Tannaz Farsi


Tannaz Farsi is an Iranian-American visual artist living and working in Oregon. 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.
Farsi has had solo exhibitions at the Linfield Gallery at Linfield College ; Pitzer Art Galleries ; Disjecta Contemporary Art Center ; Delaware Center for Contemporary Art ; Ohge Ltd ; The Barron and Elin Gordon Galleries, ODU University ; and, Sculpture Center. Group exhibitions venues include: 1708 Gallery ; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art ; Urban Institute of Contemporary Art ; Tacoma Art Museum ; at Southern Oregon University ; and, Gallery Homeland and PDX Film Festival.
Farsi has received artist residencies at Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Ucross Foundation, MacDowell Colony 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 and was also a Hallie Ford Fellow in the Visual Arts in 2014.
In 2019, Tannaz Farsi was featured in an exhibit titled "Part and Parcel" at the San Francisco Arts Commission main gallery.