Tannaz Farsi (born 1974) is an Iranian-born American multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. Farsi is an

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of sculpture at the

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. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Biography

Tannaz Farsi was born in 1974 in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

, Pahlavi Iran. Farsi received her BFA degree (2004) from

West Virginia University West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its other campuses are those of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley, Potomac State College ...

; and her MFA degree (2007) from

Ohio University Ohio University is a Public university, public research university in Athens, Ohio. The first university chartered by an Act of Congress and the first to be chartered in Ohio, the university was chartered in 1787 by the Congress of the Confeder ...

. Farsi has had solo exhibitions at the Linfield Gallery at

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(2008); the Barron and Elin Gordon Galleries,

Old Dominion University Old Dominion University (Old Dominion or ODU) is a public research university in Norfolk, Virginia. It was established in 1930 as the Norfolk Division of the College of William & Mary and is now one of the largest universities in Virginia with ...

; Ohge Ltd, Seattle (2009); Delaware Center for Contemporary Art (2010);

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(2011);

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Art Galleries (2013); and

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(2017). Farsi has had group exhibitions include at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia;

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; Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan;

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; Schneider Museum of Art at

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; Gallery Homeland, Portland, Oregon; and the PDX Film Festival. She participated in the 2016 Portland Biennial at Oregon Contemporary. Farsi has been awarded artist-in-residencies at

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, Ucross Foundation,

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, and the

Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts is located in the Old Market Historic District of downtown Omaha, Nebraska, at the corner of 12th Street and Leavenworth Street. In addition to an international artist-in-residence program, Bemis Center hosts tem ...

. In 2014, she was a Hallie Ford Fellow in the Visual Arts, through the

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. In 2019, Farsi was featured in a group exhibit of Iranian-American artists titled, "Part and Parcel" at the

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's main gallery.

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Official website
Living people American women artists Artists from Oregon Ohio University alumni University of Oregon faculty West Virginia University alumni American women academics 21st-century American women 1974 births {{US-artist-stub

Biography

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