Sedaghat Jabbari

Sedaghat Jabbari was born in Ardabil, Iran, in 1961. He earned a bachelor's degree in graphics from the University of Tehran, a master's degree in graphics from Tarbiat Modares University in 1988, and a PhD in art research from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran, completed between 2002 and 2008. He has worked as a painter and calligrapher and has taught graphic design, and university records describe him as continuing in that academic role.

His practice is built on Persian calligraphy transformed into painting, with large-scale compositions that treat script as abstract form. ArtChart, the only source located for either claim, states that a calligraphy work won the grand prize and gold medal at the 12th Bangladesh International Biennale in 2006 and that he took part in the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009; neither claim is independently corroborated in other sources. He has also shown more recently at Mojdeh Art Gallery, including an exhibition referenced as Trace of Imagination in December 2023. Public sources describe him only in the present tense and do not report any death, so he is treated here as a living artist as of this profile's date.

Independent, attributable critical commentary on Jabbari's work is limited in the available public record. He is discussed in market and biographical databases primarily in terms of his reported biennial participation and academic training rather than through extended critical essays, and no verbatim, sourced quotation from a named critic in a major outlet could be confirmed. His reported inclusion in the 53rd Venice Biennale and his reported grand prize at the Bangladesh International Biennale are cited only by a single source and stand as unconfirmed rather than clearly established markers of institutional recognition for his calligraphic painting practice.

Jabbari's auction market is thin relative to the biennial recognition reported for him. Artprice records roughly thirty public auction appearances for him, almost all paintings, spread across international houses including Christie's, Bonhams, and Tehran Auction. Bonhams offered a work titled Calligraphic Forms with a pre-sale estimate of GBP 20,000 to 30,000; the realized price is not confirmed in available sources. The clearest documented result identified in research is a work titled From A Hidden Secret Series, which sold for USD 65,571, above its USD 36,411 to 52,092 estimate, at the 17th Tehran Auction on 21 July 2023. Available sources could not establish a verified, ranked all-time auction record for the artist, so collectors should not treat any single figure, including this one, as a confirmed record.

Public sources do not confirm any current gallery or estate representation for Jabbari, and no specific museum collection holding his work could be verified in research; a Mojdeh Art Gallery listing references the artist but does not by itself establish ongoing representation. There is no catalogue raisonne, so attribution and condition should be confirmed directly through the selling auction house for any specific lot. Given the small number of recorded sales and the gaps in publicly available sale-by-sale detail, collectors should treat any single price point, including the USD 65,571 Tehran Auction result cited above, as indicative rather than a confirmed record, and verify current details before transacting.