In her artistic practice, Tania (1986) explores the limits of the portrait genre. She actualizes the old pictorial tradition in new systems of knowledge, in fundamentally different worldview perspectives. The subject of her research is relationships.
Tania often refers to a paired or group portrait, and even in a solitary image she accentuates the presence of the silent interlocutor outside the canvas. Tania makes portraits in which there is always a reference to the other. Because only in another’s gaze, through a prism, can the subject be assembled into a coherent image. Because otherwise a portrait would be an empty shell, a set of individual external features.
The living image holds on to this reciprocity from outside, as if outside the gaze, outside the touch or coexistence, the subject would disintegrate, and with it the whole picture would go astray. In this way she make sense of one of the most traumatic discoveries with which the history of the twentieth century is stitched, a discovery at the intersection of psychoanalysis and semiotics: the lack of a once and for all given, fixed integrity of the human self. In the interconnectedness Tania expresses the necessary search for a reliable support to define, to answer the question “who am I?”
2026
National Portrait Gallery, London - Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2026
2024
Shortlisted for the William Lock Portrait Prize and the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture. Royal Portrait Society, London
2022
The William Lock Portrait Prize for the most timeless portrait with a real feeling for paint and its aesthetically potential. Royal Portrait Society, London
Fairs:
2023
Naarden The Art Fair (presented by Bonnard Gallery)
2022
First Art Fair, Amsterdam (presented by Bonnard Gallery)
Art Basel Miami (curated by Mashonda Tifrere and Royal House of Medici)
2021
LA ART SHOW (presented by Arcadia Gallery NYC)
Exhibitions
2023
Group show, Arcadia Gallery, New York
Secret Longings Corey Helford Gallery, LA (curated by BB Magazine)
Times Square central billbord display during NFT NYC
Note to Self (curated by ArtLeadHer) at Christie’s, London
Five and Under, Arcadia Gallery, New York
A Female Gaze, 3 female artists show, Bonnard Gallery NL
At the Edge of Realism, KIRK Gallery, Denmark
2022
Urban Zen, Donna Karan. Curated by Mashonda Tifrere. New York
Royal Portrait Society annual show, Mall Galleries, London UK
Halcyon Days, LA (curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine)
2021
Grand Opening SOHO. Arcadia Gallery, New York
Male of the Species. Arcadia Gallery, New York
Summer exhibition. Bonnard Gallery, Netherlands
Five under Five. Arcadia Gallery, New York
2020
Story Tellers. Bonnard Gallery, Netherlands
2018
Rozendaal Art Gallery, Netherlands
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