Farnaz Shadravan was born and raised in Iran. She immigrated to the United States in 1979 and was deported to Iran in 1981. Shadravan returns to America in 1986 and graduates from Art School-University of Utah in 1990.

Farnaz Shadervan started her artistic career as manuscript illuminator of the Quran and then had extensive training in printmaking and sculpture at the San Francisco Art Institute and in private workshops. Shadravan also graduated from UCSF dental school in 1994.

She describes her art as follows, "I am drawn to art making for my love of storytelling. Often I work with found objects. I add my mark to objects that have stories of their own and I am always humbled by their magnificence."