Mehdi Chitsazha (b. 1973) is an Iranian artist. He received his BA in painting from Shahed University Faculty of Art and his MA in art research from Tehran University of Art. As an adolescent, his interest in literature and cinema initially led him to join the Young Cinema Society during high school. It was only later that an encounter with an art teacher with a special approach to teaching aroused his curiosity and interest in painting. Chitsazha would go on to experiment with painting over a variety of accessible materials such as newspapers and cotton sacks during his military service. These experiences later proved instrumental in making an animation called "The Trout". Publishing several articles and making documentary films, the urban environment, modernism, and artistic identity have more or less defined Mehdi Chitsazha's main intellectual and artistic trajectory for the past twenty years, particularly the social and urban realms as seen and lived from the childhood point of view. His paintings of children and stray dogs wandering around in the chaotic, winding alleys and roads rendered in oils seem to represent the innocent gaze and state of mind in these environments.
Chitsazha has exhibited extensively both in Iran and abroad including the National Museum of Fine Art in Kyrgyzstan (2003), and the Modern Art Museum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2022).