Aliakbar Sadeghi was born in 1937 in Tehran. He showed his interest in painting since he was 5 years old, and then started painting in a more serious way at Jam High School. In 1958, he entered the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tehran University.

During high school, Sadeghi learned watercolor painting under the supervision of Avak Hiraptian. During this period, in addition to painting, he was also active in the field of painting stage sets and grim for school plays, and during his university years, he was able to invent a new style of vitrai painting with an Iranian atmosphere.

Sadeghi started his career as a professional painter very soon; He seriously established himself as a professional artist by painting movie posters, movie placards and advertising works. In the 70s, he collaborated with the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, which resulted in the production of several short animations; Aliakbar Sadeghi, in the continuation of his professional activity, also tried gallery management and was in charge of the Green Gallery in Tehran for a while. He also has experiences in areas such as design and packaging and book cover design.

He has received more than 15 international awards for animation and 4 international awards for book illustration. The first prize of book illustrators of Asia in 1978 for the book "Worship is not thought", the first prize of the Leipzig festival in 1980 for "the most beautiful book of victory" and the first prize of graphics for the best book illustration of Tehran in 1988, are among the most important awards that Ali Akbar Sadeghi has received. He has participated in many domestic and foreign exhibitions and has been able to publish 7 books of his collection of writings.

Aliakbar Sadeghi is considered a prominent figure in Iranian art due to his diverse experience in different artistic techniques. He has experimented with many artistic mediums from vitrai and watercolor to animation and printmaking. Most of Sadeghi's works have a surreal atmosphere with humor. In fact, it can be said that his style of work is a type of Iranian surrealism, which is based on the traditional and coffeehouse painting style. In addition, various references to Iranian stories and legends such as the Shahnameh are also evident in these works. In many of Sadeghi's first experiences, the presence of one or more warriors wearing the costumes of ancient Iranian warriors is clearly evident. Some of these fighters have the face of Aliakbar Sadeghi himself.

He says: "Legends have always been new to me. At first glance, they might consider me as an illustrator of legends, but this is not the whole story. I have used heroes and legends as  sample to talk about my own time. Let me talk about the human being who still lives on the Earth as if nothing has changed, from the time of Cain who killed Abel unjustly with a broken stone, until today when that broken stone has become the arsenal of fighting and regrets that the oppressor man still punishes his innocent brother."