Artists Registry

Tatana Kellner is a photographer, printmaker and artists' book maker whose work is based on personal history and contemporary events. She is a recipient of numerous grants and awards including Individual Fellowships from the New York Foundation on the Arts, Photographers' Fellowships from the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Individual Fellowship from the Empire State Crafts Alliance, and the Ruth Chenven Foundation Award among others.

She has been awarded residencies at the Visual Studies Workshop, Lightwork, Artpark, University of Southern Maine, The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The Banff Centre for the Arts, the Saltonstall Art Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, School 33 in Baltimore and Prints and Progress in Philadelphia.

Kellner is a founding member and Artistic Director of Women's Studio Workshop, an artists' workspace in Rosendale, NY.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 While You Were Sleeping, Roanoke College Art Gallery, Salem, VA
reconsider, St Thomas Acquinas College, Sparkill, NY
2006 Bitter Lesson, R&F Encaustic Gallery, Kingston, NY
2004
Not In Our Name, Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale, NY

2003
Recent Work, Ruth Muroff Kotler Gallery, Ulster Community College, Stone Ridge, NY

2002 Assemblage and Ritual, Mid Career Retrospective, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2001 Retrospective, Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
2000 Eye Witness, Center for Photography in Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
1998 Transformations, Goldstrom Gallery, New York City
New Work, Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY
1997 Re-visiting History, Gallerie Sans Nom, Moncton, Canada
Alterations, Center For Visual Arts, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
1996 Retrospective, The Floating Gallery Centre for Photography, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Retrospective, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
1995 Art & the Holocaust, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
1994 Fifty Years of Silence, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY
1993 Fifty Years of Silence: Memory and Loss, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1991 Altered Images, The Queens Museum at the Bulova Corporate Center, New York, NY
1989 Permutations, Kleinert Arts Center, Woodstock, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Distaff Tool Kit, The Mead Museum, Amherst College, MA
American Veristic Initiative, Asto Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2007 The Memory and Death, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, WI
2006 Book as Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
America on the Brink, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA
I Witness: Art in a Political Context, Grimshaw-Hyde Art Gallery, BCC, Fall River, MA
2005
Resonance and Response, Wellesley College Library, Wellesley,MA

Domestic Policy, District Fine Arts Gallery, Washington, DC
2004 Fleeting Moments, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO
2003 Luminous Image, Creative Concepts, Beacon, NY
2002 Through Our Lenses, The Nathan Cummins Foundation, New York
Material Witness, Goldstein Gallery, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN
Extraordinary Things, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
2001 Photography Regional, Albany Airport Gallery, Albany, NY
2000 Black and White, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, NYC
1999 Scrolling the Page, Tufts University, New Orleans, LA
1998 The Next Word, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
1997 Women of the Book, Finegold Art Gallery, West Valley, CA
1996 A Woman's Place, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
1995 Between Spectacle and Silence, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
Art and the Holocaust, Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC
1994 Milliseconds to Millenia: The Art of Time, Virginia Center for the Crafts
1993 Memories, Facts and Lies, Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Making War, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Art-Eco: Contemporary Art & Environment, State University College at New Paltz, NY
1991 Fragments, Art In General, New York, NY

GRANTS
2008 Puffin Foundation Grant
2005 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
2000 Photographer's Fund Award, Center for Photography in Woodstock
1997 Catalog Project, to publish a catalog of my work, New York Foundation for the Arts
1996 Individual Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts
1992 Individual Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts
1991 NYSCA Decentralization Grant, Dutchess County Arts Council
1989 Artist Fellowship, Empire State Crafts Alliance
1985 Ruth Chenven Foundation Award for "Extended Family"

