Raoof Haghighi

Raoof Haghighi is an Iranian-born British artist, known for his portraiture and realism.

He was born in 1976 in Shiraz, Iran. His father was an artist and it was in Iran where he started to learn painting;

Awards 2011, 2015, 2017 – BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, England 2016 – Overall winner of Jackson's competition 'Drawn in competition', Jackson Art Supplies, London, England 2014 – Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2014 London Heat winner 2011 – Overall winner – Artist of the Year 2011 – Artists & Illustrators magazine

Exhibitions Prague City Gallery – The Stone Bell House The Reunion of Poetry and Philosophy 3 March – 4 April 2018 BP Portrait Award 2017 – The National Portrait Gallery, London – 22 June – 24 September 2017 Royal Society of Miniature Painters. 20 September – 1 October 2017 at Mall Galleries, London. BP Portrait Award 2011 National Portrait Gallery, London – Wolverhampton Art Gallery