Mona Pad, a contemporary sculptor, was born in Tehran. Her father worked in documentary and animation production, and her family was interested in art. This issue was the basis of Mona Pad's tendency toward art. From the age of fourteen, she entered the school of art and literature for children and teenagers, where she started learning piano and choir. After graduating from this school at the age of seventeen, she started working in the ensemble of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra. In 12000, she entered Al-Zahra University and completed her bachelor's degree in industrial design in this university. Due to the nature of this field and her involvement with the construction of objects and working with different materials, she became interested in sculpture and did scattered experiments in this field. The course that Parviz Tanavoli held at Mahehr Gallery after returning to Iran in 2006 provided an opportunity for Pad to enter the world of sculpture professionally and more seriously. She tried to learn sculpting by participating in Tanavoli classes. The influence of Tanavoli's view on volume has remained in different periods of Pad's work. In her interviews, she emphasizes the depth of the impact she got from this period and owes her art to the poetic view and arrangements for working with materials and, most notably, the "reverse technique" (in which the reverse design of the mold that better engages the sculptor with the negative spaces of the volume) she learned from Tanavoli. Pad sculptures were first displayed in 2006 in a group exhibition at the Assar gallery. Her solo exhibition was held in Golestan Gallery in 2010. In the following years of professional activity, she collaborated with galleries such as Etemad, Shirin, and Tarahan-e-Azad and exhibited her works individually and in groups many times. Despite its specific approach towards matter and space, the volumes of Pad have covered different topics in different periods. Some of her volumes are portraits with obvious and hidden references to the human body. Some of her other volumes are abstract and based on spatial discoveries and pure form. In another phase of her career, she created a series of volumes inspired by the aesthetics of machines and mechanical parts.