Born in 1954, Tehran, Shahrzad Ossouli studied at the Tehran School of Art and at the Faculty of Decorative Arts in her native city.

Ossouli’s work has been labeled as ‘mystic landscapes’. One explanation of her paintings may be that she captures the ambiance of the scene as well as the spiritually purified state of being arrived at by the mystic wayfarer. Many of her paintings consist of a vast mountain range or desert and a single tree. This symbolizes the interdependent, yet paradoxical, relationship in Persian Sufism between the microcosm and the macrocosm; the self and the absolute. However, Ossouli’s paintings do not exhibit the powerful ecstatic character of Sufism practice. She conveys a darker and melancholic eschatology in her paintings and her themes are closer the idea of para-realism, i.e., a subjective reality corresponding with one’s encounter with the empirical world yet distinct and without any necessary causal relation.

Oussouli has held more than 70 solo and group exibitions in Iran, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Spain, Italy, Germany, Norway, Netherlands, Switzerland, Hungary, Finland, Poland, Turkey, and China.

She is the Director of Ava & Nava Art Institute in Zanjan, Iran, since 2002. Ossuoli started to work as an Art teacher in 1986.  She is also a specialist for teaching and making workshops with blind and disabled people.

She is a member of DENA Iranian Women Artists.