Sako Shahinian is an American illustrator whose artwork has been featured in System of a Down projects. He has also worked as drum tech for SOAD sticksman John Dolmayan.



Sako Shahinian was born in 1980 in Beirut, Lebanon to Armenian parents. From a young age he showed interest in drawing. He attended Los Angeles County High School of the Arts, where he earned the opportunity to paint the Woody Guthrie Exhibit's main mural with Adam Dryden at the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum in 1999.