Farideh Lashai

Farideh Lashai (; 1944 – February 24, 2013) was an Iranian painter, printmaker, and video artist. 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. 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. She then worked for two years in Reidel glassware and crystal company.

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.

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

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. 2017, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain 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