Tannaz Farsi

Tannaz Farsi is an Iranian-American visual artist living and working in Oregon.[1] Farsi received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from West Virginia University in 2004 and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Ohio University in 2007. She was born in Iran.[2]

Farsi has had solo exhibitions at the Linfield Gallery at Linfield College (McMinnville, OR);[3] Pitzer Art Galleries (Claremont, CA);[4] Disjecta Contemporary Art Center (Portland, OR);[5] Delaware Center for Contemporary Art (Wilmington, DE); Ohge Ltd (Seattle, WA);[6] The Barron and Elin Gordon Galleries, ODU University (Norfolk, VA); and, Sculpture Center (Cleveland, OH).[7] Group exhibitions venues include: 1708 Gallery (Richmond, Virginia); Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Eugene, OR); Urban Institute of Contemporary Art (Grand Rapids, Michigan); Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma, WA); Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University (Ashland, OR);[8] and, Gallery Homeland and PDX Film Festival (Portland, OR).

Farsi has received artist residencies at Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Ucross Foundation, MacDowell Colony[9] and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.

Farsi is an Associate Professor of Sculpture at the University of Oregon who participated in the 2016 Portland Biennial[10] and was also a Hallie Ford Fellow in the Visual Arts in 2014.[11][12]

In 2019, Tannaz Farsi was featured in an exhibit titled "Part and Parcel" at the San Francisco Arts Commission main gallery.[13]

References
  1. "Department of Art". University of Oregon. University of Oregon. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  2. 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.CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. "The Points of Departure A solo exhibition of new work by Tannaz Farsi". Linfield College. Linfield College. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  4. "Pitzer College Art Galleries". Pitzer College. Pitzer College. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  5. Poole, Sabina. "A & AA Blog". University of Oregon. University of Oregon. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  6. Graves, Jen. "In/Visible: Tannaz Farsi: Art, Iranian Revolution, and Forgetting". The Stranger. The Stranger. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  7. "2007-2008 Exhibition Calendar". The Sculpture Center. The Sculpture Center. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  8. "Tannaz Farsi's Territory". Southern Oregon University. Southern Oregon University. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  9. "Index of MacDowell Fellows". The MacDowell Colony. The MacDowell Colony. Archived from the original on 26 May 2009. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  10. "Portland Biennial". Portland Biennial. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  11. "Tannaz Farsi". The Family Ford Foundation. The Family Ford Foundation. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  12. "Department of Art". University of Oregon. University of Oregon. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  13. "Forty Years After the Revolution, Iranian-American Artists Look Back". 2019-03-06.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.