In the year 2000, he got married and in the following year he established ARA Painting Studio and started to teach painting,
considering classical and traditional values.
The most important exhibitions he has participated: The Exhibition of Realist painters of Iran at Tehran Contemporary Museum of Art 1999 and The Group Exhibition of KARA Studio Painters at SABZ Gallery 1998 and at SA'AD ABAD Palace, 2003. In 2005, Iman received the
William Bouguereau award and the Chairman's Choice award in the second international ARC salon competition.