Sunny Rahbar is of Iranian origin and was raised in Dubai, UAE. She graduated with a BA from New York’s Parsons School of Design, in 2000, and worked at the Guggenheim Museum, before moving to London, where she worked at Sotheby’s on the contemporary decorative art sale. In 2005, with her two partners Claudia Cellini and HE Omar Gobash, she co-founded The Third Line in Dubai—a contemporary art gallery focused on building an internationally recognized platform for artists relevant to the Middle East region. Rahbar and her partners also expanded into non-commercial endeavors, art advisory programming as well as publications, having produced several artist books to date.