Hi, I’m Dante!
About Dante M. Pirouz…
Dante M. Pirouz is an award-winning artist living in rural Michigan. Dante's artwork has received accolades early on including Grand Champion at the Goodells Fair. Her work has been exhibited at Superfine Art Fair on Fifth Avenue in New York City, The Other Art Fair by Saatchi Art in Chicago and upcoming at Art Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Dante M. Pirouz spent over half her life 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 like Wharton, Ivey and Broad. After decades of work as an international executive and business school professor, Dante Pirouz returned to a long time passion, impressionist abstract painting. Influenced by her many years of travel to far flung corners of the world including Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, China, Mexico, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia. Each of these environments have influenced her current work in color, design and view.
Trained with a PhD in cognitive psychology, Dr. Dante Pirouz has researched the impact of color and aesthetics on cognitive well-being and decision making. Her return to artistic expression is an ode to the natural environment around her in rural Michigan and from her travels around the world.
Dante is a third generation artist who integrates her training as a PhD in cognitive psychology and consumer behavior to create artwork that motivates, quiets, focuses, and soothes the mind and spirit with abstract natural scenery.
On the side, she began building her business in real estate developing and quickly discovered her love for interior design and construction. What began as a project to create a few large-scale paintings to cover the walls of the properties she was staging blossomed into an art business that began to get the attention of collectors and buyers online. One post turned into a snowball of many more posts and connections with collectors who love her eye for bright color and crisp graphics.
Dante now works full time in her studio in Almont, Michigan in an area known for its apple and peach orchards north of Detroit, Michigan.
"My mission is to create artwork that that evokes a sense of happiness, peace and focus no matter what is going on around us at the moment."
Contact me at dantepirouzart@gmail.com or find me on Instagram!