Shahab Fotouhi was born in 1980. Between 2008 and 2010 he studied fine arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. His exhibitions and video works have been shown worldwide in various prestigious institutions, including New Voices at the Barbican Centre, London, 7th Taipei Biennale and 11th Istanbul Biennale. Between 2010 and 2015, Fotouhi was the co-founder and co-organiser of the artist initiative and collective Kaf in Tehran.

Shahab Fotouhi: to take a certain socio-political position, to adopt an ideology, is to embrace a set of attitudes and beliefs. Concerning art praxis, this not only tethers one's freedom but also tends to pin the signification down, it shelters consumers — inhabitants of a nauseous textual doxa.

Concerning Fotouhi's practice, as an artistic modus operandi, suspension is an offspring of dialectics of playfulness and seriousness. Study for Nuclear Bomb Shelter (No.137), “Security, Love & Democracy (for export only)” and “Towards Salvation” (in Commemoration of Epic 11th September) are examples of free exchanges of arguments and counter—arguments hopefully with no terminal synthesis. Born in Yazd, Iran, Fotouhi lives and works in Tehran now. He works with different medias like installation, photography and video. His works has been shown in “Too Much Pollution to Demonstrate,” curated by Amiel Grumberg at Apex art Gallery, New York in 2005. “Ethnic Marketing,” curated by Tirdad Zolghadr at Azad Gallery, Tehran in 2006 and Loop Art Fair, Barcelona in 2007 among other exhibitions.