Mostafa Dashti, a painter and designer, was born in Khash. He started his first artistic experience in his hometown. Dashti was one of Aydin Aghdashloo's students, and he came to Tehran in the 1980s and studied painting with him. 

In 1992, his works were displayed in a factory for the first time in the group exhibition "Mira's Art." His first solo exhibition was held in Seyhoun Gallery in 1998. After that, Dashti repeatedly exhibited his works in individual and group exhibitions inside and outside the country. His works have been collected and published in a book entitled "Paintings of Mostafa Dashti from 1988 to 2005".

Dashti was a landscape artist in his early career. It's as if his interest in vast meadows, mountains disappearing on the horizon, and villages that can be seen in the distance, originated from his childhood memories and the desert landscapes of his hometown. The last artwork from this period was an 18-piece landscape with enormous dimensions, created in 1991. His way of representing the black mass in a part of this work was the source of his works' evolution. In this regard, he gradually moved away from objectivism, turned to a kind of expressive abstraction, and created paintings with an apocalyptic mood. Despite being abstract, some of these paintings recall a meteor fall or a star in a dark cosmic space. Ruyin Pakbaz writes about the artist's later period of works: "Dashti, in recent years, has been creating shapes that are both familiar and shocking, with thick and thin stains and drops of pigment on the canvas. He depicts the "drama" of nature and its eye-catching effects. Each of his paintings is a picture of the possibility of an accident. In his own words: "After performing my work, I hold my head in my hand, sit in front of the painting and think about when and where I saw this, which mountain, plain, sea, etc."