About

Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi was born in Tehran in 1937. Laureate of the Paris Biennale in 1961, he settled in Paris that same year, then opened a second studio in New York.

As early as 1957, at the age of twenty, he asserted an artistic stance and conceptual choices of his own, and the singularity of his approach earned him international recognition. His Saqqa Khaneh works (1957 to 1965) gave their name to a movement of which he is the founder and which remains a reference point of the avant-garde. Laureate of the Tehran (1960), Venice (1962) and São Paulo (1963) Biennales, he was championed by critics such as Frank Elgar, Pierre Cabanne and Pierre Restany. In 1963, MoMA acquired K+L+32+H+4, Mon père et moi (My Father and I, 1962). In 1972, a survey of art critics conducted by Connaissance des arts placed him among the ten major living artists, alongside Andy Warhol, Frank Stella and Zao Wou-Ki.