Born in 1940 in Hamadan, he graduated in 1966 from the faculty of Fine Arts (Painting Section) of the University of Tehran.

He then spent Several years acquiring practical experience in graphic art before earning a master's degree from Pratt University, New York, in 1980.

There after, creating original works over several decades, he achieved a graphic art with an Iranian flavor, which indeed prompted museums and collectors across the world to add his works to their collections.
His secondary activities included the establishment of graphic art sections for the Iranian Radio and Television in 1968 and for Soroush Publishers in 1971. He was also one of the cofounders of the Iranian Graphic Designer Society “IGDS”, an artistic adviser and jury member of the Iranian Graphic Art Biennials, and the founder and planner of the First Tehran International Poster Biennial.

He has also been teaching in eminent art faculties in Tehran since 1976. All along his schooling years and professional career, he has held exhibitions of paintings, photographs and particularly, graphic works in Iran and abroad, notably in England, France and the United States, His works have been repeatedly selected and reproduced in international graphic art periodicals and specialized books.

He is a member of the Society of Alliance Graphique Internationale “AGI” and is presently busy directing his own institution, offering artistic management and advisory services, as well as designing environmental projects and exhibition areas.