Morteza DerehBaghi was born in Tehran in 1969 and started painting seriously at the age of 15. He graduated from Tehran Academy of Fine Arts and received his bachelor's degree in painting from the Faculty of Art and Architecture of Tehran Azad University.

In 1993, DerehBaghi became the first winner of biennial of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art for student and held his first solo exhibition in Isfahan Classic Gallery in the same year. In 2004, he became the first winner of the Islamic world biennial , and after that, in 2011, he participated in the 54th Venice Biennale with a conceptual work called "Light and Peace". After experiencing academic education in Tehran, Morteza DerehBaghi worked as an artist outside of Iran for seven years; He spent this time discovering and intuiting modern art. He has had many exhibitions inside and outside of Iran.

Morteza Darehbaghi experienced different styles during his artistic activity; His early works contain figures influenced by Iranian painting, but his later works have moved towards abstraction; However, they are not completely abstract and plant forms and patterns similar to Iranian paintings are diagnosable in them. His works are rooted in traditional Iranian art, as he himself says: "The history of art in Iran is a brilliant history that unfortunately we have not paid much attention to. These roots of traditional art appeared in brilliant forms from the Safavid period, and until the Qajar period, you can see many carvings created by artists in this valley. I am very interested in these characters and these characters are usually included in my works.

The simultaneous presence of geometric forms and irregular forms indicate contrast. According to DerehBaghi, this contradiction is rooted in the contrasts that he has dealt with in life, coexisted inside him and came out with an artistic expression: "If I like an Iranian flower and flower form that belongs to a piece from hundred years ago, I put it in a modern context that will eventually form a unit together. This is my definition of contemporary art."