Salman Khoshroo, born 1983 in Iran, spent his childhood years in New York. After a few intermittent years in Iran he went to study in the Australian National University, where he received his degree in Digital Art. He currently lives and works in his studio in Tehran mainly with a large palette knife spreading oil colours directly on the canvas. Khoshroo’s paintings harness figurative abstraction to evince very concise figures of emotional tension.