Mohsen Kiani was born in 1970 in Shiraz. He graduated with a bachelor degree in painting from Isfahan Art University and a master degree in painting from Tarbiat Modares University. After that, he went to England and received his doctorate and post-doctorate degrees in the field of architecture from the University of Birmingham.

Mohsen Kiani was the first prize winner of the specialized festival of visual arts in 1998 and after that he received several awards from the Birmingham City Council and the Royal Art Institute of England. In 2011, Kiani held his first solo exhibition in Iran called "Cup of Existence" at Sareban Gallery. His works are exhibited and preserved in prestigious museums in the world such as Birmingham, Wednesbury, Huddersfield, Coventry, London Modern Museum and Tehran and Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Art. The result of Mohsen Kiani's PhD research was a book titled "Baluchistan: Architecture, Handicrafts and Religious Symbols" which was published by Oxford Publishing House in 2015.

Mohsen Kiani's researches in the field of multiculturalism had a great impact on his artistic works. His works are inspired by Iranian painting and are created according to Iranian myths. In the details of his paintings, one can recognize the legends of the Shahnameh from the various weapons, tools, scrap metal and machine scraps. Also, the entanglement of forms and figures gives a narrative state to the paintings; As the painter himself states: "In my works, I used our own modern style and mythological art, along with the theme of portraiture and coffee house (Ghahveh-khaneh) painting. I don't like to show western abstract art in Iranian art and somehow I wanted to go back to the roots of our Iranian art in order to represent the oriental and Iranian flavor. Since the line element is seen a lot in these works, maybe they have a sense of narrative."