Faramarz Pilaram

Faramarz Pilaram (; 1937–1983, or 1982) was an Iranian painter and educator. He is known for his abstract, and calligraphy-based modern paintings. Pilaram was a pioneer within the Saqqakhaneh school, a neo-traditionalist art movement. There were three major periods in his artistic career: figurative, decorative and calligraphic.

In 1974, Pilaram married his cousin Homa Darrati and had three children.

Pilaram played a pivotal role in the establishment of Iran Gallery (Tālār-e Iran, later Talar-e Ghandriz) in Tehran, founded in 1964 by Pilaram, Mansoor Ghandriz, Ruyin Pakbaz, Sadegh Tabrizi, Mohammad-Reza Jodat, Ghobad Shiva, Massoud Arabshahi, Sirus Malek, Farshid Mesghali, Parviz Mahallati, Morteza Momayez, and Hadi Hezareiy.

He was a founding member of the Independent Artists Group in Tehran, led by Marcos Grigorian.

Pilaram participated in the third and fourth Tehran Biennial. From 1972 to 1980, he taught design classes in the Faculty of Architecture at Iran University of Science and Technology.

Death and legacy In 1983, he died of a heart attack in Maḥmudabad, Mazandaran Province. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Grey Art Gallery at NYU.

In 2006, Pilaram had a posthumous retrospective exhibition at Gallery 66 in Tehran.