Ghodratollah Agheli was born in 1968 in Jolfa, Iran. A prominent Iranian sculptor and painter, he is a member of the Iranian Society of Sculptors and the International Town of Paris. He began his artistic studies in Tabriz and followed with courses at the Center of Visual Arts of Hoze Honari, where he was instructed by master sculptors and painters of the Saghakhane school.

Agheli has exhibited in twenty fairs and over forty biennales as well as group exhibitions throughout Europe, Qatar and Marrakech, and has twenty-three permanent public installations throughout Iran. A varied artist and scholar, Agheli also constructs technical devices for the cinema and theatre, collects and etymologizes rug designs and Islamic designs and scripts. He has been widely published in essays, participated in research for ‘Fifty Years of Contemporary Art of Iran’, has authored the book ‘100 Years of New Statuary’ and others which involve the collection of statues and reliefs in the Islamic age.