
Tamar Zohara Ettun
Tamar Zohara Ettun is Chinati’s artist in residence for August 2020. Ettun is a sculptor and a performance artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She has had exhibitions and performances at Pioneer Works, PERFORMA, Sculpture Center, Madison Square Park, Art Omi Sculpture Garden, the Barrick Museum UNLV, the Watermill Center, e-flux, Herzelia Biennial, Knockdown Center, Bryant Park, Socrates Sculpture Park, Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum, and Uppsala Art Museum, among others.
Ettun received her MFA from Yale University in 2010 where she was awarded the Alice English Kimball Fellowship. She studied at Cooper Union in 2007, while earning her BFA from Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem. Ettun has been a visiting artist at many institutions, including Pratt Institute, Yale School of Art, New York University Steinhardt and Performance Studies, the School of Visual Art, Hunter College, Rutgers University, Christie’s Education, University of Las Vegas, Pace University, and Katonah Museum. Ettun teaches at Columbia University School of Arts, Lehman College, and the New School Parsons School of Design.