Tannaz Farsi

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Tannaz Farsi
Born1974 (age 4849)
Tehran, Pahlavi Iran
Alma mater West Virginia University,
Ohio University
Occupation(s)Visual artist, educator
Website Official website

Tannaz Farsi (born 1974) [1] is an Iranian-born American multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. [2] Farsi is an Associate Professor of sculpture at the University of Oregon. She lives in Eugene, Oregon. [3] [4]

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Biography

Tannaz Farsi was born in 1974 in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran. [1] [5] Farsi received her BFA degree (2004) from West Virginia University; and her MFA degree (2007) from Ohio University.

Farsi has had solo exhibitions at the Linfield Gallery at SculptureCenter (2008); [6] the Barron and Elin Gordon Galleries, Old Dominion University; Ohge Ltd, Seattle (2009); [3] Delaware Center for Contemporary Art (2010); [7] Disjecta (2011); [8] Pitzer College Art Galleries (2013); [9] and Linfield College (2017). [10]

Farsi has had group exhibitions include at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan; Tacoma Art Museum; Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University; [11] Gallery Homeland, Portland, Oregon; and the PDX Film Festival. She participated in the 2016 Portland Biennial at Oregon Contemporary. [12]

Farsi has been awarded artist-in-residencies at Djerassi Artists Residency, Ucross Foundation, MacDowell Colony, [13] and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. In 2014, she was a Hallie Ford Fellow in the Visual Arts, through the Ford Family Foundation. [14] [4]

In 2019, Farsi was featured in a group exhibit of Iranian-American artists titled, "Part and Parcel" at the San Francisco Arts Commission's main gallery. [15]

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