Tannaz Farsi

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]

Tannaz Farsi
Born1974 (age 48–49)
Tehran, Pahlavi Iran
Alma materWest Virginia University,
Ohio University
Occupation(s)Visual artist, educator
WebsiteOfficial website

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]

See also

References
  1. "Tannaz Farsi". CONVERGE 45. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  2. Sculptor Tannaz Farsi, Oregon Art Beat, Season 17, Episode 1707, PBS, retrieved 2022-12-16
  3. Graves, Jen (December 8, 2009). "In/Visible: Tannaz Farsi: Art, Iranian Revolution, and Forgetting". The Stranger. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  4. "Department of Art". University of Oregon. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  5. Tannaz Farsi : the points of departure, new & selected work : Linfield Gallery March 22-April 29, 2017. Zarkovich, Josephine,, Dalton, Trinie,, Oliver, Anne-Marie,, Snyder, Stephanie,, Kennedy, Kristan,, Linfield Gallery. McMinnville, Or. 2017. ISBN 9780692935699. OCLC 1022191033.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  6. "2007-2008 Exhibition Calendar". The Sculpture Center. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  7. "Galleries: Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts". The News Journal. 2010-08-04. p. 108. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  8. Poole, Sabina (2011). "A & AA Blog". University of Oregon. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  9. "Pitzer College Art Galleries". Pitzer College. 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  10. "The Points of Departure A solo exhibition of new work by Tannaz Farsi". Linfield College. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  11. "Tannaz Farsi's Territory". Southern Oregon University. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  12. "Portland Biennial". Portland Biennial. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  13. "Index of MacDowell Fellows". The MacDowell Colony. Archived from the original on 26 May 2009. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  14. "Tannaz Farsi, Hallie Ford Fellow in the Visual Arts 2014". The Family Ford Foundation. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  15. "Forty Years After the Revolution, Iranian-American Artists Look Back". 2019-03-06.


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