
Hadi Tabatabai
About
Hadi Tabatabai is an American artist from Iranian origins living and working in San Francisco.
Hadi Tabatabai works, minimal and singular, are an invitation to peace and to travel. Possessing a highly personal language, he differs technically and visually from minimalist artists even if his geometric grids recall those of the artist Agnes Martin. His blue drawings, emblematic, are an obvious reference to the artist Yves Klein who said « All colors bring forth associations of concrete ideas while blue evokes at most the sea and the sky. » An entire life in the United States has made this contemporary artist of Iranian origin a painter and a sculptor endowed with a technique unequalled in Iran. His works are in several prestigious public and private collections including those of the artists Agnes Martin and Luc Tuymans.
Collections
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS :
ACHENBACH FOUNDATION, SAN FRANCISCO
ASIAN ART MUSEUM, SAN FRANCISCO
BERKELEY ART MUSEUM, BERKELEY
BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART, AUSTIN
BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM, BRUNSWICK
COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, WATERVILLE
CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM, HONOLULU
DAVIS MUSEUM WELLESLEY COLLEGE, WELLESLEY
DELAWARE ART MUSEUM, WILMINGTON
LANNAN FOUNDATION, SANTA FE
NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART, SANTA FE
NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY, LAS CRUCES
PROGRESSIVE ART COLLECTION, MAYFIELD
RUBIN CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, EL PASO
SFMOMA, SAN FRANCISCO
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS :
AGNES MARTIN, NEW YORK
LLOYD COTSEN, LOS ANGELES
LUC TUYMANS, ANTWERP
MAHSSA TALAI, PARIS
WERNER KRAMARSKY, NEW YORK
Acquisition
Collection Mahssa Talaï
Acquired in 2019
Untitled, 2015
Pencil and laser on paper
28 x 25 cm
Unique