Hadi Hazavei is a visual artist, researcher and author who graduated from Tehran University, the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1968.  In 1969 he came to New York to continue his study and received his Ph.D in Art Education from Columbia University. Hazavei continued his study at New York University in Museum Research up to1989. He has had numerous solo and group shows in Tehran and in major cities in the United States. His recent solo exhibition was at the Maheh-Mehr Gallery in Tehran in 2009. Hazavei is the author of many articles and books on the subject of Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Education, and study and research of murals in different locations across Iran. He lives and works in New Jersey and Tehran.