Bio
Moti Tavassoli is a Persian-American artist based in Los Angeles. With a background in architecture and industrial design, she has a passion for designing instances of visual and tactile quality that evoke spiritual and emotional experiences. Her artwork in painting, sculpture and installation is no different.
Having grown up in Tehran and LA, Moti belongs to both and neither. Two wildly different cultures, two vast metropolitan cities with infinite ways to feel rootless, she finds safety and belonging in nature. Her work, filled with botanical motifs, are stories of places where borders dissolve, natural laws bend, and the material world becomes fluid and symbolic.
She is an alum of the Ellsworth Artist Residency with Art Share LA. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions in Los Angeles and New York, and featured in art fairs in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Her paintings live in private collections across Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Tucson.
Contact
motimakes@gmail.com
Group Exhibitions
2025
FootPrints, Object and Place, Los Angeles, CA
Alumni Gallery Exhibition #3, Art Share L.A., Los Angeles, CA
When Worlds Collide, Cannibal Flowers and Lucky Cat Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ellsworth Artist Residency Alumni Exhibit, Art Share L.A., Los Angeles, CA
Echo in the Garden, Echo Park Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Emerge, Raven Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024
FootPrints, Object and Place, Los Angeles, CA
Collective II, Visionary Projects Gallery, New York, NY
Wine + Art Benefit, CASA of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Female Art Night, SAB Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Winter Show, Pershing Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
By Land or Sea, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
Summer Show I, Studio.Gallery.LB, Long Beach, CA
Achievements
2025
Ellsworth Artist Residency, Los Angeles, CA
UCLA TeenArch Instructor, Los Angeles, CA
