Tatana Kellner

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Kingston, NY

Year at Millay: 1993

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY (2024, 2018, 2013, 2011, 2006); Artist-in-Residence, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY (2024, 2000); Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2021, 2001, 1994, 1987); Artist-in-Residence, Visual Arts, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY (2016); Artist-In-Residence, National Park Service Artists-in-Residence Program, Weir Farm, Wilton, CT (2014); Grant Recipient, The Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ (2008); Artist-in-Residence, Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY (2007); Grant Recipient, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY (2005); Fellow, Photography, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY (1996, 1992); Artist-in-Residence, VCCA Residency, Amherst, VA (1991); Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (1988).

Website: https://tatanakellner.com/

Tatana Kellner is a visual artist with over 20 solo exhibitions in the United States and Canada. Her practice encompasses artist’s books, printmaking, paper making, drawing, photography and installation. She uses these media to comment on contemporary culture.

Tatana’s work has been featured at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Fort Collins, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, and Center for Photography at Woodstock, Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and Creative Concepts in Beacon, New York, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, 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 Ruth Chenven Foundation Grant. She has been awarded residencies at The MacDowell  (three times), Yaddo, Banff Centre for the Arts, Lightwork, Visual Studies Workshop, Saltonstall Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Artpark, Blue Mountain Center, Jentel, Foundación Valparaiso and Ragdale Foundation.

Tatana is a co-founder of Women’s Studio Workshop, an artists’ workspace in Rosendale, New York. Her work encompasses printmaking, photography and installation and she is the author of 22 limited edition artists’ books.