Shahin Afrassiabi

Shahin Afrassiabi, born 1963 in Tehran, Iran, moved to the UK at the age of 13, is a painter, sculptor, installation artist.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s he was a member of the ARC group along with artists Nicola Pellegrini, Otonella Mocellin, Lennie Lee and Emma Holmes. He studied for an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and after helping to run the gallery "Trade Apartment" he was one of ten artists selected for the Beck's futures competition. He has exhibited at a number of well known public galleries including the ICA 2000, Whitechapel Gallery 2001, the Project Art Centre Dublin 2004 as well as private gallery Wilma Gold. He has been written about extensively in the British and international press.