Having lived and worked on three continents, artist/architect Jam Koramshai has earned an international reputation.

For Jam, architecture and visual art have always been complementary; and this is obvious when one examines his  body of work.  Today, concentrating  predominantly on the visual arts, he uses many different media; including acrylic, oil, charcoal and oil pastel ink.

Jam’s current work explores mixtures of calligraphy, letters, and the relationship between the universality of language and art. His creations combine  multiple sources, employing  words and phrases from his principal spoken languages – Persian, English and Portuguese.  Jam’s new body of work combines a series of unintelligible writing and the calligraphic style;  with mixed languages representing the struggle in communication between political and religious power.

His work espouses his experience as a political activist in both Iran in 1970s, and Brazil during the military dictatorship. Through his art, he invites the viewer to contemplate how political regimes and religions can simultaneously be different yet similar.

Jam started his carrier in Tehran as a cartoonist for a satire magazine. He subsequently moved to Brazil to continue his studies in the  Faculty of Architecture and the Institute of Arts at the University of Brasilia.   In 1996 Jam relocated to the UK, completing  his postgraduate study in London at the Westminster University, and becoming a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). 

In 2020 he made his home in Lisbon, where he lives today and studied at the city’s Arco-Centro de Arte.