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Tatana Kellner
Email kakeart@yahoo.com

Personal Statement: As a photographer and mixed media artist, I am interested in investigating the layering of memory in personal experiences, family narratives, and cultural and historic artifacts.

As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, my work often pays homage to the loss incurred through that history. From early works based on my parents' experiences as Holocaust survivors, to my memorial piece for the victims of the September 11th tragedy, I have continually investigated human behavior, the cycle of life and death, and the cultural materials and markers that help us make sense of our lives. Through my work, I hope to create a link between the past and the present.
Current Work
Currently I am working on combining drawing with my photographic imagery.
Short Bio
As a working artist I am active in creating and exhibiting my work nationally in invitational group and solo exhibitions.

I am a recipient of several grants and awards - including two Individual Fellowships from the New York Foundation on the Arts, a Catalog Project Grant funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, two Photographers' Fellowships from the Center for Photography at Woodstock, two Decentralization Grants (to support publication of Fifty Years of Silence and Portrait of a Town), an Individual Fellowship from the Empire State Crafts Alliance, the Ruth Chenven Foundation Award, and several others.

I have 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.

I am one of the founders and the Artistic Director of the Women's Studio Workshop, an artists workspace, whose mission is to encourage the voice and vision of women artists and provide professional opportunities and employment.
Honors
Recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, Photographers Fund Award, Center for Photography, Woodstock. Residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Banff, Lightworks, Millay Colony, Visual Studies Workshop, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
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Artist Location
Kingston, NY

Type of artist
Other, Arts Educator
General Themes
History, Death & Dying, Comedy/Humor/Satire, Violence, Families/Parenting
Keywords
Holocaust artists' books
Last updated on March 29th, 2004

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