Born in the United States to Iranian parents, Ebtekar was raised in both Iran and the US. As a young teenager he joined the K.O.S. (Kids of Survival), working with artist Tim Rollins on collaborative artworks involving groups of urban youth. He received his BA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and in 2006 his MFA degree at Stanford. In the same year he received the San Francisco Foundation’s Murphy & Cadogan Fellowships in the Arts Award and in the same year.

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