Bahram Dabiri was born in the city of Shiraz, Iran in the year of the Tiger, 1950, under the sign of Sagittarius, whose symbole, the Centaur with bow and arrow, figure greatly in his works. Gazing at the bas-relief and sculptures on the walls of nearby Persopolis and the splendid inscription on the Naqsheh Rustam Monument, are amongst the artist's treasured childhood memories. At the age of twelve, without encouragement or tutelage but strictly on his own, Dabiri started his career in what he likes to call 'The Paintings'.

In 1966, his family moved from Shiraz to Tehran, the capital of Iran, and two years later, he held his first professional exhibition at the Sepid Gallery.