Shane Taremi

I am an Iranian-American photographer and digital artist based in Cambridge, MA. In 1977 Tehran, Iran, prior to the revolution, I received my first camera and thus began my artistic journey, documenting Iranians’ ordinary lifestyle before and after self-imposed turmoil. Following a thirty-year scientific career in United States, I have now recommitted to my artistic practice and currently serves as a co-founder, curator, and resident artist at several gallery spaces in Cambridge. Celebrating urban landscapes, I reconstruct these subjects captured through my lens and use the Fibonacci sequence to aesthetically guide the coloration, patterns and compositions of my artwork, combining my scientific and artistic backgrounds. I have exhibited locally, nationally and internationally, either in solo shows i.e. Art Focus Gallery, Ipswich, MA; Hatch Street Open Studios, New Bedford, MA or in jury-selected group exhibitions i.e. Saatchi Art sponsored TOAF/New York & Chicago; Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge MA; Happenstance International Art Expo, UK; Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, New York
I describe my work as exploratory, whimsical, and surreal. My approach is influenced by works of contemporary architectural-surrealis...

1988 - Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Connecticut, CT
1990-2018 - Senior Principal Scientist/Director, Merck, NJ, PA, MA
1990-2019 - Self-taught portrait/cityscape photographer
1990-2019 - Self-taught digital artist
2015-2018 - Organizer and participating photographer, Gallery for Charity, photography
exhibition, Merck, Boston,
2015-2018 - Founding member of SnAP (Scientist now As Photographers), Merck, Boston, MA
2019-2020 - Founder, curator and resident artist at 10 Essex Gallery, Cambridge, MA

Solo Exhibition
2017 - Nov 17-19 - Hatch Street Open Studios, New Bedford, MA,
2018 - Nov 16-19 - Hatch Street Open Studios, New Bedford, MA
2019 - Nov 16-21 - Hatch Street Open Studios, New Bedford, MA
2020 - July 27 - Sept 1 - Solo Exhibition, Art Focus Gallery, Ipswich, MA


Group Exhibition
2019 - May 16-20 - Jury-selected artist, The Other Art Fair, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2019-2020 - Resident artist at 10 Essex Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2020 - Kathryn Schultz Gallery, "2020 Members Prize Show" (juror Lisa Crossman), Cambridge Art Association, MA
2020 - Apr 2-May 31 - “Touchy Feely” organized by Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2020 - Oct 2-12 - Happenstance International Art Expo, Scarborough Arts Foundation, UK
2020 - Oct 3-Dec 31 - Cambridge Art Open Studios, Cambridge, MA
2020 - Nov 4–Dec 17 - Kathryn Schultz Gallery, "RED" (juror Layla Bermeo, Curator@MFA), Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge MA