Samira Abbassy
Artist in Residence - Farm Session 3 - 2009 & Farm Session 2 - 2008

Samira Abbassy was born in Ahwaz, Iran in 1965 and is an Arabic Iranian. In 1967, her family moved to Britain where she was educated & studied painting, first at Birmingham Polytechnic and then at Canterbury College of Art.

Abbassy’s career was centred on London for most of the 1980s and 1990s. She established a successful gallery career, showing with Mercury Gallery in Cork Street, the Royal Academy, where she won a painting award in 1997. Her work was acquired by the British Government Art Collection in 2002. She is represented in the UK by England & co gallery. In 1998 she moved to New York where she helped to set up the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Center where she currently has a studio. In 2006 she was awarded a Yaddo fellowship & then in 2007 a NYFA.

Solo and group shows in New ork include the Skoto gallery, Vernacular press, Kim Foster & Kathleen Cullen galleries, the Islip Museum, the Queens Museum & Dowling College.

Her solo shows have been reviewed by the New York Times & Newsday.

Her two children attend The Farm Arts Camp.