Rasoul Moarek Nejad
Born in 1968, Isfahan, IRAN
Fin Art MA, (2001), Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran
Rasoul Moarek Nejad is an Iranian visual artist whose practice spans painting, video art, writing, and research. Since the late 1980s, he has developed an interdisciplinary body of work that explores the relationship between image, time, memory, and human experience.
His paintings and video works often emerge from close observation rather than direct narration. Rather than illustrating philosophical ideas, they investigate how images can shape perception, evoke memory, and reveal the fragile relationship between personal experience and collective history.
A recurring concern in his work is time—not as chronology, but as duration, repetition, and interruption. Through extended sequences, stillness, repetition, and the accumulation of everyday images, his video works encourage sustained attention and invite viewers to reconsider familiar experiences.
Many of his projects also engage with broader social realities, including war, migration, urban memory, and the ways historical events continue to inhabit contemporary life. These themes are approached indirectly, allowing visual structure and rhythm to carry meaning rather than explicit narrative.
Moarek Nejad began his professional career as a painter in 1989. His interest in moving images developed in the early 1990s, leading to his first video artwork, Creation (1994). Since 2007, video art has become the primary focus of his artistic practice while painting continues to inform his visual language.
Alongside his artistic practice, he has published books on art and aesthetics and has lectured and written on contemporary visual culture. His work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and video art festivals, reflecting an ongoing investigation into the possibilities of the moving image as a medium for critical and poetic reflection.
Exhibitions
Individual Exhibitions
- Contemporary Arts Museum, Isfahan, IRAN, 2003
- Contemporary Arts Museum, Isfahan, IRAN (Video Art), 2005
- Contemporary Arts Museum, Isfahan, IRAN (Painting & Video Art), 2008
- Contemporary Arts Museum, Isfahan, IRAN (Painting & Video Art), 2012
- Apadana Gallery, Isfahan, IRAN, Video Art (Video Performance and Installation), 2013
- Didar Gallery, Isfahan, IRAN, from a city of memory, Video Art, 2025
Group Exhibitions
- Embodiment, Group Exhibition, Curator: Tahoures bahadorani; Didar Gallery, Isfahan, IRAN, 2025
- AIAPI, Human Rights? Barad, (AIAPI UNESCO Partner), 2025
- A Branch of a Red Rose, Group Exhibition, Curator: Mehdi Tamizi; Didar Gallery, Isfahan, IRAN, 2024
- DECAY, Installation (Curator: Rasoul MoarekNejad), Didar Art Gallery, Isfahan, IRAN, 2023,
- Return to Berlin 2022, Video Art, Collective Art Exhibition in Berlin with Painting, Photography, Installation Art, and Performance, 2022
- BOREDOM, Group Multimedia Exhibition (Curators: Shahram Ahmadzadeh and Parisa Fahami), Vista Art Gallery, Tehran, IRAN, 2022
- BOREDOM, Group Multimedia Exhibition (Curators: Shahram Ahmadzadeh and Parisa Fahami), Doran Moaser Gallery, Isfahan, IRAN, 2022
- Purportedly Unrelated Narratives, Synthersizing Mind, video art and Installation Exhibition, Isfahan Museum Of Contemporary Art, Isfahan, IRAN, 2021
- Silk Road-Isfahan, Video Art.(Online Streaming on social media), UNESCO and Isfahan Museum Of Contemporary Art, 2021
- Then; Painter/ Now; Artist, A review of the artworks of Isfahan’s painter artists, , Isfahan Museum Of Contemporary Art, Isfahan, IRAN, 2019
- Limited Access 8, Multiple Access, Aaran Projects, New Media Projects, Tehran, IRAN, 2019
- Journey to Iran, (Curators: Nadia Vishnevska), Gary Bowman Art Gallery, Lviv, UKRAINE,2019
- The Multiple Access, Sound and Video, (Curators: Minou Iranpour ), Emrooz Gallery, Isfahan, IRAN, 2019
- Korean Nature Artist’s Association – YATOO (Wind), Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, 2018
- As simple as a possible narration, Video Art and Installation, (Curators: Rasoul Moarek Nejad ), Isfahan Museum Of Contemporary Art, Isfahan, IRAN, 2018
- BOTANICAL – Group Video Art Exhibition, Vista Art Gallery, Tehran, IRAN, 2017
- Korean Nature Artist’s Association – YATOO (Water), Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, 2016
- AIAPI, International Association of Plastic Arts Italy – Sole representative in Italy of IAA (AIAPI UNESCO Partner), 2016
- Contemporary Arts Museum, Isfahan, IRAN (Travelogue of Isfahan), 2016
- Aknoon Gallery, Video Performance and Installation (Curated by Samira Hashemi and Mona Aghababaei), 2015
- Contemporary Arts Museum, Isfahan, IRAN, 2015
- Khaju Bridge (Pol-e Khāju), Isfahan, IRAN (Water: Video Art), 2014
- Ali Gholi Aghs (Bath House Museum), Isfahan, IRAN (Water: Video Art), 2014
- Contemporary Arts Museum, Isfahan, IRAN (Video Art), 2013
- Iranian Artist’s Forum, The Review of a Decade of Video Art in Iran, Tehran (Video Art), 2013
- South Korea (Curators: Atefeh Khas & Fereshteh Alamshah), 2013
- Contemporary Arts Museum, Isfahan, IRAN (Video Art), 2012
- Contemporary Arts Museum, Isfahan, IRAN (Without Border 2) (Curated by Neda Darzi), (Video Art), 2010
- Athens Video Art Catalogue, Athens Video Art Festival, GREECE, 2010
- Visual Art of the Artists of Isfahan, Bahman Gallery, Tehran, IRAN, 2004
- 3rd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Artists, Isfahan, IRAN, 2003
- Dialogue Among Civilizations, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Isfahan, IRAN, 1999
- Group Exhibition, Kossar Gallery, isfahan, iran, 1996
- 3rd Biennale of Iranian Painting, Contemporary Arts Museum, Tehran, IRAN, 1995
- 2nd Iranian University Students Exhibition, Arak, IRAN, 1994 (Awarded)
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