Parivash Ganji is a painter and art instructor who was born in Tabriz. She has followed various trends in different periods; In Ganji's paintings, a trace from Sumi-e to Fauvism can be recognized.
She learned the basics of painting at the Behzad Girls' Fine Arts Academy, under the supervision of Reza Forouzi and Mahmoud Farshchian. She left for England to continue her education and in 1968 she was trained at St. Martin's Art School, John Cass Art School in London and then studied painting at the Chelsea Art School in london. After that she went to France and took free classes of beaux art de france. After going back to Iran, she began teaching in academia in the mid-1980s. She received a UNESCO Comparative Research Fellowship in the 1990s and left for Japan to study Oriental art traditions. In this opportunity, she studied the influence of Iranian motifs, particularly the Sassanid dynasty on Japanese kimonos. She is currently the Cultural Representative of the Japan Foundation in Iran. After her return to Iran, she collaborated with the Center for the Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescents for a short period, and then taught fabric design and printing at Iran University of Arts and Al-Zahra University.
Ganji has tended to abstract and expressionist styles in different periods. The collection "Water" is one of her most significant periods of her career, which is considered in between expressionism and lyrical abstraction. The mass of emotional brushstrokes in these works are vaguely figurative evoking the leaves of trees, the waves of the sea, or the particles scattered in the air by the storm. The speed with which these brushstrokes are performed and their seemingly spontaneous and uncontrollable essence evoke the impressive effect of a behavioral action painting with a very dynamic and roaring rhythm.
Said Pakbaz about this type of Ganji’s works: "In the oscillation between representation and abstraction, she has always used color as an expressive and lyrical element". Her works initially tended to this style due to the her acquaintance with expressionist currents, but after her trip to Japan, a trace of Eastern traditions, and particularly the Sumi-e appeared in her works; A method inspired by the Zen doctrine which is performed by using ink without adding any color. "When I came back from Japan, I worked for a while following the traditional Japanese ink painting method, and then I got involved in roaring water for a while," Ganji said. After that, I gradually became interested in monochrome works, and my works no longer had different colors, but only blue in my work, which was influenced by the conditions of society. "After that, I turned once more to the red and black colors as the community changed, and I gradually started to set up the windows collection."
Parivash Ganji's first appearance in auctions dates back to December 2016 at the Tehran Auction House. Until 2021, her works have been presented in domestic and foreign auctions 3 times and all her works have been hammered in the auctions. Until 2021 her most expensive work has been hammered at the 6th Tehran Auction for $16,209 in January.