Homayoun Salimi was born in 1948, in Tehran.[1] He received his earliest art education at the Mirak Tabrizi Conservatory and later travelled to France to further his studies. In 1978 he obtained a Diploma of Higher Education With Rocheron Prise, at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and in 1982 he obtained a master's degree of aesthetics and sciences of art from the Sorbonne and in 1990, he obtained his Ph.D., also in aesthetics and sciences of art, from Sorbonne.[2]
Salimi and his contemporary, Habib Ayatollahi, are the only examples of artists working in geometric abstract,[3] and is considered as one of the foremost exponents of the geometric abstract style in Iran.[4]
