| Tannaz Farsi | |
| Birth Place: | Tehran, Pahlavi Iran |
| Alma Mater: | West Virginia University, Ohio University |
| Occupation: | Visual artist, educator |
| Website: | Official website |
Tannaz Farsi (born 1974)[1] is an Iranian-born American multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. Farsi is an Associate Professor of sculpture at the University of Oregon. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.[2] [3]
Tannaz Farsi was born in 1974 in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran.[4] 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);[5] the Barron and Elin Gordon Galleries, Old Dominion University; Ohge Ltd, Seattle (2009); Delaware Center for Contemporary Art (2010);[6] Disjecta (2011);[7] Pitzer College Art Galleries (2013);[8] and Linfield College (2017).[9]
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;[10] Gallery Homeland, Portland, Oregon; and the PDX Film Festival. She participated in the 2016 Portland Biennial at Oregon Contemporary.[11]
Farsi has been awarded artist-in-residencies at Djerassi Artists Residency, Ucross Foundation, MacDowell Colony,[12] and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. In 2014, she was a Hallie Ford Fellow in the Visual Arts, through the Ford Family Foundation.[13] [3]
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.[14]