Hadi Jamali, an Iranian illustrator and painter, is known for the expressive and abstract paintings he created after the 1990s. Jamali began his artistic studies in painting at the Tehran Academy of Fine Arts. Then in 1971 he was admitted to the Faculty of Decorative Arts and continued his studies in interior design. After a long break, he resumed his university studies and in 1996, and graduated with a master's degree in industrial design from the Faculty of Art and Architecture of the Islamic Azad University. He then became a member of the faculty of this university. In addition to painting, he also has taught architecture and has authored several books on art education for high school students. Jamali has had several exhibitions in Iran and abroad and has won the third International Painting Biennial of the Islamic World in 2004. Jamali joined the +30 group in 2000 with artists such as Rozita Sharaf Jahan, Behnam Kamrani, Ahmad Vakili, Karim Nasr, Mehrdad Mohebbali, Ahmad Morshedlou, etc .; A group of artists with different artistic tendencies and styles gathered to present their works and held several exhibitions in Iran, Japan, Italy, France and Armenia. The group tried to use new media to communicate with the audience and ended its work in the mid-2000s.
After graduating from the Faculty of Decorative Arts, Jamali worked in the field of children's book illustration and illustrated books such as "An Autumn Morning". At the beginning of his painting career, he used calligraphy and elements of the tradition of writing and page layout to achieve an abstract integrity. But in later periods these elements gave way to a variation of colored squares and rectangles. Pakbaz writes about this period of his works: "Jamali has been creating abstract works on a thin sheet of aluminum since the late 1990s. His paintings are often formed in a process of grooving, stitching, coloring and color washing. "The rough texture created on the work surface is reminiscent of cracked skin or unhealed wounds."