Tanya’s bio

I studied painting and printmaking at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Following college, I worked as a graphic designer in the newly emerging grande format printing industry. In 2009, I began a graduate program at the University of Minnesota, focusing on Modern and Contemporary art history, participatory art and exhibitions, art for social justice, and curating art outside museums and galleries. My graduate thesis, The Art of Plastic Pollution, was published by LapLambert.

My art centers around water: wave patterns, sea creatures and plastic pollution in water.

Physics, travel, scuba diving, and stewardship of the planet are some things that inspire my art.