Asghar Kafshchian Moghadam, an artist, painter, designer, cartoonist, researcher in the field of visual arts, including cartoons and caricatures, and one of the founders of the Kasni Cartoon Group, and instructor at Fine Art college of Tehran University passed away due to the side effects of coronavirus on October 11, 2021.
Kafshchian, Mohammad-Hossein Niroomand, and Massoud Shojaei Tabatabaei founded Kasni Cartoon Group in 1983, which was supported by Jahad university. His caricature books had been published and his caricatures also had been published in national and international papres or magazins.
Director of the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Faculty of Visual Arts of Tehran university, author of numerous articles in the field of visual arts and modern art that were published in cultural and artistic publications, secretary of the third and fourth Tehran New Art Exhibition, membership of jury boards in several exhibitions and festivals and participation in numerous national and international art exhibitions are among the other activities of this artist.