Nodjoumi paints mostly monumental allegories mixing opaque symbolism and surrealism. His characters range from Mullahs in turbans and flowing robes to Western bureaucrats in ill fitting suits. His medium is mostly acrylic on canvas and gouache on paper.

Nicky Nodjoumi was born in Teheran, Iran in 1942. He studied art at the Teheran University of Fine Arts (BA) From 1963-67. He also studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1971-72) and got his MFA at the City College in New York (1972-74). He works and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Nodjoumi was in Teheran during the time of the Islamic Revolution of 1979. He had a retrospective exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum in Teheran in 1980 but once the goverment of Iran changed, Nodjoumi departed for the US. He left a large number of canvases in Iran. They have since disappeared.

After his arrival in the West, Nodjoumi had a large number of individual and group exhibition from Basel, Switzerland and London, England, to many galleries in New York.

Sources:
Compiled from press clippings anf gallery information by Pavel Cerny.