Biography

Nikzad Nodjoumi, more commonly known as Nicky Nodjoumi (born 1942) is an Iranian-born American fine art painter. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His paintings address Iranian politics, history, power and corruption. Nikzad Nodjoumi was born in 1942 in Kermanshah, Iran. In 1961, he studied Fine Arts at the School of Fine Art at Tehran University and in 1969 studied English at The New School in New York. In 1969, he came to the United States initially to have surgery in the Bronx for a congenital heart defect. He married artist, Nahid Hagigat in 1973. In 1974, he received his Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the City College of New York.