Hesam Fetrati

He also has several experiences in curating group shows and conducting academic art research. The issue of immigration is one of the main subjects realised in his works. The book, Every Artist has the Right to Portray the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a selection of his illustrations published by Mahriz in 2009.

After finishing high school, Fetrati completed his bachelor's degree in visual communications and graphic design in Tehran and established his own studio in the early 2000s. During this decade, he worked as a cartoonist and illustrator in Tehran at reformist newspapers and magazines such as Etemad-e Melli, Pou’l, and Tanz-o Caricature. His editorial cartoons in this era are mostly a reflection of the time's political and societal issues with bitter, symbolic, and metaphorical language.

Hesam migrated to Australia in the late 2000s to pursue, and successfully complete, a master's degree and a PhD at Griffith University awarding him two highly competitive scholarships. Fetrati's migration occurred at the same time as the Syrian crisis which had a profound effect on his work due to the forced migration of the many war victims. In four of his collections, Blindness, Severed Roots, There is No North Point and Anticipation, Hesam deals with the issue of migration, aspirations, and hardships. Fetrati spent most of the mid-2010s doing research and academic practice, dedicating part of his doctoral dissertation to researching immigrants and how they adjust to their host community.

Hesam Fetrati (Persian: حسام فطرتى; born May 6, 1981 in Shemiran) is an Iranian designer, painter, cartoonist, and conceptual artist.