Tannaz Hosseini Lahiji’s art seeks to express the hidden chasm between energy and being, the fundamental epistemology and universal aesthetic which binds together all that which is enduring in philosophy, art and spirit.
Born in Tehran, Iran in 1978—the year of the Iranian Revolution—Tannaz Hosseini Lahiji was literally thrust into an artist’s life from her first days. Her father, the elder Lahiji, was a renowned Iranian master.
Lahiji began painting in earnest at age 10, painting traditional Iranian scenes and classic motifs, quickly winning tremendous acclaim as a prodigy. She had her first gallery exhibit in Tehran at age 14. Lahiji completed her preparatory fine arts training at the University of Fine Arts in Tehran at the age of 19. From 1995 to 2004, Lahiji taught fine arts at the Sepideh Studio, a national centre for design. From 2001 to 2003, Lahiji also directed the Jahannama Gallery, the gallery of the museum at the Palace of the former Shah of Iran.
Lahiji began painting in earnest at age 10, painting traditional Iranian scenes and classic motifs, quickly winning tremendous acclaim as a prodigy. She had her first gallery exhibit in Tehran at age 14. Lahiji completed her preparatory fine arts training at the University of Fine Arts in Tehran at the age of 19. From 1995 to 2004, Lahiji taught fine arts at the Sepideh Studio, a national centre for design. From 2001 to 2003, Lahiji also directed the Jahannama Gallery, the gallery of the museum at the Palace of the former Shah of Iran.
Tannaz completed her undergraduate studies in fine arts from Azad University in 2004, where she also taught anatomy for painting. Tannaz defended her thesis titled “The Correlation Between Art, Color and Spirit in Human Energy Fields”, summa cum laude. Exhibited in over twenty galleries in Iran, Afghanistan, and London, Lahiji sold over one hundred major paintings in the time period 1995 to 2004.
In 2004, Lahiji was recruited to Florence, Italy to pursue a fellowship and graduate arts training at the L.A.B.A., the Open Academy of Fine Arts. At L.A.B.A., Lahiji completed a one-year master course in painting, followed by a one-year course in sculpture at the world-famous Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Since 2007, Lahiji has worked as an apprentice under the supervision of Prof. Massimo Innocenti, with whom she also teaches a course in painting techniques at L.A.B.A.
Since moving to Italy, Lahiji quickly established herself in the ultra-competitive Florentine art world as a versatile and highly original iconoclast, applying modern techniques and processes and experimenting with divers media, including woodcarving, oil, fresco, body painting, mosaic, terra cotta, porcelain, watercolor, stained-glass, and computer graphics. The breadth of Lahiji’s knowledge and techniques is exceeded only by the vast scope of her subject matter.
Lahiji’s current work explores themes ranging from the deepest ontological puzzles to scenes echoing what Foucault calls “the theatre of the absurd” of contemporary life, to the ubiquitous and mundane, but nevertheless profound, portrait. She has been hailed by critics as “indefatigable proof that the greatest art springs from our most shocking revolutions,” “strikingly beautiful, in soul and spirit” and by contemporaries as simply, “genius”.
Lahiji’s work is currently exhibited in galleries in Italy, the U.S., and Russia. In addition to painting, Lahiji also performs in a traditional Iranian musical ensemble based in Florence, Italy.
-For further information, please contact her agent, Golnoosh Hakimdavar, Ph.D., at gh265@cornell.edu or 001-949-303-9058.
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