Tannaz Farsi | |
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Born | 1974 (age 49–50) Tehran, Iran |
Alma mater | West Virginia University, Ohio University |
Occupation(s) | Visual artist, educator |
Website | Official website |
Tannaz Farsi (born 1974, Tehran) [1] is an Iranian-born American multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. [2] Farsi is a Professor of Art at the University of Oregon. She lives in Eugene, Oregon. [3] [4]
Farsi received her BFA degree (2004) from West Virginia University; and her MFA degree (2007) from Ohio University.
Tannaz Farsi’s configurations of objects and images address the complicated networks around the conception of memory, history, identity and geography. Drawing from cultural objects, feminist histories, and theories of displacement evidenced by long-standing colonialist and authoritarian interventions into daily life, her project-based works propose a different means of representation regarding non-western subjects and objects that obstruct singular and conventional means of identification.
Her work has been exhibited at venues including SFAC Galleries, San Francisco; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland; Oregon Contemporary, Portland ; Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma; the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids; Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University; [5] and The Sculpture Center, Cleveland.
She has been granted residencies at Rauschenberg Residency, Ucross Foundation, MacDowell Colony, [6] Bemis Center for Contemporary Art among others. Her work has been supported through grants and awards from the Oregon Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, University of Oregon, The Ford Family Foundation and the Bonnie Bronson Fund. 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. [7]
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