Davar Yousefi, teacher and contemporary painter, was born in 1963 in Khalkhal, Ardabil. He was interested in art since he was a teenager. After graduation, Yousefi pursued painting personally and sporadically until he was 26 years old. He has a bachelor's and master's degree in painting from Islamic Azad University.

In 1994, Yousefi held his first solo exhibition at Aria Gallery in Tehran. Since then, he has exhibited his works in solo and group exhibitions inside and outside of Iran. Davar Yousefi has been working as an art teacher in Soore, Al-Zahra and Azad Islamic universities. In addition to painting, he has also created murals with mosaics in public spaces in Tehran. The first appearance of Yousefi's works in auctions dates back to January 2019 in the 13th Tehran auction.

Yousefi's paintings have a primitive and primitive color. Human and animal figures are the main motifs of his works. Preparations such as abstract painting, dissecting organs and drawing figures in a flat form and from a full-length or half-length angle are reminiscent of ancient paintings from Cairo to Lorestan. The composition of his works and the use of spatial perspective also give an archaic effect to the paintings. Judgment interferes in the drawing of figures in the two axes of coexistence and substitution of organs, and by intersecting parts of the figure or expanding and extending it by repeating parts such as the head, it creates its own mythological characters. Raw and primitive finishing, and working with colors that are close to native organic colors in some paintings, are consistent and synergistic with the subjects and painting approach of this artist.

On the occasion of this artist's exhibition at Sa Gallery, Javed Ramezani writes: "It is easy to recognize the artist's tendency towards visual mythology when faced with native motifs. The use of empty spaces with sensitivity to texture and form along with the reduction of massification of motifs and colors has strengthened the artist's aesthetic point of view. In most of the works, the audience of Yousefi's paintings is faced with a double space. A space where light is a function of the inner identity of the color and at the peak of freedom from restraint, it evolves the identity of the forms with the perspective of depth. Yousefi's effort to achieve a new language based on his continuous visual search in the field of education and learning and as an academic instructor clearly provides the possibility of escaping from the space of modern painters and escaping the dead end of formal identity; What happens less often for the emerging generation of modern Iranian artists."