Hassan Amekan

Hassan Amekan was born in Astaneh Ashrafieh; he has been working for nine years as illustrator for newspapers and children’s magazines.
He is an illustrator and painter and animator; with more than 15 published children's books. A three volume
collection of children’s stories using his illustrations has also been published in many countries (Korea, Japan, England, USA, India). He is currently working as illustrator with various publishers. His work has also won Awards.

Exposition

• Five Solo exhibitions in Tehran gallery
• Solo exhibitions painting Bahrain 2004
• And more of group exhibition in Iran, Japan, Italy, Slovakia, South Korea, France, Germany, India.

Prizes

• The winner of the Tehran illustration biennial story quran of children’s book grand Prize 2004
• The winner of Tehran illustration children’s book (hoze honari) grand prize 2004
• The winner of Tehran illustration magazine children (rosht) grand prize 2005
• The winner of Tehran illustration children’s book with subject Anderson prize 2005
• The winner of Tehran illustration text second prize 2004, 2005
• The winner of Tehran illustration magazine children all 2004; 2005
• The winner of Tehran illustration of museum art Iran 2006
• The winner of the international illustration noma concourse Japan children’s book 2004
• The winner of the international illustration noma concourse Japan children’s book 2006
• The winner of south Korea the international illustration graphic (taigon) fifth two years 2001, 2002
• The winner of India the international illustration children’s book (chitrakala awards) 2005
• The winner of Italy the international illustration children’s book 2006
• He was selected as one of the 40 word illustration in the 23th Sarmede international fair in Italy in 2005