Shahla Arbabi (born 1945)
is an
Iranian-born American artist and educator. She resides in
Washington DC.
Biography
Arbabi was born in 1945 in
Shiraz, Iran. She began painting in childhood.
From 1961 until 1965 she studied at the
University of Tehran in the College of Fine Arts, before spending four years at the
Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma is a public tertiary academy of art in Rome, Italy. It was founded in the sixteenth century, but the present institution dates from the time of the unification of Italy and the capture of Rome by the Kingdom ...
. She taught art at the
University of Tehran in the late 1960s to 1974. After moving to the United States in 1980, she gained her MFA degree in painting and printmaking from
American University
The American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. AU was charte ...
in 1983.
Arbabi's work is in various public museum collections including the
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is an art museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., focusing on Asian art. The Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art together form the National Museum of Asian Art in the United States. Th ...
, the
University of Maryland Art Gallery
The University of Maryland Art Gallery is the flagship art museum on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. The Gallery is a member of the American Alliance of Museums, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries, and the Natio ...
,
among others. Her 1996 mixed-media work, ''Untitled #2'' is owned by the
United States Mission to the United Nations, the United States' delegation to the
United Nations.
During her career she has shown her work at many solo and group exhibitions internationally, both in Europe and the United States.
See also
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List of Iranian women artists
References
1945 births
Living people
20th-century Iranian women artists
21st-century Iranian women artists
Iranian expatriates in the United States
Academic staff of the University of Tehran
American University alumni
Artists from Shiraz
Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma alumni
University of Tehran alumni
Iranian-American culture in Washington, D.C.
American artists of Iranian descent
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