Arezou Nik-Ahd

Arezou Nikahd was born on February 11th, 1978. She has been captivated with art since her childhood and started to learn painting with her mother’s support. She had attended Kourosh Rezaeian calligraphy classes at Iran Calligraphers Association which has been continued until she got her advanced level certification.

In 1997, she graduated from high school and continued her education at the Art University of Tehran. At the same time, she started working as a painting and calligraphy teacher in different schools in Tehran. Since the university courses were based on Modern art and also because of her interest in Realistic art, so she attended Iman Maleki’s painting classes to learn classic and realistic painting in 1999.

Before she graduated from Art University in 2001 she utilized every opportunity to attend some art show at the university during her education which all of these could help her to obtain significant achievements by attending some art exhibitions and competitions in Iran and some other countries since 2001.

Because of her interest to teach painting to children, she has founded Daricheh Art Institute in 2007 as the children's art Institute and after five years she expanded the courses by adult painting classes. 

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