Saman Kalantari
He got his B.A. in foreign language from Azad university in 1994. Saman started working as a ceramic artist in 1992 and has participated in several exhibitions both single and group shows. He fled his country in 2004 and since then has been living in Italy as a political refugee. In 2005 he began a two-year course at Vetroricerca Glas & Modern in Bolzano and discovered a new medium: “Glass” which was the right material to describe his social and political experiences of life both in Iran and in Europe. In 2007 he got his diploma and since then lives as a part-time glass artist. He won the Bullseye “newcomer award from E -merge 2008 in the United States. Glasshouse, an international glass studio, published an article on Saman’s glasswork in 2009 (glashaus 3/2009).