Elaheh Heidari was born in 1968 in Tehran. She studied drawing and painting at the Radio and Television Art and Literature School under the supervision of Soghara Zare, and then took specialized art courses at Cité Paris.

Elaheh Heidari held her first solo exhibition in 1997 at Mansourah Hosseini Gallery in Tehran. In 2005, she won the first prize of the 4th Isfahan Biennale. Heidari has held numerous solo and group exhibitions inside and outside of Iran. She was also accepted to reside in the International City of Arts residency in Paris in 2011 and spent some time in France. Among the most important exhibitions of Heidari, we can mention the "Contemporary Iranian Art" exhibition at Museu da Água in Portugal and Artist House in Germany. Her works have also participated in the Tehran auction.

Elaheh Heidari's works are figurative. Her early works contained black and white figures, but gradually a few colors of blue, purple and brown spectrums were added to her palette during years. Elaheh Heidari focused on portraiture for six years, her paintings showed figures sitting on chairs. In the next period, she removed the figures and only the chairs remained, but eventually the figures returned. She says: "In my late collections, there were figures again; But this time we saw people whose heads were out of the frame and could not be seen. I like to reduce and eliminate and simplify everything in my works. Even in my design works, there are more of these omissions. In these works, the relationship between the movement of people and their relationship with the surrounding objects is very important to me. However, the people are completely tangible for the audience and their feelings are understandable.