Shideh Tami, painter, sculptor, and poet, was born in Tehran. She was a self-taught painter, but later, at 21, he attended Aydin Aghdashloo's classes for a short and incomplete period. Along with painting, she was also interested in literature and published her first collection of poems called "Pardeyeh Sormei-e-Shab" in 1977. In 1993, Tami exhibited her figurative works for the first time in Mansoureh Hosseini Gallery. Pervaneh Etemdi was her motivation for holding this exhibition. The first experience of this painter's international presence took place in 1998. A solo exhibition of her works was held at the Association of Dynamic Art and Culture in Paris. A year later, her solo exhibition was in the Paris Arts District. Since then, her artworks have been exhibited in countries such as the United States, Armenia, England, and UAE. During these years, she continued to work as a poet and writer, and in addition to publishing several other poetry collections, she wrote three books for children. Tami's paintings caught the attention of Fereydoun Av, an important collector of contemporary Iranian art, who was among the first to collect her works.

The subject of most of Tami's paintings is her own face or the faces of females, painted in muted and dark colors. The faded and sad looks of these faces indicate an inner pain. Her figures of mutilated human limbs are also full of bitter and biting expressions. Her portraits have a psychological quality and open a window to the mental and emotional worlds of the model. Her exaggeration and interference in parts of the face and its proportions, like removing the nose, drawing the face, or distorting the eyes, emphasize this quality. In this way, she uses limited color options and shaky environmental lines.