RESIDENCIES
2007 Jentel Artist in Residence Program, Banner, WY
2006 Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain, NY
2003 Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY
2001 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
Saltonstall Art Colony, Ithaca, NY
1997 University of Southern Maine
1995 The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
1994 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
1992 Lightwork, Syracuse, NY
1991 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
1989 Mid Atlantic States Foundation, School 33, Baltimore
1988 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
1987 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: BOOKS & EXHIBITION CATALOGUES <
Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community, Nancy Miller and Jason Tougaw, University of Illinois Press, 2002
Shaping Losses:Cultural Memory & the Holocaust, J.Epstein & L.Lerfkowitz, University of Illinois Press, 2001
Transformations, exhibition catalog with essay by Beth Haber, 1998
Our Grandmothers, Stewart, Tabori and Chang, Welcome Enterprises, 1998
A Woman's Place, Artists reflection of their culture, The Monmouth Museum, 1996
Destruction and Survival: Art and the Holocaust, Ori Zoltes, Klutznick National Jewish Museum, 1995
Century of Artists' Books, Joanna Drucker, Granary Books, 1995
50 Years of Silence: Memories and Loss, Robert Hirsch, CEPA, Fall/Winter 1993
Contact Sheet 75/76,

REVIEWS & ARTICLES
Flexible Images: Handmade American Photography 1969-2002, Robert Hirsch, Exposure, vol 36:1, 2003
Frequencies, Poughkeepsie Journal, Enjoy Entertainment Guide, January 31, 2003
Personal History, Richard Huntington, The Buffalo News, December 6, 2002
Picturing Ourselves, Connie Gaasch, Artvoice, November 28, 2002

War Memorial, Richard Huntington, The Buffalo News, September 13, 2002
Requiem for September 11, Robert Hirsch, Forever Young, September 14, 2002, Vol. 14 / No. 9
Harpers, August 1998, published photo
Artists' books at Rice Gallery a captivating hands-on exhibit, Peg Wright, The Daily Gazette, 5/7, 1998
Memories of the Holocaust, Kate Jaimet, Telegraph Journal, October 20, 1997
Tatana Kellner revisite l'histoire, Acadie Nouvelle, October 17, 1997
Vernissage de "Revisiting History"; Temoin de l'Holocauste, Steve Hachey, Lefront, October 15, 1997
A colorful jumble, Sarah Stack, Taconic Newspapers, May 15 ,1997
Fading voices pay tribute to victims of Holocaust, Sally Vallongo, The The Toledo Blade, May 4, 1997
FLC photography show reflects Holocaust, Judith Reynolds, Fort Lewis Herald, March 20, 1997
Historic Mirrages, Karen Norklun, Woodstock Times, February 6, 1997
Defining a Woman's Place in the World as the Very Center of Life, Vivien Raynor, The New York Times, 9. 20, 1996
Revisiting History at Floating Gallery, Matt Bellan, The Jewish Post, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Vol.II, No. 13, 1996
Artists' Bookkeeping, Hank Burchard, The Washington Post, January 6, 1995
Intriguing reads, Charlie Langdon, The Durango Herald, May 11, 1995
A Provocative Photonominal, Karen Rene Merkle, Times Publishing, Feb 23, 1995
Women photographers exhibit captures life through the lens, Susan Hajec, Michigan Women's Times, Jan - Feb, 1995
Havel in Babel, Martha McWilliams, Washington City Paper, February 3, 1995
Books Revised With Vision, Mary Mc Coy, The Washington Post, January 28, 1995
Exhibition contains images of Holocaust, Western Herald, January 17, 1995

Artists' works speak volumes, Sunday News-Journal, Daytona Beach, Florida, April 17, 1994
Show explores brief history of time, CeCe Bullard, Richmond Times Despatch, January 28, 1994
A Message About Intolerance, Scott Scanlon, The Post Standard, Oswego, March 5, 1994
Means of Transmission, Darkness and Light, and the Second Generation, Beth Haber,
The Binnewater Tides vol no1, Fall1994
Envisioning the Word: Books as Works of Art, Alan Singer, The Bookpress, May 1993
University acquires Holocaust stories, Anne Roth, The Syracuse Record, Jan 19, 1993
Pages upstage installations, Bill Jaeger, Woodstock Times, July 30, 1992
Earth's reflections, Florence Schetzel, Poughkeepsie Journal, July 17, 1992
Art + Environment = SUNY exhibit, Daily Freeman, July 17, 1992
Choices, Village Voice, May 7, 1991
Mercurial murals, Stephen Kolpan, Woodstock Times, September 14, 1989

EDUCATION
MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology
BA, University of Toledo