Tarrah Krajnak joins the faculty of UCLA's Department of Art
UCLA Arts welcomes Tarrah Krajnak to the Department of Art as associate professor, effective July 1, 2024.
Born in Lima, Peru, Krajnak is an artist working across photography, performance, and poetry. She is currently based in Los Angeles and is represented by Zander Galerie, Cologne/Paris.
She is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow and was recently awarded the Jury Prize of the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles, a Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies, and the Hariban Award Grand Prize from Kyoto, Japan.
"I am a dedicated artist educator with close to twenty years of teaching experience, and I am thrilled to join the UCLA Art Department,” Krajnak said. “I am looking forward to working with the amazing cohort of students here as well as the dedicated faculty and staff."
Krajnak has published three books including El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan (DAIS Books, 2021), Master Rituals II: Weston's Nudes (TBW Books, 2022), and RePose (Fw:Books, 2023). Her work was featured in recent issues of Aperture, British Journal of Photography, The Eyes Journal, and European Photography.
This past year, Krajnak’s work was exhibited in Corps á Corps at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Photography Now at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Aperture's traveling exhibition You Belong Here: People, Place, & Purpose in Latinx Photography; and in the solo exhibition Shadowings at the Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Pinault Collection, Paris; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., among others.
This academic year, Krajnak will teach graduate photography and an advanced special topics undergraduate photography course in the spring focused on Anti-Racism, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
Header image: A photo of Tarrah Krajnak. (Courtesy of the artist)
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