Spark Artist

Sculpture & installation‍

Tannaz Farsi’s art practice spans sculpture, installation and image-making, employing serial structures to examine interdependencies through which meaning is produced. Working with organic materials such as flowers and plants, and shaping space through light, air and language, she engages the specific histories and material conditions of objects and images as a means of addressing broader social and political systems through both analytical and poetic frameworks. Farsi’s research draws on historical cultural objects, feminist histories and theories of displacement, particularly as they emerge through the enduring effects of colonialism and authoritarian interventions into daily life. Her work traces these interconnected histories to complicate the network of relations shaping memory, history and territory. Farsi’s work has been exhibited at SFAC Galleries, San Francisco; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland; JSMA, Portland; Linfield Gallery, McMinnville; Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont; Oregon Contemporary, Portland; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma; the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids; Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington; The Sculpture Center, Cleveland; and most recently at the 2026 Converge 45 Triennial: Here to you Now, curated by Lumi Tan. She has been awarded residencies at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, MacDowell Colony and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Her work has been supported through grants and awards from the Oregon Arts Commission, University of Oregon and The Ford Family Foundation. She received a Hallie Ford Fellowship in 2014 and was named the 28^th Bonnie Bronson Fellow in 2019. Farsi lives and works in Eugene, where she is on the faculty at the University of Oregon and serves as co-chair of the sculpture department.