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T a r a n e h H e m a m i Taraneh Hemami is a San Francisco painter, installation, and conceptual artist whose work has been exhibited in museum, non-profit and gallery venues since 1992. She was born in Tehran, Iran and moved to the USA to study art in 1978. She received a BFA from University of Oregon in Eugene in 1981 and a MFA with distinction from California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California in 1991. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Her work has been the subject of several scholarly essays and has been reviewed in publications including Artpapers, Artweek, San Jose Mercury News, New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and Mix Magazine. Taraneh is a 1995 recipient of the New Langton artist Project Grant, a 2000 recipient of a Creative Work Fund Grant from the Haas Foundations, and a 2001 recipient of a Cultural Equity Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. She has been an Artist in Residence at Villa Montalvo and the SoundLabas well as at Persian Center through a California Arts Council Grant and has taught at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. Most recently, her work has been seen in The Word Room at the Janalyn Hanson White Gallery at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, IA- Telling Time at the Magnus Museum in Berkeley, California- Mirror of the Invisible at Robert V. Fullerton Museum in San Bernardino, California- Trans/planting at A Space in Toronto,Canada- Beyond Boundaries at Worth Ryder gallery at UC Berkeley and Selections 2000 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California. She has had solo exhibitions at the Lab and the SF Moma Artist's Gallery in San Francisco. In September of 2002 she will exhibit Hall of Reflections at the San Francisco Arts Commission gallery in San Francisco, California. info: taranehh@earthlink.net