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Taraneh Hemami PDF Print E-mail
Mar 12, 2006 at 02:54 PM

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Exploring themes of displacement, preservation, and belonging, Taraneh Hemami creates site specific installations that transform personal and cultural memory into the material world creating an on-going record and documentation of specific time, place and people.

Hemami’s community projects are based on her interest in the interaction of the private with the public world. She has been creating installations and collective projects that present a multiplicity of voices to tell their stories, the process of which have often engaged a number of participants and collaborators, and created opportunities for creative exchange between artists, writers, scholars and the general public.

Hemami received her MFA from California College of the Arts in Oakland, California in 1991 and has exhibited nationally and internationally. She has been a recipient of a Creative Work Fund, a San Francisco Arts Commission’s Cultural Equity Grant, a Vision from the New California award as well as a Council for Humanities’ StoryFund for her project Hall of Reflections. Hemami has been an Artist in Residence at Montalvo Arts Center and Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She is currently Visiting Artist at the Center for Art and Public Life at the California College of the Arts.

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Spend time with Taraneh Hemami as she helps to preserve the memories of Iranian-Americans.
www.kqed.org/arts/people/spark/profile.jsp?id=9187

Last Updated ( Aug 05, 2006 at 09:45 PM )
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