Avish Khebrezadeh is an Iranian designer, painter, filmmaker, and animator. After an experience in expressionist painting, Khebrezadeh has turned to design since the mid-1990s.
She completed the first course of university education in mathematics at Tehran Azad University. At the same time, she pursued painting outside the academic environment and was one of the students of Parvaneh Etemadi. She went to Italy in 1993 and studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. After finishing her course in 1996, she went to the United States to continue her art studies in photography at the Corcoran College of Art in Washington. She also took a photography course at Columbia State University, Washington. After that, she settled outside Iran and continued her artistic life in Washington and Rome. Between 1990 and 1992, Khebrezadeh exhibited her works in several group exhibitions held in Tehran's Seyhoun Gallery. Her first solo exhibition was in the S.A.L.E.S gallery in Rome in 1996. Her second solo show was at Barbieri Contemporary Art Studio, Venice, two years later. Since then, in addition to Italy, she has exhibited her works in the galleries of different countries, such as the United States, England, Japan, and Germany. In 2003, Khebrezadeh won the Golden Lion "Best Young Italian Artist" at the 50th Venice Biennale. In 2016, Abanbar Gallery exhibited a collection of works from different periods of Khebrezadeh's artwork under the title "Memories."
After completing an expressive painting course, she began her figurative drawings. In this series of works, she depicts designs of humans and animals using thin lines on the surface of large-sized rice papers (often covered with a layer of olive oil and resin). Her people have their mouths closed, but as if they are having a silent conversation between themselves and with the animals and the environment. Her motifs, such as humans, animals, and nature, have a dream-like and ritualistic relationship with each other. A quality emphasized by the formal behavior of Khebrezadeh with simple and spontaneous lines and aura colors. She portrays her simple yet poetic emotions in her animated films as well.