| Javad Hamidi | |
| Birth Date: | 1918 |
| Birth Place: | Hamadan, Qajar Iran |
| Death Place: | Tehran, Iran |
| Education: | Beaux-Arts de Paris |
| Alma Mater: | University of Tehran |
| Occupation: | Visual artist, educator |
| Movement: | Modernism |
Javad Hamidi (1918 – 2002)[1] was an Iranian Modernist painter, poet, and educator. He was a pioneer in modern art in Iran.[2]
Javad Hamidi was born in 1918 in Hamadan, Qajar Iran. Hamidi studied in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tehran University (now University of Tehran), and graduated in 1946; and at Beaux-Arts de Paris.[3] His classmate was Shokouh Riazi, who studied alongside him in both Tehran and in Paris.[4] He continued his studies under French painter André Lhote.
Hamidi had been a founding member of the "Fighting Cock Society" (Khorūs-e Jangi), an artists group in Iran dedicated to the modern art movement and surrealism.[5] Hamidi taught painting in Tehran University for almost 40 years, as well as taught at Al-Zahra, Azad and Tarbiat-Modares Universities.
He was killed by a speeding motorcyclist in Tehran in 2002.