Statement:

Dariush started painting when he was 13 years old. After graduation in Petrochemical Engineering in
1985, he joined ministry of oil. In 1994 he resigned from his job as an engineer to work full time on
painting. In the same year he established Kamalolmolk Art Gallery in Tehran. Despite Kamalolmolk was a
successful gallery, it didn’t satisfy artistic nature of Dariush. He preferred to leave his gallery in 2001 and
devote all his time in painting.
Dariush has attended in many painting exhibitions both inside and outside his country. In 2005 he was
selected as the best painter in real and hyper-real style in Niavaran art exhibition in Tehran. In 2007, he
was selected to attend in 7th biannual exhibition of best contemporary painters of Iran, which was held in
Saba Institute of Art and Culture, Tehran.