Taraneh Hemami
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Taraneh Hemami is an interdisciplinary visual artist based out of San Francisco, CA. In May 2007, her solo exhibition Most Wanted[1] opened at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Born in Iran, Hemami received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 1991 and has exhibited regularly at national and international venues. Influenced by Persian art, architecture and poetry, her multi disciplinary works explore the complex cultural politics of exile through personal and community projects and installations. She has received awards from the Creative Work Fund, the San Francisco Arts Commission, California Council for the Humanities, San Francisco Foundation and the James Irvine Foundation. She has been an Artist in Residencies at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Montalvo Center for the Arts, California Art Council, The Lab and most recently at the Center for Public Life at the California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA.
She received a 2007 Fellowship and Residency at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California, and was nominated for both a 2007 Fleishhaker Foundation Eureka Award (San Francisco, CA.) as well as for the Headlands' Center for the Arts Bridge Residency. (Sausalito, CA.)
