Morteza Asadi, painter and art teacher, was born in Tehran in 1957. He completed his preliminary art studies at the Tehran Academy of Fine Arts, then entered the Tehran College of Fine Arts and received a bachelor's degree in painting from this university in 1988. Asadi pursued his education in the field of illustration and graduated from Tehran University with a master's degree. He also completed a doctoral course in art research at Shahed University and became a faculty member in this university in 1997 and worked as an art lecturer.

Morteza Asadi participated in the second biennial course of contemporary Iranian painting in 1993 and won its prize. This success was repeated in the fourth period of this event in 1997. He also has the award of the first biennial course of the Islamic world which was held in Tehran in 2000. Asadi also worked in the field of art between 1990 and 2009.

After a period of experience in landscape painting, Asadi turned into an expressionist painter with a focus on themes related to the Iran-Iraq war and the struggle of the Palestinian people. In these paintings, Morteza Asadi used sharp lines, angular shapes, sharp colors and dark and light contrast in an epic expression. Although his compositions in the later periods of his works are made with fiery forms, they seem more moderate and their themes are also non-political and lyrical; This change of procedure after 90s also occurred in most of the artists of the so-called committed art movement.