Soheila Haghighat(Dowlatabadi) was born in Isfahan,Iran. She studied traditional arts at Pardis Faculty of Arts in Isfahan and Al-Zahra University in Tehran and graduated in 1989.
She wrote her thesis on the subject of Arts of Armenian Iranians.
After graduation she worked and researched in different branches of Iranian traditional arts such as embossing , pottery , illumination , glass blowing , textile arts, natural dyes and carpet designing.She also pursued her interest in photography.
Since 1992 She has devoted her time to painting and teaching.She first used watercolors and painted people and scenery. Later on she used acrylic for her abstract figurative paintings , mainly depicting the feelings and sensibilities of Iranian women. Her individual exhibition in 2005 had the theme of "the place of women in the Iranian society".
Soheila Haghighat is member of the Society of Iranian Painters , member of the Canadian Association for Photographic Art, member of the Caroun Paint Club ( CPaC) and member of Caroun Photo Club ( CPC).Her paintings have been shown in thirteen individual and fifty nine group exhibitions in Iran and four group exhibitions abroad, two in New York and Houston ( Echoes in Blue), one on the occasion of World Women's Day in Istanbul,Turkey and one in Seoul,South Korea.