Shahla Arbabi

American, born Iran, 1945

Born in Shiraz, Iran, Shahla Arbabi began painting at the age of nine. She studied at Tehran's School of Fine Arts from 1961 to 1965, and then spent four years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. After a period teaching art the University of Tehran in the late Sixties and early Seventies, she moved to the United States, where she took a Master's degree in painting (1980) and another in print-making (1983) at American University in Washington, D. C.

She has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States, both in private galleries and in such prestigious venues as the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Her work has been the subject of numerous studies of contemporary painting and can be found in more than two dozen private and public collections, including the permanent holdings of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, of the Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies, as well as The Washington Post and of the Carnegie Institute.

Shahla Arbabi has received many awards for her work in Europe and the United States.

Courtesy Shahla Arbabi

Courtesy Shahla Arbabi