SUNNY RAHBAR
Sunny Rahbar, of Iranian heritage, was born in the United States and raised in Dubai. Rahbar holds a Bachelor of the Arts from Parsons Schools of Design. During school and after graduation, she worked at the Guggenheim Museum, New York before moving to London where she worked at Sotheby's on the Contemporary Decorative Art sales. She moved back to New York in 2001 where she was involved with the launch of eyestorm.com's New York gallery space.
At the end of 2001, Rahbar returned to Dubai and worked independently with young and emerging artists, her goal, to provide a platform to promote the work of the rising generation of artists in the region. In 2003 she took up the position of resident curator at Five Green, known as the first creative lifestyle showroom in the United Arab Emirates. Rahbar then co-founded The Third Line with her two partners in 2005.