Arabali Sherveh was born in Kurdistan in 1939 and died in Tehran in 2011. Sherveh started his artistic career by teaching drawing and painting in the villages of Hamadan and then entered Tehran University Faculty Of Fine Arts in 1969 to study Painting. After completing his studies in 1975, he taught design at the Academy of Visual Arts and then at the Faculty of Fine Arts.

Activities in the field of painting, pottery and sculpture, along with the translation of art books such as Drawings Methods and Techniques, Basic Perspective Drawing: A Visual Approach, The Art of Color; The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color by Johannes Itten, Modern Chromatics, with Applications to Art and Industry and History of the Painting in Iran and the World are among his efforts. Through the translation of important books in the field of drawing and painting and the application of these studies in his training, Sherveh is known as the founder of modern design education.

During his artistic activity, Arabali Sherveh authored and translated more than one hundred books and held numerous exhibitions; One of the last exhibitions of this artist during his lifetime dates back to 2006 at the Azad and Shams Galleries, where he presented oil paintings of nature and of stories from the Shahnameh. In 2016, Sherveh Cultural and Art Institute was established by his wife, Marzieh Qara Daghi, and since then it has held several exhibitions of the artist's works.