Tala Madani

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Tala Madani
BornDecember 1981 (age 42)
Tehran, Iran
NationalityIranian
Alma mater Oregon State University,
Yale University
Spouse
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(m. 2015)​

Tala Madani (born December 1981) is an Iranian-born American artist, well-known for her contemporary paintings, drawings, and animations. She lives in Los Angeles, California. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Madani was born in Tehran, Iran in December 1981. [3] From the age of seven, she studied calligraphy and painting. [4] In 1994 she moved to Oregon. [5] Madani graduated from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon in 2004 with a BA degree in political science and visual arts. She did an internship in Berlin in 2003 with the German Council for Foreign Affairs and worked with an expert on Iranian affairs. [6] In 2006, she graduated from Yale University School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut with an MFA degree in painting. [7]

Work

Madani is known for her use of cartoonish and exaggerated sexual imageries in her paintings. [7] Her work often focuses on the relationship between the adult and child. [8] Many of her works contain images of men in traditionally childlike positions, playing with their anuses, bodily fluids, and penises. The paintings utilize satirical humor, and are very loose in their execution. [8] [9] Madani works to capture the moment an idea emerges in sketchbooks and she translates this by using decisive brushwork and strong lines in her paintings, [9] and is a visual example of real world impulses that get repressed. [2] In 2008 Madani began incorporating animation into her work, as an attempt to bring the painting to action.

Madani's work was included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. [2] Awards have included Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (2013), Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting (2013), the De Volkskrant Art Award (2012), Pinchuk Art Centre (2012), the Van den Berch van Heemstede Stichting Fellowship (2008), and the Kees Verwey Fellowship (2007). [10] [11] [12] [13] In September 2022, the first North American survey of Madani's work opened at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles. [14]

Madani's work is found in the public museum collections of Hammer Museum, [15] Cornell Fine Arts Museum, [16] Whitney Museum of American Art, [17] Tate museum, [18] among others.

Personal life

In 2015, Madani married Nathaniel Mellors, an English contemporary artist and musician, in Los Angeles. They have two children. [3]

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  10. ↑ Lark, Jasmine (2014). "Tala Madani". WideWalls. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
  11. ↑ "2013 Biennial Awards". The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. 2013. Archived from the original on 4 June 2019. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
  12. ↑ Russeth, Andrew (2014-06-13). "Here Are the 30 Winners of the 2013 Tiffany Awards". Observer. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
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  14. ↑ "21 things our arts critics can't wait to do, see and listen to this fall in California". Los Angeles Times. 2022-08-30. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
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