Tala Madani

Tala Madani
Born	1981 (age 35–36) Tehran, Iran
Alma mater	Oregon State University, Yale University

Tala Madani (born 1981 in Tehran, Iran) is an artist known for her paintings, drawings and stop-motion animations whose recurrent motifs include men, often made vulnerable, which gives the effect of reversing the conventionally objectified female body in painting. She is currently based in Los Angeles, California.

In 1994 she moved to Oregon. Madani graduated from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon in 2004 with a bachelor of arts degree in Political Science and Visual Arts. In 2006, she graduated from Yale University School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut with an Master of Fine Arts in Painting.

Her painting style is loose, incorporating gestural brushstrokes into figurative narrative scenes that often have a bizarre, fetishistic quality to them. The men in her paintings often appear to be ridiculed, clownish, dominated by perfumated space, Brechtian. The loose brushstrokes and flat pictorial space give an almost cartoon quality to her paintings.

In 2013 she was part of the lawsuit, Independence Collection, LLC v. Tala Madani. While attending Oregon State University, Madani had a storage locker that was filled will 114 of her paintings, that was later found at a storage locker auction and purchased by Independence Collection, LLC.

Madani's work was included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.

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).

She is represented by Pilar Corrias Gallery in London and David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles.

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