Biography

Born in 1973 in Mashhad, Iran, Ahmad Morshedloo lives and works in Tehran and is celebrated as one of Iran’s most unique social painters. Inspired by and focused on the fast changing social issues around him, the social upheavals directly affect his works. Throughout his career as a social painter, Morshedloo has always emphasized modern man’s social and intellectual alienation as a result of his contemporary living conditions. Morshedloo believes that his art should carry a message and that being contemporary to him is about alertness and observation.