Born in Tehran in 1966, Iranian artist Mohammad Mehdi Tabatabaei graduated from the Tehran Art University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in Painting. A member of the Society of Iranian Painters and the Association for Illustrators of Children’s books, Tabatabaei has participated in collective exhibitions and biennales in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Iran, Switzerland, Bratislava, Serbia and Japan since 1993 and has held solo exhibitions in Tehran since 2002. In 2007 and 2008 he participated in Illustration workshops at the BritishCouncil and Italian Embassy in Tehran.