Sharina Shahbazi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1974. She studied photography at the Fachhochschule Dortmund, Germany and Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland; Barbican Art Gallery, London; the Swiss Institute, New York; the Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Shabazi lives and works in Zurich.