Dante M. Pirouz

Dante Pirouz is an award-winning artist based in rural Michigan whose work celebrates the colors and hues of the sky, field, and waterways of the Great Lakes region of Michigan. A transplant from Southern California to Michigan, Dante paints vibrant views into the golden prairie fields, crimson and cream clouds and the shimmering Great Lakes in an abstract expressionist style. Dante recently won “Best of Show - Grand Champion” in the Fine Arts category in 2021 and also presented her work in September, 2021at the Superfine Art Fair (Wo)man Show on 5th Avenue in New York City, at Saatchi Art’s The Other Art Fair in Chicago in April, 2022 and Art Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico in July, 2022. While Dante’s parents were both artistic - her mom was a makeup artist for Estee Lauder and her dad was an actor, Dante spent the first half of her career in corporate life - first as a business development executive in Asia and Europe and then as a professor with a PhD in cognitive neuroscience and consumer behavior at major business schools including Wharton, Ivey and Broad. Dante uses her training in neuroscience and cognitive science to create imagery that has been shown in research to activate neural focus and awareness. What began as a project to create large-scale paintings to cover the bare walls of rental properties, blossomed into an art business that began to get the attention of collectors and buyers online and at art shows. Dante now works as a full-time artist in her studio in Almont, Michigan in the bucolic rural countryside of central Michigan. "My mission is to create visuals that evoke a sense of joy, calm, and focus no matter what is going on at the moment.” Find her work at www.dantepirouzart.com and on Instagram: @dantepirouzart.