Amin Tehrani (b. 1999, Tehran) is an emerging Iranian painter whose practice interrogates landscape as a site of psychological and temporal ambiguity. A graduate of Tehran School of Fine Art, he rejected conventional academia, citing inadequate pedagogical alignment with his artistic vision, choosing instead to develop his practice independently. His introspective approach involves working in "self-imposed isolation", where he diligently records complex thoughts on paper and canvas.

Tehrani’s work subverts traditional landscape painting—a genre historically confined to background status until the 17th century. Drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophy, he frames landscape as depicting emptiness and loss, specifically exploring distancing and une perte de vue (loss of sight), (Nancy, 2005). His paintings reject realism, instead evoking personal snapshots, collective memory, and dreams through fog-obscured horizons, impressionistic colour fields, and gestural snowstorm[s] of markations. These techniques dissolve geographical specificity to examine contemporary urban experience under late capitalism, particularly the figure of the flâneur navigating unreachable borderlines.

His work synthesises contradictory sensibilities: the "grandeur and sorrow" (Persian text) found in Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro and Dostoevsky’s literary intensity. This manifests in compositions balancing "intimacy and silence" (PDF) with visceral emotionality. For his 2024 exhibition Borderline at Azad Gallery, Tehrani collaborated with a composer to create an original ambient-electronic soundtrack. This interdisciplinary dialogue fused acoustic instruments (piano, cello) with electronic textures, responding directly to his painted "concepts and sketches" (Persian text).

His recent exhibitions include, Borderline (Azad Gallery, Tehran, 2024), Hero (Dastan: Outside, 2024), Nigh /Agreement (Azad Gallery, Tehran, 2022), Parenthesis (Nian Gallery, 2021), Me (Emrooz Gallery, Isfahan & Kabood Atelier, Tabriz, 2019-2020), Persons (Hamras Gallery, Tehran, 2019).