(1965 - )
Samira Abbassy was born in Ahwaz, Iran in 1965 but at the age of two she and her family emigrated to England, where they settled in Kent. She studied for her BA in fine art and painting at Canterbury College of Art from 1984 to1987. She has exhibited in Tel Aviv, Madrid and London, where she won the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition M&G Prize in 1997 for the best painting by an artist under 35. Today she lives and works in New York where solo exhibitions of her work were held at the Skoto Gallery in 2002 and at the Anthony Giordano Gallery at Dowling College in 2007.
