Behzad Shishegaran, painter, designer, graphic designer, teacher and social promoter of art was born in 1953 in Tehran in an immigrant family. Shishegaran had an industrialist father and in his shadow he got to know many technical and industrial details and subtleties, although it was because of his older brother Koorosh Shishegaran, that he got to know the world of art more widely.

Behzad Shishegaran studied at the Tehran Academy of Fine Arts under the tutelage of artists such as Mohammad Ebrahim Jafari, Ali Qahari and Mahmoud Farshchian, and after receiving his diploma and ending his military service, he studied directing for two years at the Youth Cinema Association. In the midst of the revolution, that is, in 1979, Shishegaran entered the Faculty of Decorative Arts (now called the University of Art) and studied graphic design, and made political posters that had already appeared in his artistic work and then continued creating posters until 1982. Being exposed to the events of the revolution, and the cultural revolution which had led to the two-year closure of universities and his one-year suspension from the university, caused his university education to be prolonged until 1987.

After the Iran-Iraq war and the resumption of gallery activities, Shishegaran held his first solo exhibition with the theme of portraits of Gholamreza Takhti in 1989. An exhibition that will be held in "Nashreh Noghreh" under the management of filmmaker Mohammad Reza Aslani and his researcher wife Soudabeh Fadaeli. His next exhibition  was held in Seyhoun Gallery in 1990 with the theme of reading and writing. In the same year, he also held an exhibition in Vahdat Hall in response to the Rudbar earthquake.

Returning to Shishegaran's experiences, one can see the influence of his studies in the field of Graphics throughout his professional life. The design and painting of more than 700 portraits of cultural, artistic and political figures of Iran and the world, as well as the design of dozens of cultural, social and political posters, many of which were originally commissioned by the artist himself, are among the proofs that confirm this claim.

However, the artistic activity of Shishegaran does not end there, and the sequence of his continuous efforts should be traced in the field of painting, which has always fluctuated from abstraction to realism and vice versa.

Setting up 32 individual exhibitions and participating in several internal group exhibitions, teaching, authoring and performing activities, teaching design, painting and graphics since 1976, authoring the first and second volumes of the book "One Hundred Portraits of Jahan Pahlavan Takhti" in 1998 and 2014, respectively, membership in the Board of Directors of the Iranian Painters Association from 2009 to 2010, and publishing works in popular domestic and foreign publications are some of the activities of this artist.

In 1991, Shishegaran won the prize of the first Biennial of Iranian painters and his works were offered for the first time in the Tehran auction in 2014.