The aim of the present study was to identify the challenges of art education in the education system. The research approach was qualitative and the method used was synthesis research. The target population included domestic and foreign sources available in the field of art education challenges. In order to access articles and research related to Persian and English keywords including art, problems of art education in education, art education, challenges of art education, obstacles to art education, problems of art education, various domestic electronic resources were indexed and electronic resources abroad were tried to extract the latest resources related to the present study. Accordingly, 95 existing sources were identified and reviewed in the period 2013 to 2025. The collection tool was a checklist and the transferability criterion and audit trail were used to validate the studies in this section. Finally, based on the content analysis; 55 basic themes, 4 first organizing themes with the titles of goals, content, strategy, and evaluation, and 11 second organizing themes with the titles of goal formulation, goal implementation, content formulation, implementation of the formulated content, time, space, teacher, student, tools and facilities, evaluation goals, and evaluation implementation, and an overarching theme titled challenges of art education were extracted.