Shahin Afrassiabi, born 1963 in Tehran, is an artist.

In the late 1980s, Shahin was a member of the ARC group along with [Gid London], Nicola Pellegrini

Nicola Pellegrini

Nicola Pellegrini is an artist, curator, and architect; a conceptual artist working with photography, installation and video....

, Ottonella Mocellin, Lennie Lee

Lennie Lee

Lennie Lee is a South African conceptual artist who lives and works in London.-Life and career:Lennie Lee is a British artist born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He moved to the UK in 1960. He was educated at Dulwich college in London before winning a scholarship to study philosophy at Christ...

, David Miles

David Miles

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, and Emma Southgate. He studied for an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College

Goldsmiths College

Goldsmiths, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom which specialises in the arts, humanities and social sciences, and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It was founded in 1891 as Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute...

. 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

Institute of Contemporary Arts

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 2000, Whitechapel Gallery

Whitechapel Gallery

The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, it was founded in 1901 as one of the first publicly-funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in London, and it has a long...

 2001, the Project Art Centre Dublin 2004 as well as private gallery Vilma Gold. His work has been described in The Guardian

The Guardian

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