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Samira Abbassy
Iranian-born British painter (born 1965) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Samira Abbassy (born 1965) is an Iranian-born British painter and draftsperson, of Arab heritage. Her work addresses issues of mythology, female deities, psyche, memory, and the diaspora.[1][2][3] Abbassy lives in New York City, and previously lived in London.[4]
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Early life and education
Samira Abbasy was born in 1965 to an Arab family, in the city of Ahvaz in Khuzestan Province, Imperial State of Persia (now Iran).[5] Her family moved to London when she was two years old, and she was raised in Kent.[6][7]
She studied drawing at Birmingham Polytechnic (now Birmingham City University) and then Canterbury College of Art (now Kent Institute of Art & Design), where she obtained a BFA degree in painting in 1987.[5]
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Career
Abbasy began making art in the 1980s. After graduating, she exhibited her work in London for ten years, and then moved to New York City in 1998.[7] Abbasy's work is a marriage between Western art and Eastern art traditions, including referencing Christian iconography, as well as Persian and Indian miniature painting, Chinese painting, and Qajar court painting.[6]
She was awarded a fellowship by New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in 2007.[8] She was affiliated with the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective.[9] The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) awarded her a lifetime membership, in recognition of her work in developing the EFA Studio Program.[10]
Abbasy's artworks are in public museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[11] the British Museum,[12] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Grey Art Museum collection at New York University.[13]
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