Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar is a French – Iranian artist. Born in Paris in 1984, he lived in Tehran, Iran as a teenager and young adult. Many of his works are well-known for exploring his visionary and philosophical views on life and humanity, derived from the artist’s personal life experience of post-revolution Iran, including the Iran-Iraq war, a traumatic period in the history of the country; and his subsequent reflections on these experiences while living in France and elsewhere.

Behnam-Bakhtiar’s oil paintings are created in his signature style of peinture raclée involving an intricate style of scraping, relaying and spreading of numerous blends over particular points.

For the artist, these represent layers of energy, feelings and time. He paints from one layer to another for several months to years to create his complex works referencing to a prosperous way of life, human evolution, the universal language, eternal feelings and Self, history, present and future, awakening a strong sense of experiencing positive emotions and transcendence, while accessing its audience’s psyche to bring about locked knowledge, intuition and human sensitivity.

Sassan’s most recent body of oil paintings have been shown worldwide including solo exhibitions at Phillips London, Sotheby’s in the Principality of Monaco, Dusseldorf’s Setareh Gallery, London’s Saatchi Gallery and at the historic Villa Santo Sospir in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat.

Behnam-Bakhtiar’s works are part of notable private collections internationally.

Sassan is currently based in the South of France where he continues to pursue his chosen disciplines.

Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar is a French – Iranian artist. Born in Paris in 1984, he lived in Tehran, Iran as a teenager and young adult. Many of his works are well-known for exploring his visionary and philosophical views on life and humanity, derived from the artist’s personal life experience of post-revolution Iran, including the Iran-Iraq war, a traumatic period in the history of the country; and his subsequent reflections on these experiences while living in France and elsewhere.

Behnam-Bakhtiar’s oil paintings are created in his signature style of peinture raclée involving an intricate style of scraping, relaying and spreading of numerous blends over particular points.

For the artist, these represent layers of energy, feelings and time. He paints from one layer to another for several months to years to create his complex works referencing to a prosperous way of life, human evolution, the universal language, eternal feelings and Self, history, present and future, awakening a strong sense of experiencing positive emotions and transcendence, while accessing its audience’s psyche to bring about locked knowledge, intuition and human sensitivity.

Sassan’s most recent body of oil paintings have been shown worldwide including solo exhibitions at Phillips London, Sotheby’s in the Principality of Monaco, Dusseldorf’s Setareh Gallery, London’s Saatchi Gallery and at the historic Villa Santo Sospir in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat.

Projects

2022

Manifest
The Journey
Journey Within

Study

Collection (selection)

Mairie of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, FR
Santo Sospir, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, FR
Collection of HRH Sheikha Muneera Bint Ahmed AlKhalifa
Collection of HRH Sheikha Hessa Bint Ahmed AlKhalifa
Collection of Yevgeniy and Gulnara Feld
Collection of Andrea Morante
Collection of Farhad Bakhtiar
Collection of Ilia Melia
Collection of Ali Jassim
Collection of Lady Frederick Windsor
Collection of Eric Underwood
Collection of Gabriela Mendoza
Collection of Andrey Klinovskiy
Collection of Mohammed Afkhami
Collection of Danièle De Picciotto
Collection of Tinie Tempah
Collection of Boris Collardi
Collection of Bret Desmond
Collection of Modern Forms
Collection of Ashley Walters
Collection of Jorja Smith 

Publication (selection)

Rebirth
Essay by Nick Hackworth
Town Hall of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat

Extremis
Essay by Felix Fischer
Setareh

​Oneness Wholeness
Essay by Edward Lucie Smith
Unicorn Publishing
Saatchi Gallery

​Future & Memory / Memory & Future
Essays by Lisa Pollman, Janet Rady and Joobin Bekhrad
Shirin Gallery