Arash's space-based calligraphic artwork at Red Poppy Art House Gallery, San Francisco. Photo by Anastasia Sierra
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Arash Shirinbab is an award-winning artist residing in San Francisco Bay Area whose work has been featured in over 80 exhibitions, including more than 12 solo shows, spanning the US, Spain, France, Poland, Italy, Canada, Russia, Japan, Thailand, India, Korea, and Iran. Highlights include prestigious venues like the San Diego Museum of Art's Artists Guild and Triton Museum of Art in California, Associazione Culturale Day One in Italy, Kunsthaus-Berlin-Marbella Museum in Spain, and Saadabad Palace in Tehran.
Arash’s art draws from the rich traditions of Near Eastern lettering and calligraphy, reimagining them in contemporary forms such as calligraffiti, painting, ceramics, digital art, and installations. His work is part of private collections and prominent museums worldwide, including the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy in Moscow and the Abgineh Museum in Tehran.
See Arash's upcoming calligraphy public programs in March-May 2026
Calligraphy services
Calligraphy services
Calligraphic design (coming soon)
Most Abstract Works
Most Abstract Works
Never Ending Circles
City of Love
Towards Legibility
Towards Legibility
Ceramics, Installations, and Collaborations
Ceramics, Installations, and Collaborations
Contain and Serve
Contain and Serve
“Contain and Serve” is a multi-year collaboration between Arash Shirinbab and award-winning ceramicist Forrest Lesch-Middelton. This partnership began in 2015 with a series of calligraphy-inscribed ceramic tiles, vessels, and installations exploring themes of hospitality, morality, and justice within contemporary cultural and media landscapes.
Their work has been exhibited in several museums and galleries since then including The Earth is Broken, the Earth is Whole at Hopkins Center for the Arts in Minnesota (2019), The Potter of Ages at Abgineh Museum in Tehran (2021), To Contain and To Serve at ICCNC Gallery in Oakland (2017), Wisdom of the East at OACC Gallery in Oakland (2019), Calligraphies in Conversation at San Francisco Center for the Book in San Francisco (2019), and Curtain at Walter and Elise Haas Fund in Sanfrancisco (2020).
Selected Ceramic Vessels
Selected Ceramic Engraves
Selected Ceramic Tiles
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