Amir Rad was born in 1976 in Tehran. He received his bachelor's degree in painting from Tehran Azad University and graduated from Tehran university of art with a master's degree in painting.

In addition to painting, Amir Rad is active in new art fields such as video art, web art, performance and animations. He held his first solo exhibition called "Sixteen Years" in 2003 at Aria Gallery. Rad has also been active in the field of research and teaching in universities and more than 70 articles and essays have been published in art magazines. Amir Rad contributed in the first specialized festival in the field of performance titled "International Radical Performance Festival". In addition, he was the curator of "30 performances, 30 artists, 30 days" and "Persona" in a contemporary art museum in Tehran.

Amir Rad's works, apart from his performances, can be placed in two general categories: painting and video art. His paintings are figurative and the type of coloring, the shape of the shadows and the outward look of the figures show the human feelings inside the painting. But his video art works are trying to communicate between this contemporary medium and Iranian culture. Amir Rad's video-installation called "Shahr Farang" is an old device in which a video with Persian film is played. In another video-installation named "24 Hour Ganj-e Qarun ", inspired by the video art "24 Hour Psycho" by Douglas Gordon (1993), Amir Rad displays the film "Ganj-e Qarun" on a sandy bed for 24 hours to refer to the cinema. and redefines video art. In this work, sand refers to a broken hourglass and its relationship with time is transitory and repetitive.