Sousan Ettehad was born at 1962 in Abadan,Iran.
She began paintig with Ms. Zoya Sadri and Mr. Mahmoud Meraji in 1982 and started her academic education ;studing in Bachelor of painting at University of AL-Zahra.She completed her study in Master of Art Research in Tehran Art University on 1999;
while training for advanced painting in Mr. Gholamhossein Nami atelier. She found Ms. Maryam Mahin art classes in 2000 and continued to improve her academic knowledge at her atelier until 2012.
At 2000, she was invited and joined to teach in Islamic Azad University and Science and Culture University as visiting instructor and her research "Symbols in Iranian Paintings" was published by Iran Art Journal.
Also, her paintings have been published in various books like IRANICA, Iranian Professional Women Encyclopedia, Colors and Motifs, The Color of Kindness, and Zurvanian Ceremony in Ancient Iran.
In three decade of her artistic career, Sousan Ettehad has participated in more than 20 group and 3 solo exhibitions. About her painting subjects, she says: "My subjects mainly express a personal feeling or transfer a specific concept; either I am painting a Sama ceremony, a figure, a myth or even a doll on my canvas."
It is a strange world, the world of motifs.
As if I have entered another world, when I took the pen in my hand. A world full of conversation, the conversation between me and the white surface. Pen moves steady on the surface and there is no me anymore. It starts dancing on the infinite waves of paper or canvas as pen is the leader. In this situation, various topics are merely excuses to express the inner feelings. Sometimes it is a green nature or a still life, a myths or dolls and plush toys or …
All of these visual elements passing through me - the painter - and transforming to excuses for expressing loneliness, love, sadness, hatred, … and of course the motherhood feelings that have been my inspiration in most of my works in the last 10 years.
It seems bearing and nurturing her created an evolution in my works and of course before that on my feelings which the result is clear in my last decade artworks. It seems up until then, I did not know myself; my most complex and contradictory feelings have been decoded after her and nothing has been vague and meaningless anymore.
It is a strange world, the world of motifs; a world full of wonders and miracles.
Solo Exhibitions
| 2014 | Tree Art Gallery | Karaj - Iran |
| 2010 | Mahjoubi Gallery - Ashiyan Naghsh-o-Mehr | Tehran - Iran |
| 1994 | Vali Art Gallery | Tehran - Iran |
Group Exhibitions
| 2013 | Persbook Website | Tehran - Iran |
| 2009 | Iranian Center for International Conferences | Tehran - Iran |
| 2007 | Silak Art Gallery | Tehran - Iran |
| 2005 | Sabalan Art Gallery | Tehran - Iran |
| 2004 | Mani Art Gallery | Tehran - Iran |
| 2003 | Art Cultural center | Tehran - Iran |
| 2003 | Abkar Museum - Saadabad Historical and Cultural Center | Tehran - Iran |
| 2003 | Sheikh Hadi Art Gallery | Tehran - Iran |
| 2001 | Niavaran Cultural Center | Tehran - Iran |
| 2001 | Saadabad Historical and Cultural Center | Tehran - Iran |
| 2001 | Behzad Art Gallery | Tehran - Iran |
| 2000 | Niavaran Cultural Center | Tehran - Iran |
| 2000 | Amir Kabir Cultural Center | Tehran - Iran |
| 2000 | 7Samar Art Gallery | Tehran - Iran |
| 1995 | Niavaran Cultural Center | Tehran - Iran |
| 1993 | Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art | Tehran - Iran |