Born in Rasht, Iran, in 1944, Farideh Lashai has practiced painting since the late 1960s. However, throughout her distnguished career, spanning over five decades, she has always juggled with varying means of expression, without recognising any frontiers that might confine her to a rigidly defined identity. While painting and visual arts are her main practices, lyricism is the reigning characteristic in her works, whether it is painting, sculpture, writing, installation or a combination of animation and painting. In 2003 her auto-fiction “The Jackal Came” was published in Iran, narrating the lives of three generation of women against the socio-political background of the Iranian society. Critics have described as a genre between painting and essay.
Her works can be found in major private and public collections such as the collections of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Demenga Public Collection in Basel, Deutsche Bank, Commerz Bank in Germany, Christie’s collection, NY and National Museum of Fine Arts, La Valetta.