Farideh Lashai

Farideh Lashai
فریده لاشایی
Farideh Lashai in 2009
Born1944 (1944)
Rasht, Iran
DiedFebruary 24, 2013(2013-02-24) (aged 68–69)
Tehran, Iran
EducationAcademy of Fine Arts Vienna
OccupationsPainter, printmaker, video artist, translator, writer
Known forPainting

Farideh Lashai (Persian: فریده لاشایی, romanized: Farideh Lāshāyī; 1944 – February 24, 2013) was an Iranian painter, printmaker, and video artist.[1] She was also a writer and translator. Her foremost book is Shal Bamu. She is renowned for her abstract contemporary paintings, which are a combination of traditional and contemporary views of nature.

Life

Farideh Lashai was born in Rasht, Iran.[2] After finishing high school, she went to Germany. After studying in the school of translation in Munich, she studied decorative arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.[3] She then worked for two years in Reidel glassware and crystal company.[4][5]

Her paintings combined the traditional art with contemporary art, including techniques deriving from late 17th century northern Europe. The traditions of Paul Cézanne, and those of the Far East are present in her works, and yet her works are considered to have a contemporary view of nature. Her works are considered a reflection inner insight and a perception of the soul of nature. She never intended to paint the details, but instead to create a symbol and vague understanding of nature, so that they would have the feeling of nature in them.

Alongside Farah Ossouli and Gizella Varga Sinai, in the late 1990s, Lashai co-founded Dena Group, an artist collective composed of 12 Iranian female painters.[6]

At the age of 68, after a long period of dealing with cancer, she died in Jam hospital in Tehran.[4][7]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1968, Gallerie Duomo, Milan, Italy
  • 1968, Studio Rosenthal, Selb, Germany
  • 1973, Seyhoon Gallery, Tehran, Iran
  • 1974, Tehran Gallery, Tehran, Iran
  • 1976, Tehran Gallery, Tehran, Iran
  • 1977, Cultural Center of the National Iranian Oil Company, Khoozestan, Iran
  • 1984, Clark Gallery, Bakersfield, California, USA,
  • 1987, Gallery Demenga, Basel, Switzerland
  • 1987, National Museum of Fine Arts, La Vallette, Malta
  • 1987, Classic Gallery, Tehran, Iran,
  • 1987, Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
  • 1988, Libertas Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 1988, Gallery Demenga, Basel, Switzerland,
  • 1988, Mono County Arts Council Gallery at Sierra Center Mall, Mammoth Lakes, California, U.S.[5]
  • 1990, University of California, Berkeley, California, Berkeley, U.S.
  • 1990, Hill Gallery, London, England,
  • 1992, Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran,
  • 1993, Gallery Aum Hufeisen, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 1994, Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
  • 1995, Gallery Nouste Henric, Pau, France
  • 1996, Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran,
  • 1997, Gallery Chateau Lascours, Laudun, France
  • 1998, Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran,
  • 2005, Mah Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
  • 2016, Farideh Lashai Retrospective, Sharjah Art Foundation, Bait Al Serkal, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; curated by Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi[8][9]
  • 2017, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain[1]

Group exhibitions

  • 1968, International Young Artists, Ostend, Belgium[10]
  • 1971, International Exhibition of Tehran (as a member of the Austrian Pavilion), Tehran, Iran
  • 1973, Iranian Women Artists International Exhibition of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
  • 1975, Four Women Artists Exhibition, Iran-America Society, Tehran, Iran,
  • 1978, International Exhibition, Basel, Switzerland
  • 2016, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran[11]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "The Museo del Prado displays the last work by the Iranian artist Farideh Lashai". ArtDaily.com. August 14, 2017. Retrieved 2026-03-31.
  2. ↑ "Iranian contemporary artist Farideh Lashai dies at 68". Payvand.com. February 25, 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-03-07. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
  3. ↑ Tsai, Sylvia. "Farideh Lashai, Iranian Artist, Dies at 68". ArtAsiaPacific. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
  4. 1 2 "فریده لاشایی درگذشت" [Farideh Lashai passed away]. خبرگزاری ایلنا (www.ilna.ir) (in Persian). 2013-02-24. Retrieved 2026-04-01.
  5. 1 2 "Middle Eastern artist's work shown in Mammoth". The Review-Herald. September 14, 1989. p. 27. Retrieved 2026-04-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Dena exhibitions". Sharjah Art Foundation. Archived from the original on September 25, 2020. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
  7. ↑ "Farideh Lashai". Iran Chamber Society. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
  8. ↑ "Farideh Lashai, Exhibition 12 March—14 May 2016". Sharjah Art Foundation. Archived from the original on June 20, 2017.
  9. ↑ Vasvani, Bansie (May 9, 2016). "An Iranian Artist Who Found a Form of Resistance in Nature". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2026-04-01.
  10. ↑ Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ "The Country Blossoms (Mostly) With The End of Sactions". The Toronto Star. March 27, 2016. p. 28. Retrieved 2026-04-01 – via Newspapers.com.
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