Iranian Cartonist Kambiz Derambakhsh

Graphic Designer-Cartoonist-Illustrator Kambiz Derambakhsh

Date of birth: 1942
Place of birth: Shiraz, Iran

Education: Graduated from Tehran Academy of Fine Arts

Press activities: 55 years of continuous cooperation with well-known local and international newspapers and magazines

Exhibitions: 50 individual exhibitions inside and outside Iran and tens of collective exhibitions inside and outside Iran

International prizes and honours: Winner of First Prizes at the greatest and most accredited international caricature competitions in Japan, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Turkey, Brazil and Yugoslavia; winner of several other international prizes

• Guest judge at several international caricature exhibitions
• Honorary member of Iranian Association of Graphic Designers
• Honorary member of Iranian Association of Visual Arts
• Member of Iranian Association of Veteran Artists
• Member of Iranian Guild Association of Journalists
• Received First-class Art Medal and Badge (equivalent in value to a Ph D) from Iranian Association for Development of Visual Arts
• Admitted to, and the person in charge of safe keeping at, the world’s accredited museums including Tehran Contemporary Arts Museum, Academy of Arts, Saba House, National Library, Man Honar No Museum, Iranian Syndicate of Graphic Designers, Avignon Museum in Paris, Basel Caricature Museum in Switzerland, Gabrovo Caricature Museum in Bulgaria, Hiroshima Museum in Japan, Anti-war Museum in Yugoslavia, Istanbul Caricature Museum in Turkey, Warsaw Caricature Museum in Poland, Frankfurt Municipality Hall in Germany and ….
• Author of several books on illustration and caricature, among them: “No Comments” (Iran), “Contemporary Satirists in Iran” (Austria), “Kambiz’ Book” (Italy), “The World is My Home” (France), “Diaries of Angels”, “Don’t Bother the Labouring Ant”, “Had da Vinci Seen Me”, “Laughing Olympics”, “Scratch Symphony” and several other books which are to be published
• Teaching records as Professor of Caricature at University of Tehran
• Activities and works in field of advertising (book covers design, illustration of children’s books, posters, short films, post cards, calendars and ….)
• Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 2014

Kambiz Derambakhsh by Bozorgmehr Hosseinpur on Derambakhsh’s birthday in June 2012

More about Kambiz Derambakhsh on May 2008 in payvand.com:
Kambiz Derambakhsh – A Peace Loving and Poetical Cartoonist by Syma Sayyah, Tehran

Some of his works:

Sources: Facebook | Kambiz Derambakhsh – Info, Facebook | Kambiz Derambakhsh – Photo Albums