Ali Chitsaz was born in 1979 in Tehran. He received his BA in Management from Azad University in 2001 before turning to art, later studying painting and design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
His first solo exhibition took place in 2008 at Golestan Gallery in Tehran, although his earliest experience exhibiting dates back seven years earlier to a group show at Tehran’s Italian School of Pietro Della Vale. Chitsaz currently lives and works in New York and has exhibited internationally throughout his career.
Chitsaz's work is characterized by bright colors, simplified forms, and exaggerated perspectives. With a sharp and often darkly humorous lens, he depicts a chaotic world shaped by violence and absurdity—one that draws equally from historical narratives and personal, imagined, or lived experiences. Beneath their playful and seemingly naïve surface, his paintings evoke layers of Iranian art history while reflecting on contemporary social and political realities.