Marcos Grigorian was an Iranian-Armenian artist and a pioneer of Iranian modern art who was born on December 5th, 1925, and died on August 27th, 2007. Marcos fled from Russia to Iran, to escape massacres. When he finished pre-university in 1950, he studied in art in Rome. In 1854, he graduated and moved back to Iran, and opened a gallery called Galerie Esthétique. In 1958 he opened the first multimedia art exhibition. On the side, Marcos also worked as a teacher in the Fine Arts Academy. In 1975 Marcos alongside Massoud Arabshahi, Morteza Momayez, Mir Abdolreza Daryabeigi, Gholamhossein Nami, and Faramarz Pilaram, they organized a group of free painters.Marcos then started to turn towards ethnic approaches, and natural objects when doing art.
