Yaghoub Moshfeghifar was born in December 1961 in Marand city and 5 years later his father passed away and he spent his teenage years working and earning money.

In 1983, Moshfeghifar participated in the national entrance exam and was accepted to study in the field of educational sciences at Beheshti Teacher Training University Program in Tabriz. After completing the two-year course, he entered education in 1985. Moshfeghifar had a special interest in doing artistic works, and after his works were seen by the officials, the activities of the artistic departments of the office were entrusted to him. This artist came to Tehran with his family in October 1992 after being accepted in Tehran University of Art and took an academic mission to study painting. 

During his four years of studying in Tehran, Moshfeghifar did artistic activities, including participating in the biennial painting exhibitions of art students all over the country, the biennial painting of Iran and the Islamic world (at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Saba Academy), painting murals for various organizations. He graduated from Art University in 1996. Moshfeghifar stayed away from art for three years due to various problems in life, such as building a house and going under debt due to his student loans. In 1999, he was accepted again to study painting at Shahed Art University and graduated in 2001. A year before that, he started teaching in Tabriz on a trial basis and then returned there permanently. In 2001, Moshfeghifar entered Farhangian University and taught there for 15 years until January 2016 when he applied for retirement.

He continued to work with the same university as an independent lecturer till 2021. For twenty years, he had the honor of collaborating with other universities in Tabriz (University of Islamic Art, National University of Tabriz, Payam Noor, Islamic Azad, Al-Zahra Technical and Vocational College) until he left teaching forever and focused on painting entirely. The recent works of Moshfeghifar give us insights to his academic background as well as open a window to his birthplace and surroundings while growing up. On the one hand, we see the influence of traditional Iranian painting in the colors of Moshfeghifar, and on the other, we fall in love with the calm, simple atmosphere and pastoral life of his works.

The blue colored nature and surroundings along with other transparent and pure colors in his paintings have a favorable and eye-catching repetition and create an almost poetic atmosphere. In the end, all these features distinguish the works of Yaghoub Moshfeghifar and easily bring the attribute of beauty to the mind of the audience. Since his childhood, this artist has put painting in place of his shortcomings and sought shelter in this art, as a result, perhaps even today, he considers the blue essence of his paintings a refuge from the mechanical life.