Governor Herbet awards Fahimeh the Governor’s Mansion Artist medal (2018)

Fahimeh with her students at the Salt Lake City library, where she exhibits their artwork each year

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Born in Tehran, Iran, Fahimeh Amiri, became the pupil of the greatest living Persian miniaturist, Professor Hossein Behzad, when she was only in second grade, and continued as his apprentice for eight years. As a teenager, she attended the Tehran School of Fine Art, becoming the first girl to earn the School’s highest honors and receive national awards from Queen Farah and the Ministry of Education.

After moving to the United States in 1973, Fahimeh graduated from Tufts University and the Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts with a degree in Graphic Design, later creating a series of posters for national and international markets. Her books for children include Babri (Gibbs Smith, 1994), which received distinction from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, The Monkey Bridge (Knopf, 1997), exhibited at the Norman Rockwell Museum, and The Prince Who Ran Away (Knopf, 2001).

Once she came to Utah, she created a line of Persian miniatures depicting Iranian women in Islam, exhibited under the title of Passages & Pathways, at the Springville Museum of Art, 2014.

Examples of her art have been exhibited in International Art Expos and the National Arts Club in New York. She is a member of the National Women’s Association of Artists. Every year since 2014, pieces of her work have been selected and exhibited in the two annual juried exhibitions of the Springville Museum of Art in Utah: the Spring Salon and the Spiritual and Religious Art Exhibitions. She has exhibited annually at the Zion's Bank Art Show, receiving Certificates of Recognition, the Utah Governor’s Arts Award in 2018, and the Merit Award in 2020.

In 2021, Fahimeh’s work received the distinction of Utah State’s Alice Merrill Horne Art Collection acquiring two pieces of her work. Another was purchased by the Springville Museum of Art to add to their permanent collection. This museum also currently chose three of Fahimeh’s paintings for its Depictions of Divinity showing in the museum’s 35th Annual Spiritual & Religious Art of Utah juried exhibition.