In 2006, Ghadyanloo responded to an open call for submissions from Tehran's Bureau of Beautification. He submitted concepts which the Bureau approved, and he then began painting murals throughout the city. the murals that he created employed tromp l’oeil techniques. In early 2015, he held his first exhibition in Britain entitled
Perception at the Howard Griffin Gallery in London which proved so popular that all the canvases sold out before the exhibition opened. He also painted several murals in the city, including one in
Shoreditch. In March 2017 Ghadyanloo staged the exhibition "Space of Hope" in London at the 14,000 square foot
Ambika P3. The paintings in the exhibition were compared to those of Le Corbusier. Same year in October, Ghadyanloo became the first Iranian artist to be commissioned in both Iran and the US since the revolution in 1979, when he completed a major public commission for the Rose Kennedy Greenway project in Boston, US. A mural emblazoned across a 5,230 sq. ft. wall opposite the city’s South Station. " In 2018 , joined by a small team of muralists from his hometown, he completed
Rebuilding the Sky in Almetyevsk, Russia, in similar style to his perspective-challenging and illusion-based works in Tehran. Ghadyanloo wanted to add joyfulness and color to the concrete look of the city. Around the same time, he also painted a piece titled
The Fraud and Hope on the rooftop of the OK Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria, which depicts a huge water swirl and a gaping black hole. The piece was created as commentary on the issue of the global warming, melting ice, and the role of water, but also references migration crises and the artist’s personal phobias. In 2019 he was commissioned by
World Economic forum to design and paint a large-scale painting titled
Finding Hope specifically for 2019 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. The cover of the 2024
Phish album
Evolve features a painting by Ghadyanloo. == Exhibitions ==