Tannaz Farsi’s art practice spans sculpture, installation, and image-making, employing serial structures to create layered interdependencies of meaning. Working with organic materials such as flowers and plants, and composing space through light, air, and language, she engages the specificity and history of images and objects to examine broader socio-political systems through both analytical and poetic frameworks.
Farsi’s work has been exhibited nationally, including at SFAC Galleries in San Francisco; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and Oregon Contemporary in Portland; Pitzer College Art Galleries in Claremont; Tacoma Art Museum; the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids; Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts; and The Sculpture Center in Cleveland among others.
At MacDowell in 2011, Farsi worked towards an installation to be exhibited at Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center in Portland, OR. During her 2025 residency, she developed a series of collages and drawings drawn from her collection of LIFE magazines, which chronicle U.S. coverage of Iranian politics and daily life from the 1950s through the 1990s. This timeframe encompasses the rise and fall of Iran’s first democratically elected prime minister, the aftermath of the 1979 Revolution, and the broader political conditions that ultimately led to her family’s migration to the United States.
