Ahmad Nadalian was born in a nomad family and in the heart of primitive society, but after his PhD graduation in England, he traveled to all corners of the world. On the one hand, his works are primitive, and on the other hand, he is familiar with the virtual interactive media technology.
Ahmad Nadalian was born in 1963, in Iran (Sangsar). He began his art activities in 1979s. His early works at school were cartoon drawings and caricatures. In 1983 he entered the Faculty of Fine Arts in Tehran University, studying for a Bachelor Degree in the field of Painting (BA). He completed his studies in1988.
In 1991 he began studies at Mphil/ Ph.D. level at the University of Central England (UCE). His research focused on “The Impact of Mysticism on Art”. He completed his studies in 1995 and was awarded a Ph.D. degree.
During university years he traveled extensively to all parts of Iran and prepared more than 10000 slides from various aspects of Persian culture, social life, customs and art (paintings, architecture, mural decoration, folk art and handicrafts). These activities affected the subject matter and style of his drawings and paintings.
In 1990 he went to France and stayed for two years in Paris, studying aspects of Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Persian, Greek, African and European Modern art at different museums. Most of the work done in France was cartoon drawings.
After his PhD study, in 1996, he went back to his homeland Iran and started carved stones and focused on environmental art. In spring, summer and most holidays he lives in his garden home in Poloor (a village 65 K.M. from Tehran) and enjoys collecting stones, which he considers to be ready made sculptures.
From the year 2000 he started to travel to many countries in Middle East, Europe, US, Asia and preformed his environmental art project. His environmental art project include the carving on rocks that can be seen in many countries such as Italy, USA, England, Germany, Spain, France, China, South Korea, Hungary, Slovakia, Netherlands, Greece, Russia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Bangladesh, Finland, Lebanon, Syria, Azerbaijan, Sweden, Denmark, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Turkey, Switzerland, Serbia, South Africa, Austria, Cyprus, Georgia, Japan, Malaysia, India, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Ecuador, Armenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Thailand, Portugal, Morocco, Tunisia ...and his homeland Iran.
