Taraneh Hemami works with materials of history, organizing archives of images, data, and information, weaving complementary and contradictory narratives manifested in objects, installations, and experimental collective, collaborative, and curatorial projects. Born and raised in Tehran, and living and working in San Francisco, Hemami engages in diverse strategies to examine the careful crafting of images as propagated for power and political gain and the manipulations of truth and historical facts, the fictionalized realities that have infiltrated our everyday lives. She explores themes of displacement, preservation, and representation in installations that intermingle with the spaces they occupy, complicating their identity and, at times, altering or enhancing their function. She has received awards from Creative Capital, the Creative Work Fund, the Center for Cultural Innovation, the California Council for the Humanities, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Her works have been exhibited widely, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Boghossian Foundation, and the Sharjah International Biennial.