Arezu was born in April 1983 in Tehran, Iran. She was brought up in an artistic family, with her mother a painter and her father an architect. In 2002, she
entered the University of Art and Architecture in Tehran to study stage design and theatre; at the same time, she was a student of one of the greatest surrealist painting masters in Iran, Taha Bahbahani.

In 2004, she moved to Dubai to continue her studies at the American University in Dubai. Having studied stage design alongside a surrealistic vision, she started photography, which has become her primary artistic medium. She uses different cameras and formats but most of her work is taken with a 120 mm camera. She has combined photography with other art forms such as poetry, painting, theatre, and installation art to realize her vision. In her four years of education in university she studied B/W photography, darkroom and alteration techniques, digital photography, and video. Artists like Man Ray, Edward Weston, Francesca Woodman, Joel Peter Witkin, and Kiki Smith inspire her work.

Her life stories and situations in the Middle East influence and appear in her work at times, but currently, Arezu's work centers on her experience of life as a young female. Most of the time her vision is obscure, unclear, abstract, exaggerated and surreal, as she grapples with this complex issue.