Career
Arabshahi held his first solo exhibition at the Iran-India Centre, Tehran, in 1964, four years before graduating from the College of Decorative Arts, Tehran. His work includes oils on canvas, sculptures and architectural reliefsamong the latter commissions for the Office for Industry and Mining, Tehran, 1971, and the California Insurance Building, Santa Rosa, California, United States of America, 1985. His sources of inspiration comprise Achaemenid and Assyrian art as well as Babylonian carvings and inscriptions.
Combining tradition and modernity.
His work has been shown in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Iran, Europe and the United States including Two Modernist Iranian Pioneers, at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001. And Iranian Contemporary Art, Barbican Centre, London, 2001.
He lives and works in Tehran and California. 1964, Ministry of Arts and Culture Prize, 4th Tehran Biennial 1964, Tehran, Iran, India Artistic Center 1965, Tehran, Iran, Tehran University 1965, Paris, France, Biennial 1967, Paris, France, Galerie Solstice 1967, Paris, France, Museum of Sacred Arts 1968, United States.A, Mobile Exhibition of Contemporary Iranian Arts 1970, Tehran, Iran, Modern Iranian Art: a Retrospective, Iran American Society 1971, Tehran, Iran, Negar Gallery 1973, Paris, France, Grand Palais 1973, Paris, France, Galerie Guiot 1973, Monaco, France, Monaco International Exhibition, Monte Carlo 1974, Tehran, Iran, International Exhibition of Arts 1975, Tehran, Iran, Blue, Takhte Jamshid Gallery 1975, Tehran, Iran, Volume and Environment, Iran America Society.
