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Biography:
T. Charnan was born in San Antonio, Texas is 1971. She struggled with dyslexia in school but freely explored the wooded landscape around her rural home in Maryland outside Washington, DC. In 1994, after studying with David Driskell, Josephine Withers, and Katie King, she graduated magna cum laude from the U of MD with degrees in Studio Art, Art History and Women's Studies. Lewis then spent a year working and hitchhiking through the Middle East and Eastern Africa. She had an 8 year career in film and television production until a near-death experience on a sailboat on her 30th birthday. In 2004, under the guidance of Leslie King-Hammond, she earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), won the graduate painter's prize, a traveling scholarship, and a MD Governor's Citation/Individual Artist Award. She met her life partner, Kit Nicholls, Director of the Cooper Union Writing and Learning Center, on a subway platform just after moving to New York City from a residency in Berlin. She lives in Beacon, NY and works in Learning & Engagement at Dia: Beacon.
Instagram @charnan
- The New Museum (NYC) - New York Times Article
- The Queens Museum (NYC) - Time Out New York and The Art Newspaper
- Centro de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona
- Stedelijk Museum and TrouwAmsterdam
- Printed Matter (NYC) - Let's Talk About Love Baby
- Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- The Baltimore Museum of Art - Baltimore Sun
- KuBe Art Center (Beacon)
- Hudson Highlands Nature Museum
- Genauso und Anders (Berlin)
- The Aichi Museum of Art (Japan)
- The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
- In recognition of her work as one of the managing directors of Steve Cannon's A Gathering of the Tribes, her name was displayed at the 2022 Whitney Biennial (NYC) - ARTnews Article
Biography:
T. Charnan was born in San Antonio, Texas is 1971. She struggled with dyslexia in school but freely explored the wooded landscape around her rural home in Maryland outside Washington, DC. In 1994, after studying with David Driskell, Josephine Withers, and Katie King, she graduated magna cum laude from the U of MD with degrees in Studio Art, Art History and Women's Studies. Lewis then spent a year working and hitchhiking through the Middle East and Eastern Africa. She had an 8 year career in film and television production until a near-death experience on a sailboat on her 30th birthday. In 2004, under the guidance of Leslie King-Hammond, she earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), won the graduate painter's prize, a traveling scholarship, and a MD Governor's Citation/Individual Artist Award. She met her life partner, Kit Nicholls, Director of the Cooper Union Writing and Learning Center, on a subway platform just after moving to New York City from a residency in Berlin. She lives in Beacon, NY and works in Learning & Engagement at Dia: Beacon.
Instagram @charnan