Born in 1976 in Shiraz, a town to the southwest of Iran, Raoof Haghighi grew up in a family of artists. He is a self-taught versatile artist who has participated in over 70 groups and 40 solo shows in the United States, France, Iran, Spain, the Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom.
His paintings are mostly oil on canvas and built upon his strong cultural traditions as well as his interest in the changing world of today. His work often combines contemporary ideas with traditional techniques. In his paintings, he has quite often questioned the attitudes, fears, conflicts, incompatibilities, and unwritten rules which have formed our environment and our behavior within it.
Haghighi was already a celebrated creator in Iran before moving to the UK. Though, throughout the primary number of years in London, he had to form an excellent deal of changes to cope and grow familiar with the new culture and language. With the conflicts that these challenges led to in his mind, he found that painting was the most effective way to speak to others efficiently.
Raoof’s paintings are in varied personal collections worldwide notably in Spain, China, Denmark, Thailand, France, the United Kingdom, and the USA. In 2017, he was crowned the winner of the Gold Memorial Bowl award for best miniature work appointive by the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, winner of The Mundy Sovereign Portrait Award 2019 (Royal Society of Miniature Painters), and also the winner of two awards for best pure colored pencil and nice art award for the best different subject at Annual UK colored Pencil Society Open International Exhibition.