Amir Salamat

Amir Salamat was born in Tehran to Maliheh and Hossein Salamat. The youngest of five children, he attended Alborz High School and later Sharif (Arya-Mehr) University in Tehran, where he studied structural engineering. He moved to the US in 1978. He finished his undergraduate in Portland, Oregon and his masters degree in San Diego, California. He moved to San Francisco in 1982 and has lived in bay area ever since with his two children. After working for several engineering firms in the bay area, he started his own firm and has worked on projects such as nickelodeon theme park in Santa Clara, numerous projects for Kaiser Permanente, and many other commercial and residential projects since 1991.

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As Amir was growing up, art, literature and music was always present in Salamat household. He became familiar with and was fascinated by eastern and western art and started painting in oil at the age of 15. Although he experiments in ceramics, but his main body of work (amirsalamat.com) is in mixed media on canvas and board. Amir has had several art shows around US and was involved in the first two Beyond Persia exhibits at Gallery One in San Francisco. Realizing a need for the promotion of the art among Iranian Diaspora he co-founded Beyond Persia with Lale Shahparaki Welsh in 2006 and serves as its President and Art Curator.