iranian painting and at last found a contemporary language in which he was able to maintain the memory ofTakht-e-Jamshid and the aesthetic values of ancient Iranian culture by using color and mythical symbols in his paintings.

Baharam Dabiri believes that art and science are rooted in eastern culture and what is known by most critics to be a copy of western art is in fact Dabiri’s modernization of eastern tradition. By combining these traditions, Dabiri achieves a medium where there exists no west or east let alone boundaries, lines or frontiers.
Being aware of the importance of functional arts in the history of Iranian art, Dabiri was inspired to implement his creativity in other ways; ceramics, felt rug (Namad), Gabbeh and metal parts.
Baharam Dabiri’s main themes in his paintings are
women, love and material symbols.
“What one sees in the work of Baharam Dabiri is order and spontaneity… easy understating of elements and liberal use of color is what he masters in” wrote the Spanish magazine Absolute Marbella on its October 2001 issue.

Finally Time Magazine, on June 12, 2000 described Bahram as a modern painter who believes in beauty. Since Dabiri believes that women are the most beautiful creatures, he paints beauty, women and colors no matter what the social condition may be.