Reza Karimi is an Iranian born painter/artist living in New York.Karimi was born in Isfahan, Iran on Aug 23 1946. Emigrated to New York in 1969 (US Citizen). He attended Queens College, 1974 & Brooklyn College, 1978.He originally started working with watercolor paintings based on his childhood in Isfahan, but moved onto paintings of the New York area. In more recent years, he has moved on to more oil-based paintings of a political bent, reflecting on the political turbulence of Iran, including the trial of Mossadegh and the treatment of women in Iran.