| Massumeh Noushin Seyhoun | |
| Native Name: | Persian: منیر نوشین |
| Birth Name: | Monir Noushin |
| Birth Place: | Rasht, Gilan Province, Iran |
| Death Place: | Tehran, Iran |
| Education: | Faculty of Fine Arts, Tehran |
| Occupation: | Gallerist, curator, visual artist |
| Known For: | Painting |
| Children: | 2 |
Massumeh Noushin Seyhoun, Professionally known as Massumeh Seyhoun, (Persian: معصومه سیحون;1934–21 May, 2010), née Monir Noushin (Persian: منیر نوشین) was an Iranian painter, curator, and gallerist. She was the founder (1966) of Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran, the longest-lived art gallery in Iran.[1]
Massumeh Seyhoun was born in 1934 in Rasht, her birth name was Monir Noushin.[2] Later her family settled in Ahvaz. She had changed her name to Massumeh. She studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Tehran, where her teacher was Hooshang Seyhoun, architect, sculptor, painter, who in several years had become her husband. They had two children, a son Nader and a daughter Maryam.[3] [4]
When Seyhoun's health started failing in the mid-1990s, she passed control of the gallery to her son Nader. Her daughter, Maryam, opened the Seyhoun Gallery, Los Angeles, on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood, an outpost of the Tehran gallery in the United States.[5] The gallery exhibits Iranian expatriate artists and artists based in Iran, many of whom have worked with the Seyhoun Gallery in Tehran.[6]
In 1966, Masoumeh Seyhoun, with the help of her, Hooshang Seyhoun, founded Seyhoun Gallery. Seyhoun Gallery is one of Iran's first art galleries and is considered the oldest active art gallery in the country. [7] [8]
Since its inception, Seyhoun Gallery has presented over 1500 exhibitions of contemporary works by emerging Iranian artists, including the works of artists who later achieved national fame, such as Jazeh Tabatabai, Sohrab Sepehri, Massoud Arabshahi, Hossein Zenderoudi, Reza Mafi, Mokarrameh Ghanbari, and Alireza Espahbod.