Born in Abadan, Iran, on January 7, 1949, Koorosh Angali received his high school diploma in Persian literature in 1968, from Razi High school.  In the same year he moved to Tehran and enrolled at the College of Mass Communication Sciences, where he received his first bachelor’s degree in Public Relations and Publicity in l972.  After finishing the mandatory two years of military training and service in the city of Shiraz, in 1974 he moved back to Tehran and, having always been interested in art, he started working as a freelance graphic artist and art director.  At the same time he also worked as animator for the National Iranian Radio and Television (NIRT), and as a guitar player in bands and gigs, between 1974 and 1976.

When he was in his mid teens, Koorosh finally fulfilled a childhood wish and picked up the guitar.  Starting from his first college, he founded the band Press Boys for the college, in which he was the lead guitar player and front singer.  Between 1974 and 1976 he played guitar professionally in different bands and with different famous Iranian singers.

In 1976 he decided to pursue a lifetime desire and eventually migrated to the United States, in the fall of that year, to study art.

Koorosh received his second bachelor’s degree, this time in Visual Arts, from Humboldt State University in 1980 (partly through Richard L. Anderson Scholarship).  After graduating from HSU, he moved to Los Angles and started to work as an art director and graphic designer, mostly in the music business, in which he also worked as a guitar and bass guitar player, performing with different (and almost all) Persian famous singers and entertainers.  During this period, which lasted about ten years, he made a reputable career mostly by designing and illustrating for album covers, posters and promotional materials for major Iranian corporations, music companies, singers and other artists.

On the New Year's eve of 1990 he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he settled, first, in Berkeley and later in Oakland.  In 1993 he enrolled in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, at University of California, Berkeley, where he received his Masters degree in 1998, and his Ph.D. in the spring of 2004, both in the field of Iranian Studies, with emphasis on Iranian Linguistics.

Positions:
— From 1998 to 2006 he taught Persian Syntax and Grammar at the University of California, Berkeley.
— In 2005 and 2006 he also taught the same topic at De Anza Community College, Cupertino, Ca.
— Between 2006-2008 he worked with the University of Texas at Austin, as Senior Research Fellow
.....(a Post Doc. position).
—He is currently working at the DLI (Defense Language Institute), at the Presidio of Monterey, California,
....as Assistant Professor of the Persian Language.

Art:
Koorosh Angali's art work has been shown in many group exhibitions and one man shows including:

— Lotus Gallery, solo exhibition (Austin, Texas, 2008-09),
— Paraphernalia, at PumpProject Studios, group exhibition (Austin, Texas, 2008),
— East (The East Austin Studio Tour), group exhibition (Austin, Texas, 2007),
— Seyhoun Gallery solo exhibition (Tehran, Iran, 2002),
— Alliance of Islamic Arts And Education, group exhibition (1997),
— Ovissi Gallery Art Contest (1996, first prize winner),
— Humboldt State University Annual Juried Show (1980, first prize winner),
— Simi Valley Annual Art Contest (1977, second prize winner),
— San Jose Lincoln Library: The Iranian Artists of Northern California, group exhibition (1991-93),
— San Francisco: Whole Life Expo (1990, 1991),

----and many other gatherings for the Iranian Artists.

----For a complete list of Koorosh’s exhibitions see his resumé.

----His other activities include poetry compositions, music compositions and arrangements, live performance, partly as reciter of Persian poetry, and as an actor.  His stage appearances include:

— Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA.
— Club String, Oakland, CA,
— Ashkenaz, Berkeley CA
— Freight & Salvage, Berkeley, CA, etc.

----For a comprehensive list of stage acting and performances see Art Career