Tatana Kellner

Tatana Kellner is a visual artist whose work is rooted in social issues. She has been exhibited in numerous venues across the USA, Canada, and Europe and has had over 50 solo exhibitions. Her practice encompasses artists’ books, printmaking, papermaking, drawing, photography, and installation. 

Tatana’s work has been featured at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Fort Collins, Co, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, and Center for Photography at Woodstock, Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA, Creative Concepts in Beacon, NY, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, and District Fine Arts Gallery, Washington, DC, among others.

In 2008, she received the Puffin Foundation Grant, and in 2005, the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. Tatana is also the recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, two Photographer’s Fund Award from the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and a Ruth Chenven Foundation Grant. In 2021, she was inducted into the Hall of Champions, North American Hand Papermakers. She has been awarded residencies at The MacDowell  (three times), Yaddo, Banff Centre for the Arts, Lightwork, Visual Studies Workshop, Saltonstall Foundation, Millay Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Artpark, Blue Mountain Center, Jentel, Foundación Valparaiso, and Ragdale Foundation.

Kellner is a co-founder and past artistic director of Women’s Studio Workshop. Her work encompasses printmaking, photography, and installation. She is the author of 22 artists’ books and half of the collaborative team KaKeArt.

She was born in the Czech Republic and immigrated to the USA in 1969.

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Artist's Book Collection

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