tarah douglas is an artist working in photography, sound, and video. Her practice is rooted in the allegorical dissection of identity, color, language, landscape, and the human condition. douglas holds a BFA from the University of Michigan and AN MFA in photography FROM the Yale School of Art. SHE CURRENTLY LIVES IN LOS ANGELES, CA.

contact: tarahedouglas@gmail.com

  • education

    2023
    Whitney Museum Independent Study Program | Studio Fellow

    2022
    Faculty Fellows for the Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence, Parsons School of Design at The New School | Teaching Fellow

    2021
    MFA in Photography, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

    2014
    BFA, Penny Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

    2013
    Semester Abroad, Srishti School of Art and Design, Bangalore, India


    solo/ two-person exhibitions

    2021
    there’s only one way to stop, but I don’t sing, I bark, International Waters, Brooklyn, NY

    2017
    studies of jahyne, Harlem School of the Arts, Harlem, NY


    group exhibitions

    2024

    At Odds With: Whitney ISP 23/24 Studio Exhibition, New York, NY

    2022
    considered interactions, casemore kirkeby, san francisco, ca

    2021
    Tomorrow 2021 US and UK Fine Arts Masters Virtual Exhibition, White Cube, London, UK
    Dispatcher: Yale 2021 Photography Thesis Show, Casemore & Kirkeby, San Francisco, CA
    Dead Letter Office:Yale 2021 Photography Thesis Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
    Sorry We Missed You: Yale 2021 Photography Thesis Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

    2020
    Treacherous with Old Magic, Future Fair New York, curated by Nico Wheadon
    This Time We Know Each Other, Second Year Exhibition, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
    The Patient Visitor: Recent Work from Yale MFA Photography 2021, Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, MA

    2019
    We Don’t Really Know Each Other: First-Year Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven CT
    Point of Triangulation, New York University, Gallatin Gallery, New York, NY
    Narrative Threads, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ

    2018
    Perspective Lens: This is Amerika, Newark Arts Festival, Newark, NJ
    Harlem Postcards: Wish You Were Here, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY
    The Sister Show, The Hosting, Ann Arbor, MI

    2016
    Viral: 25 Years from Rodney King, Bettiono, Oakland, CA

    2015
    Art In the Public Eye: What’s All the Fuss?, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
    Evocation: Works and Projects, Dejavu Gallery, New York, NY

    awards/grants/residencies

    2021
    Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize, Yale School of Art
    Beinecke Library Graduate and Professional School Research Fellowship, Yale University

    2020
    Critical Practice Fellowship, Yale School of Art
    Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship, Yale School of Art
    Art and Social Justice Initiative Grant, Yale School of Art

    2019
    Stoneleaf Retreat Residency, Kingston, NY

    2018
    Express Newark Third Space Grant, Visiting Artist & Curator Residencies for Shine Portrait Studio

    collaborative projects

    2021
    A Womb of Violet II: Blackness, Resistance, and Being, fayemi shakur, Project forEmpty Space, Newark, NJ

    2019
    Point of Triangulation, Michelle C Jones, Right of Return, NYU, New York, NY
    face(s), Yard Concept, New York, NY
    A Womb of Violet: An Anthology, fayemi shakur, Project for Empty Space Feminist Incubator, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ

    2018
    Deborah Willis: In Pursuit of Beauty: Imaging Closets in Newark and Beyond, Kalia Brooks Nelson, Shine Portrait Studio, Express Newark, Newark, NJ

    publications

    2021
    in january//black love + afrofuturism & rinse, wash, repeat, A Womb of Violet: An Anthology, fayemi shakur, Project for Empty Space
    how they bleed & with or without, A Womb of Violet: An Anthology, fayemi shakur, Project for Empty Space

    2018
    studies of jahyne, Homie House Press

    talks/related experiences

    2021
    Studio Visit, Black Portraiture Conference, Toronto, Canada
    Artist Talk: Part 1 + 2, Selection Committee Radio Show, New Town Radio, Brooklyn, NY
    Artist Talk, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

    2019
    The Convening, Art on the Vine, Edgartown, MV

    2018
    studies of jahyne, Book Signing, Homie House Press, New York Art Book Fair, MOMA PS1, Queens, NY
    studies of jahyne, Book Release & Signing, Ode To Babel, Brooklyn, NY
    studies of jahyne, Book Release, Independent Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA

  • 2022

    Musee Magazine | Exhibition review: Considered Interactions at Casemore Kirkeby
    Hyperallergic | Photography’s Impossible Attempt at Freezing Time
    48 Hill | Time slips to dizzying photographic affect in “Considered Interaction”


    2021

    LensCulture | The Class of 2021
    Thesis Review, Sorry We missed you | tarah douglas

    2020

    Columbia Journal | A Medium between a Thought or a Feeling: An Interview

    2017
    NYT | Harlem School of the Arts, Once Shuttered and in Debt, Now Dreams Big

    2016
    The Laundromat Project | #BlackLivesMatter: The LP Community Responds