Biography

Leah Tacha (b. 1984, Lawrence, KS) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA in Painting from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 2007 and her MFA from SUNY Purchase College in 2009. Her first solo exhibition in NY was curated by Jon Lutz at Sardine in Brooklyn, NY in 2014 and she had another solo show curated by Lutz at 106 Green Gallery in 2016. She has shown with Young Space, Underdonk, SSD (Shrine & Sargent’s Daughters), Deanna Evans Projects, Daily Operation, RARE Gallery, New Baroque, and the Torrance Art Museum, among many others. In 2015 she was awarded the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop SIP Fellowship. In 2017 she was awarded a Windgate Fellowship from the Archie Bray Foundation. Her most recent solo exhibition was curated by Jen Wroblewski at Gold/Scopophilia* in Montclair, NJ.

 
Works
  • Leah Tacha, Featherbed, 2021
    Featherbed, 2021
  • Leah Tacha, Pearl Mirror, 2021
    Pearl Mirror, 2021
  • Leah Tacha, Satiated, 2021
    Satiated, 2021
  • Leah Tacha, Soft Rocks, 2021
    Soft Rocks, 2021
  • Leah Tacha, Sway, 2021
    Sway, 2021
  • Leah Tacha, Vacation Ghost, 2021
    Vacation Ghost, 2021