Taller SANAA (TA – YER SAN – A) are multidisciplinary visual artists and life partners, Jessica Sabogal and Shanna Strauss. They are best known for their portraits on large scale wooden assemblages, wall installations, and works on paper, centering the sacredness of queer, trans, migrant, Black, gender expansive, indigenous people and women of color. They collaborate combining a wide range of artistic disciplines from muralism, photography and photo transfer, spray paint and stencils, to printmaking techniques that include lithography, screenprinting, and
photopolymer gravure. Both draw influence from contemporary social movements that use artistic expression as a critical form of resistance against forces that risk their erasure. Together, they create a visual language that engages viewers in conversations and questions around the
necessity and futures of indigenous healing, storytelling, and activism.

Respectively, their work has been collected and exhibited by various institutions including the National Portrait Gallery, de Young Museum, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and Library of Congress. Together, they have been commissioned by the California Endowment, the University of California, San Francisco, and the Phi Foundation to create public art installations. Taller SANAA has received the Kala Art Institute Fellowship Award and the Denbo Publishing Fellowship at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center.