Morteza Asadi is a prominent Iranian painter. After receiving his BFA in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran, he pursued his postgraduate studies in Illustration at the same university. Then, he went to Paris-Sorbonne University to study for a Ph.D. in Art History and Islamic Art Archeology. However, he dropped out of school and returned to Iran to finish his Ph.D. in Art Research at Shahed University. As a designer and painter, Asadi has participated in many group and solo exhibitions in Iran and internationally, including a solo exhibition in the Cité Internationale des Arts; he is the third-prize winner of postage stamp design on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Tokyo and the prizewinner of the Islamic World Painting Biennial. He is a faculty member of the Shahed University of Arts and a member of the Association of Iranian Painters (AIP). He has been the secretary and jury member of numerous art festivals and events, supervisor and advisor of academic dissertations, and has cooperated with academic art publications.