After graduating from Iran's Shiraz University in 1986 as an electrical engineer, Vahid Dastpak continued to pursue his passion of painting, drawing and photography. He took his first printmaking course in 2002 and has exhibited locally and internationally through the Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, the Federation of Canadian Artists Gallery, Cityscape Community Art Space in North Vancouver and the juried Contemporary Print Triennial in Le Locle, Switzerland.