Iman Maleki was born in 1976 in Teheran. From an early age he was fascinated with paintings. When he was fifteen, Maleki studied with Morteza Katouzian, the greatest realist painter in Iran, and ever since he has had many successful exhibitions of his paintings.
The most important exhibition to date was the “Exhibition of Realist Painters of Iran” in the Contemporary Museum of Art in Teheran (1999) and the “Group Exhibition of KARA Studio Painters” in the SABZ gallery (1998) and the “Sa'ad Abad Palace” (2003).