Farah Ossouli

Farah Ossouli
فرح اصولی
Farah Ossouli
Farah Ossouli in 2008
Born (1953-08-10) 10 August 1953
Zanjan, Iran
Other nameFarahnaz Ossouli
OccupationPainter
Spouse
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(m. 1975; died 2020)​
Children2
WebsiteOfficial website

Farah Ossouli (Persian: فرح اصولی, born 10 August 1953 in Zanjan, Iran) is an Iranian painter, based in Tehran.[1] She is known for her modern interpretation of Persian miniature. Often her work draws on issues related to women's life, Persian poetry, and classical western art.

Biography

Ossouli graduated in 1971 from the Girls' School of Fine Arts, Tehran.[2] Ossouli graduated in 1977 with a B.A. degree in graphic design from University of Tehran.[2] In 1975, Ossouli married Khosrow Sinai.[3]

Her work is often created in gouache and watercolor and features subjects found in Persian miniature painting set in contemporary themes, subjects may include women, men, grapes, birds, flowers, grapes, among other things.[4][5] Her work replaced the text often found in traditional miniature painting with blocks of color and the scale of the figures is manipulated.[6]

She has chaired the 6th Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial, held in 2003.[7]

Her work has been collected in many public art collections including, the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[8] Art Gallery of Western Australia,[2] Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[9] among others. She has held solo exhibitions in the United States, Europe, Iran, and participated in group exhibition in many other countries.

Dena Group

In 2001, Ossouli and Gizella Varga Sinai founded the Dena Group in Tehran. The collective brought together twelve professional Iranian women artists from different generations and artistic backgrounds. Rather than promoting a common style, the group sought to provide a platform through which women artists could present their individual work both in Iran and internationally.[10] Dena organised exhibitions in Iran as well as in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.[11]

Among the venues at which the group presented its work were the Palace of Nations, the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva; the European Parliament in Brussels; and the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz.[12][10]

Bibliography

Monograph

  • Farah Ossouli: Burning Wings; Necmi Sönmez, Sussan Babaie, 2023, Skira, ISBN 8857245578

Other works

References

  1. ↑ "Farah Ossouli on Instagram". Instagram. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "Farah Ossouli Biography". Artnet.com. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  3. ↑ Kav, Fatemeh (14 January 2011). "A family affair: The story of the Sinai family". Mashallah News. Archived from the original on 17 January 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2019. their dad, film maker Khosrow Sinai, and his two wives, Farah Ossouli and Gizella Varga-Sinai,
  4. ↑ Rezapoor, Manijeh (6 July 2019). ""The Moon and the Sun" up at Tehran gallery reflects mesmerizing prints of Ossouli paintings". Tehran Times. Archived from the original on 7 July 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  5. ↑ "Art Gallery in Perth Acquires Farah Ossouli's Miniature Paintings". Financial Tribune. 5 August 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  6. ↑ Ekhtiar, Maryam; Sardar, Marika (October 2004). "Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Modern and Contemporary Art in Iran". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 13 December 2019. artists like Farah Ossouli (born 1953) working in Iran. She has chosen the medium of Persian miniature painting as the point of departure for her art. In her paintings, Ossuli replaces the spaces for text with fields of color and manipulates the scale of the figures, many of which are women.
  7. ↑ "6th Contemporary Painting Biennial in December". Tehran Times. 19 July 2003. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  8. ↑ "Collection: Rival, 2011, Farah Ossouli". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 30 June 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  9. ↑ "Collection search: Michelangelo, Ahmad and I". Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 10 November 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  10. 1 2 "Dena – Aktuelle Malerei aus dem Iran". Ludwig Museum Koblenz (in German). Retrieved 11 August 2026.
  11. ↑ "Dena: 12 Contemporary Iranian Women Artists". Asia Art Archive. Retrieved 11 August 2026.
  12. ↑ "TMoCA to show documentaries on Farah Ossouli, Gizella Varga-Sinai, Farzaneh Asadi". Tehran Times. 16 August 2025. Retrieved 11 August 2026.
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