Vahid Chamani, a contemporary painter, was born in Tehran. He is known for his famous paintings that put the names of amino acids on their characters. Chamani studied art until 2000 at the Tehran Academy of Fine Arts. Then he entered Soureh University and continued his painting course in this university. Chamani's first solo exhibition was held at Tehran Art Gallery in 2005. In 2006, he participated in a group exhibition at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. Chamani's first international experiences occurred in 2008 at the Kenos Gallery in New York and the Royal College of Art in London. A year after holding these two group exhibitions, he held his first foreign solo exhibition in the canvas gallery in New York. He has exhibited his works individually in galleries such as Lazaro and Paris International Art Center.
Vahid Chamani was selected for the 4th biennial painting of the Islamic world in 2005. A year later, he won the Young Art Festival's special award. In 2007, he was selected as the selected artist of the 7th Biennial Iranian Painting. One of his international achievements is winning the title of selected artist from the "Art Bridge" event in Washington.
Chamani's paintings have a dreamy and phantasmagorical mood. With a minimalistic approach to the figure, he creates unique characters as if the faces' parts and limbs have melted and are on the verge of disappearing. In the early stages of his career, he used to deface, distort, or remove some of the components of single faces, thus giving his subject a traumatic state: Faces without lips or empty and black eyes. But little by little, this feature left his works; single faces gave way to whole human bodies. In recent years, body-shaped spaces inspired by Iranian architecture have been added to the background of his figures. The use of color options such as turquoise (limited) and brown (in the form of color and spatial ranges), Qajar clothes of the characters (such as Qajar hats or women's clothes of that period) and the spatial coordinates of the panels, which are a ghost of Iranian architecture, give a local flavor to Chamani's artworks and have vague references to the political and social history of Iran.
The first appearance of Vahid Chamani's artworks in auctions dates back to October 2010 at Christie's auction house. Until 2021, his works have appeared in domestic auctions 6 times, and 100% of his works have been sold.