Born Tehran 1963, lives and works in London

EDUCATION

MA Visual Arts, Goldsmiths College, 1995 – 1997

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011
Active Principles And Forms Of Life, MOTINTERNATIONAL, Brussles
Seam, A Didactic Model, with Miroslav Tichy, Soy Capitan Gallery, Berlin

2010
Subject to Form, Limoncello Gallery, London

2004
Project, Dublin

2002
Vilma Gold, London

2001
Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London

2000
Vilma Gold, London.

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2010
Use & Mention, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich

2009
Avec Vkhoutemas, Treignac Projet, Treignac

2006
The conditions of display, the Moore Space Miami, curated by Gean Moreno

2005
Hard Labour, Cell project space

2004
Showcase preview, South London Gallery
Expo 21, Mead Gallery, Warwick, Angel Row gallery, Nottingham

2003
The virgin show, The Wrong Gallery, New York.

2002
Early One Morning , New Generation Group Show, Whitechapel
Art Gallery, London
The Shadows, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.

2001
Beck’s Futures, Sotheby’s New York, ICA, London
Just history, Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv
Cover Versions, Trade Apartment, London

2000
These Epic Islands, Vilma Gold, London.

1999
Hundreds of thousands, The Trade Apartment, London.

1998
Surfacing, Institute of Contemporary Art, London.
Printemps, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, London.
The Powder Room, Factorij 63, Rotterdam.

1997
Humdrum (red), The Trade Apartment, London.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2010
Sherwin, S ‘Exhibitions picks of the week’ The Guardian, May

2006
Townsend, C ‘If Not Here, Where? If Not Now, When?: Aesthetics, history & modernity’ New Art From London, Thames & Hudson

2004
Browne, S ‘Shahin Afrassiabi, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 27 January - 6 March’ CIRCA Contemporary Art in Ireland
Tarsia, A ‘Shahin Afrassiabi’ Britannia Works (catalogue), British Council

2002
Falconer, M Frieze, Issue #70 October
Early One Morning. British Art Now (catalogue), Whitechapel Gallery
Moretti, S (ed.) Expo 21: Strategies of Display (catalogue), Angel Row gallery

2001
Miller, S and Gertler, F ‘Shahin Afrassiabi, Becks Futures 2 Art Prize’ The Guardian
Van Noord, G (ed.) Beck’s Futures 2 ICA