Born in 1967 in Isfahan, Iran, Majid Koorang Beheshti received his Bachelor of Arts in Painting from Tehran’s Azad University. He has exhibited individually throughout Iran since 1998 and in collective exhibitions in Iran, the United States, Italy, France, the United Kingdom and Germany since 2004, most notably with the exhibition ‘Persian Visions, Contemporary Photography from Iran’ which toured the United States. In 1999, he was chosen the Selected Painter in the ‘Dialogue Among Civilizations International Contest’, won Best Photo Exhibition of the Year in 2000, and his series ‘Cubic Pathways’ was selected as the Best Collection in Creative Photography of the 10th Biennale of Iranian Photography in 2006. 

  

 In Beheshti’s 2007 series, ‘Cubic Pathways’, the stark crispness of monochrome constructions, angular or often curved and offset with bold ebony-shadowed areas and clean lines in repeated sequences, create foreign landscapes reminiscent of Bauhaus and, at times, Surrealist sensibilities. The structures are devoid of their original purpose, allowing the form and line of each segment to stand out and create a new meaning for the viewer.