Austrian-born with Lebanese origins, Tanya spent her childhood traveling back and forth between the two countries.
While in Austria, she completed high school and graduated from university with a diploma in fashion design. Soon after, she started developing a growing interest in photography. She is currently based in Beirut.
Tanya describes her work as a documentation of emotions and intimacy. In her photographs, she seeks to create a trigger for thoughts or moods, and encourages her audience to formulate its own interpretation.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in both solo and group shows, and her photographs have appeared in several notable prints such as AD France, Brownbook, Chicago Tribune, Colors Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Monocle, The Observer, The Wire and others.
Her body of work documenting the Lebanese alternative music scene was assembled in the 2010 publication 'Untitled Tracks: On Alternative Music in Beirut'.
Tanya is represented by Art Factum Gallery.
UPCOMING:
Art Factum Gallery, group exhibition, Beirut, September 2013
CURRENT:
Festival Photomed, Sanary-sur-mer, May 23 to June 16, 2013
PAST [selected]:
Art Factum Gallery, 'All Down the Line', group exhibition, Beirut 2012
Art Factum Gallery, 'From a Distance', solo exhibition, Beirut 2012
The Empty Quarter, 'Women on the Verge', group exhibition, Dubai 2012
Contemporary Art Platform Kuwait, 'Beirut II', group exhibition, Kuwait 2012
Art Factum Gallery, 'Gathered Beyond the Impasse', group exhibition, Beirut 2011
Roaming Images, 'BEYroute', group exhibition, curated by Rola Khayyat, Beirut & Thessaloniki 2011
Kunsthalle Wien, 'Beirut', group exhibition, curated by Bariaa Mourad, Vienna 2011
Nous Gallery, 'Public Domain Exhibition', group exhibition, London 2011
Centre Culturel Francais de Damas, 'Xéme Journées de la Photographie de Damas', group exhibition, Damascus 2010
Kleio Projects, 'Music is Life: Lebanese Sound Stills', solo exhibition, New York 2009
Nicolas Sursock Museum, 'Salon d'Automne', juried group exhibition, Beirut 2009
Prague Design Blok, 'OB-Blok', group exhibition, Prague 2008
Goethe Institute Lebanon, 'Be-Sides', group exhibition, curated by Frauke Eigen, Beirut 2007/2008