Tatana Kellner
Tatana Kellner’s work encompasses installation, photography, drawing and artists’ books. She uses these media to comment on contemporary culture. Tatana is a co-founder of WSW and serves as Artistic Director, overseeing the artistic quality of all WSW programs and marketing its artists’ books and portfolios.
Her work has been featured in over 25 solo exhibitions, most recently at the CEPA Gallery, Kentler International Drawing Space, the Everson Museum, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz, NY, and SUNY Art Museum in Albany. Tatana is the recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, a Puffin Foundation Grant, NewYork Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, and a Ruth Chenven Foundation Grant. She has been awarded residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Banff Centre for the Arts, Visual Studies Workshop, Saltonstall Art Colony, Millay Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Artpark, Blue Mountain Center, Jentel, Fundación Valparaiso, Hessisches Landes Museum in Darmstadt, Germany and The Ragdale Foundation. Her work is featured in Catherine Nash’s new book, AUTHENTIC VISUAL VOICES™: Contemporary Paper and Encaustic, and Robert Hirsch’s Transformational Imagemaking, Focal Press, 2014.