Taraneh Hemami

Taraneh Hemami engages in diverse strategies including installation, object and media productions, collective and participatory projects to explore themes of displacement, preservation, and representation. Examining the careful crafting of images as propagated for power and political gain, Taraneh's recent explorations become commentaries on tools of manipulation and persuasion used across nations and histories. She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Creative Work Fund, San Francisco Arts Commission, California Council for the Humanities, James Irvine Foundation, Kala Art Institute, Christensen Fund and the Fleishhacker Foundation. She has exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Intersection for the Arts, The Lab, San Francisco Arts Commission, and participated in the 6th Sharjah Biennial. She holds a MFA in Painting from California College for the Arts, 1991.