Tatana Kellner
Tatana Kellner was born in Czechoslovakia, where she grew up under the communist system as a daughter of Holocaust survivors. That upbringing has shaped her as an artist and as a human being. Tatana is interested in history and memory as central to our understanding of the world.
Tatana Kellner is a visual artist who works in installation, drawing, photography, and artists’ books. She uses these media to explore the visual realm and comment on social and political issues.
Tatana has exhibited across the USA, Canada and Europe, with over 30 solo exhibitions. Her work has been selected for inclusion in Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL, the Everson Museum, University of Albany Museum, Albany, NY, Dorsky Museum, Bowdoin College, Kentler International Drawing Space, Rockland Center for the Arts, Delaware Center for Horticulture, Albany Institute for History and Art, Vassar College, Bevier Gallery, RIT, among many others.
Tatana was selected to participate in the MARK NYFA Program, is the recipient of two awards from the Puffin Foundation, the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. Additional awards include two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, two Photographer’s Fund Award from the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and Ruth Chenven Foundation Grant.
Tatana …
Tatana Kellner was born in Czechoslovakia, where she grew up under the communist system as a daughter of Holocaust survivors. That upbringing has shaped her as an artist and as a human being. Tatana is interested in history and memory as central to our understanding of the world.
Tatana Kellner is a visual artist who works in installation, drawing, photography, and artists’ books. She uses these media to explore the visual realm and comment on social and political issues.
Tatana has exhibited across the USA, Canada and Europe, with over 30 solo exhibitions. Her work has been selected for inclusion in Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL, the Everson Museum, University of Albany Museum, Albany, NY, Dorsky Museum, Bowdoin College, Kentler International Drawing Space, Rockland Center for the Arts, Delaware Center for Horticulture, Albany Institute for History and Art, Vassar College, Bevier Gallery, RIT, among many others.
Tatana was selected to participate in the MARK NYFA Program, is the recipient of two awards from the Puffin Foundation, the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. Additional awards include two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, two Photographer’s Fund Award from the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and Ruth Chenven Foundation Grant.
Tatana has been awarded residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Banff Centre for the Arts, Light Work, Visual Studies Workshop, Saltonstall Art Colony, I-Park, Millay Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Artpark, Blue Mountain Center, Jentel, Foundacion Valparaiso, Hessisches LandesMuseum in Darmstadt, Germany, Ucross, Haystack and Ragdale Foundation.
Tatana is a co-founder of Women’s Studio Workshop, an artist’s workspace providing opportunities and support to women artists from around the world.
Courtesy the Artist
Tate Library, London, UK
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
New York Public Library, NY
Yale University Library, New Haven, CT
Maryland Institute of Art Library, Baltimore, MD
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Walker Arts Center Library, Minneapolis, MN
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Virginia Commonwealth University Library, Richmond, NY
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Massachusetts College of Art Library, Boston, MA
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
University of Delaware Library, Newark, DE
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN