
Darvish Fakhr
The Alchemist (Nowruz), 2025
Print on Paper
59 x 43 cm
Darvish Fakhr
The First Dance, 2025
Oil on Linen
60 x 60 cm
Darvish Fakhr
The Honeymooners II, 2025
Oil on Linen
80 x 80 cm
Darvish Fakhr
Elopers, 2025
Oil on Linen
70 x 70 cm
Darvish Fakhr
The Honeymooners I, 2025
Oil on Linen
152 x 81 cm
Darvish Fakhr
Seesaw, 2025
Oil on Linen
80 x 100 cm
Darvish Fakhr
Overpass, 2025
Oil on Linen
80 x 80 cm
Darvish Fakhr
Drifters, 2025
Oil on Linen
80 x 100 cm
Darvish Fakhr
WHOLE THING, 2023
Oil on Board
20 x 30 cm
Darvish Fakhr
Find me, 2023
Oil on Board
18 x 24 cm
Darvish Fakhr
TEACHER (SELF PORT.), 2023
Oil on Linen
60 x 60 cm
Darvish Fakhr
Uniquely the Same, 2023
Oil On Board
44 x 44 cm
Darvish Fakhr
Thermals TBV, 2022
Oil on Linen
2m x 3m
Darvish Fakhr
The Wound, 2022
Oil on Board
40 x 40 cm
Darvish Fakhr
Cool to Be Kind, 2022
Oil on Board
60 x 80 cm
Darvish Fakhr
Not Your Land, 2022
Charcoal
100 x 140 cm
Darvish Fakhr is a half-Iranian, half-American artist whose work ranges from painting to movement art. In his practice, he amalgamates disparate cultures by overlaying various concepts and aesthetics through interference, which can take the form of movement, paint, or text. Throughout all his work, he fuses Western techniques with Eastern philosophies, such as incorporating Persian poetry into oil paintings or converting a skateboard into a flying carpet.
He calls his movement art “gentle civic disruptions,” inspired by the practice and image of the whirling dervish. In these works, much like the interference found in his paintings, he cross-pollinates aspects of his Iranian heritage with his Western upbringing. He challenges preconceptions by mocking stereotypes through humor and invention and uses lightness and concepts of flying as metaphors for accessing ideas of freedom.
He has exhibited and performed internationally, included at The Armory Show in New York, and is in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London. He currently lives and works in Brighton, UK.