Towhidi Tabari

• Name — توحیدی طبری Towhidi Tabari • Born — 15 June 1964 • Birthplace — Babol, Iran • Occupation — calligrapher, painter, illuminator, collector

He started learning calligraphy at the age of 14, with Mohammad Zaman Ferasat and Mehdi Fallah Moghadam in Babol. At 19, he moved to Tehran to study at the Society of Iranian Calligraphists' institute with Masters Gholam Hossein Amirkhani and Yadollah Kaboli Khansari, where he himself got the title of Master of Calligraphy, while also learning Fine Arts, Iranian traditional arts and Graphic Design. Towhidi Tabari worked for 6 years at the Iran Aircraft Industries as the chief calligrapher and designer, in their Graphic Design Department. For one year, he taught Calligraphy at the Jahad Daneshgahi (branch of University of Tehran) and for two years, at the Osweh Highschool, Tehran. Modern Western art had a deep impact on his style from 2003, after a stay of almost a year at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, giving birth to a more abstract art form, blended with traditional Persian elements. Towhidi Tabari is a specialist in the Nasta`liq and Shekasteh calligraphic styles.

From his first collective exhibition in 1986, starting officially his career, he has exhibited in various countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia in more than 50 individual exhibitions and participated in over 100 collective exhibitions, becoming a world-renowned calligrapher. Some of them: • 1986 Contemporary Calligraphers of Mazandaran province, Iran. • 1987 National Congress of Calligraphy, Ramsar, Iran • 1989 Noshirvani Institute of Technology, Babol • 1992 Daryabeygui Gallery, Tehran • 1993 Zarrabi Gallery, Tehran • 1995 Daryabeygui Gallery, Tehran • 1996 Art Gallery, Babol • 1997 Avicenne Cultural Center, Tehran • 1998 Iranian Associations, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg; Germany • 1998 La Maison d'Iran, Paris, France • 1999 Contemporary Arts Museum, Tehran • 1999 Syrian Cultural Center, Paris, France • 1999 François Mitterrand National Library of France for the commemorations of Hafez • 1999 International Omar Khayyam Congress UNESCO, Paris • 2000 Iranian Cultural Center, Paris • 2000 Individual exposition in the Los Angeles Iranian Association, U.S. • 2002 Lebanon Fine Arts University, Tripoli • 2002 ARTSUD, Palais de Congrès, Paris • 2002 Great Mosque, Paris • 2003 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris • 2003 Mediathèque Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France • 2004 National Library of Croatia, Zagreb • 2004 Salle André Malraux, Yerres, Île-de-France, France • 2005 Exposition of works based on the poetry of Rumi, Iranian Cultural Center, Paris • 2005 Exposition on the occasion of the Iranian New Year, city of Cesson Sevigné, France • 2006 Nuit Blanche 2006 edition, National Archives of Paris, France • 2007 Exposition at the city of Cogolin-Sainte Maxime, Côte d'Azur, France • 2007 Festival of Calligraphy, Théoule-sur-Mer, Cannes, France • 2007 Cultural Center of Courbevoie, Île-de-France, France • 2014 Institut des cultures arabes et méditerranéennes • Illustration — Persian Calligraphy and Illumination School

Since the beginning of his European career, Towhidi Tabari has given many interviews on the radio and TV, besides conferences in different institutions about traditional Persian arts and its history, as for example: • 2004 Academy of Fine Arts of Zagreb, Croatia

Towhidi Tabari has also developed work as a graphic designer, designing more than 50 posters, logos, invitations, page layouts, pamphlets, booklets and book covers. • Khanevade Sabz magazine logo, Tehran, Iran. • "Shiraz: Persian Paradise" poster, catalogue and invitations; Asnières-Sur-Seine, France. • "Regard Persan": Persian Art Exposition (poster and catalogue), Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France. • Rumi Festival, poster, catalogue and invitation, UNESCO, Paris, France • Hafez Festival, poster, catalogue and invitations, Palais de la Découverte, Paris, France. • Celebration of Hafez, poster, catalogue and invitations, Château de Versailles, France. • "Hanooz", poetry book by Mohammad Mokri, book cover, Paris, France.

Towhidi Tabari is recorded with the occupation graphic designer. Classed in the genre art of illumination. Classed in the genre calligraphy. Recorded as painter, designer, illuminator and graphic designer.