Tarrah Krajnak
Tarrah Krajnak (born 1979) is an American artist who works with photography, performance, and poetry. In 2020 she received the Lange-Taylor Prize. Krajnak's work is held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pinault Collection, Paris and Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Tarrah Krajnak
- Born
- 1979 · Lima.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- university teacher · photographer · performance artist
- Fields
- fine-art photography · performance art · photography teacher
- Education
- Ohio Wesleyan University · University of Notre Dame
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Languages
- English
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Tarrah Krajnak (born 1979) is an American artist who works with photography, performance, and poetry. In 2020 she received the Lange-Taylor Prize. Krajnak's work is held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pinault Collection, Paris and Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
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Tarrah Krajnak studied at Ohio Wesleyan University and University of Notre Dame. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is fine-art photography, performance art and photography teacher. Employment is recorded with University of California, Los Angeles. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.
Krajnak was born in an orphanage in Lima, Peru in 1979 and adopted by Slovak Americans as a baby. > Tarrah Krajnak currently works as an associate professor in the UCLA department of art as of July 1, 2024.
Group exhibitions
Group exhibitions
• Image/Counterimage: Tarrah Krajnak, Valie Export, Sanja Iveković, Ana Mendieta, Carrie Mae Weems, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, April–August 2023 • Regards de Femmes = Women's Perspectives, Fondation A Stichting, Belgium, September–December 2022 • Energy: Sparks from the Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, May 2023 – January 2024 includes Krajnak's 1979: Contact Negatives • Body to Body, Histories of Photography, Centre Pompidou, Paris, September 2023 – March 2024
Publications
• 1979: Contact Negatives. Zine. Edition of 75 copies. • El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan = The Garden of Forking Paths. DAIS, 2021. With text by Krajnak and Kavior Moon.. Edition of 175 copies. • Master Rituals II: Weston's Nudes. TBW, 2022.. Edition of 500 copies.
Collections
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Krajnak's work is held in the following permanent collections: • Centre Pompidou, Paris • Museum of Modern Art, New York • Pinault Collection, Paris • Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Awards
• 2020: Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University • 2024: Guggenheim Fellowship
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- 1.Tarrah Krajnak – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- 2.Ashby, Chloë. Eruptions, explosions and a sexually explicit hoover: V&A Photography Centre review. The Guardian. May 22, 2023.
- 3.Photograph. Victoria & Albert Museum. September 26, 2019.
- 4.UCLA Arts: School of the Arts and Architecture.
- 5.Image/Counterimage: Tarrah Krajnak, VALIE EXPORT, Sanja Iveković, Ana Mendieta, Carrie Mae Weems - Museum Ludwig, Cologne. www.museum-ludwig.de.
- 6.Image/Counterimage: Tarrah Krajnak, VALIE EXPORT, Sanja Iveković, Ana Mendieta, Carrie Mae Weems. artguide.artforum.com.
- 7.Regards de Femmes. Fondation A Stichting.
- 8.Cleaner's cupboard becomes a walk-in camera obscura: hidden backrooms of London's V&A transformed into new photography centre. The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. April 24, 2023.
- 9.Smyth, Diane. Behind the scenes at the V&A's new Photography Centre. www.1854.photography.
- 10.Wullschläger, Jackie. V&A Photography Centre — from steamships to deepfake drag. Financial Times. May 31, 2023.
- 11.Lloyd-Smith, Harriet. V&A's completed Photography Centre opens with flames, rockets and snake-like Hoovers. wallpaper.com. May 23, 2023.
- 12.Aesthetica Magazine - V&A Photography Centre: World-leading Collections. Aesthetica Magazine.
- 13.Corps à corps. Photographic Stories exhibition.
- 14.2020 Lange-Taylor Prize: Tarrah Krajnak, "El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan" Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. documentarystudies.duke.edu.
- 15.Tarrah Krajnak – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- 16.Recherche. Centre Pompidou.
- 17.Tarrah Krajnak. Centre Pompidou.
- 18.Tarrah Krajnak MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art.
- 19.CHRONORAMA. Pinault Collection. www.pinaultcollection.com.
- 20.Search Results V&A Explore the Collections. Victoria and Albert Museum.
- 21.Tarrah Krajnak acquisition • V&A Blog. December 5, 2022.
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