Salah Sheikh Mohammadi was born in 1947 in Mahabad, Iran. He completed his education in the same city. He became interested in art at an early age Together with a group of other artists from Mahabad, they started collaborating with the Mahabad Center for Voice and Color; He was active in the fields of cinema, television, theater, and dubbing. He was a school teacher and after retirement, he moved to South Kurdistan where he continued his work. In the south, he met and worked with Ibrahim Saeedi and later with other directors such as Shaukat Amin Korki.