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

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of Art at th
University of Oregon
She lives in

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, Oregon.

Education

Farsi received her BFA degree (2004) from

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; and her MFA degree (2007) from

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Career and Work

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;

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, Tacoma; the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids; Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington;

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Schneider Museum of Art
at Southern Oregon University; and Th
Sculpture Center
Cleveland. She has been granted residencies a
Rauschenberg Residency

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among others. Her work has been supported through grants and awards from th
Oregon Arts Commission
National Endowment for the Arts,

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, 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

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's main gallery.

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Farsi, Tannaz 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

Education

Career and Work

See also

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