About

Tanya Chaly was born in Sydney, Australia and currently lives and works in New York City. In her practice she examines ideas of the Natural World; the history of Natural Science, notions of nature and classifications of Wilderness and the fetishization of Nature.

She has exhibited widely in both group and solo shows and has been the recipient of a number of awards and prizes. Recent solo shows include Miller Gallery Alvernia University, PA, McCarthy Art Gallery St Michael’s College, VT, and the University of Connecticut Art Gallery. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Wave Hill, NY , The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Australia, Drive-By Projects, MA, Idaho State University, ID, Arizona State University, AZ, CAP ArtSpace, NY and Five Points Gallery, CT among many others.

In 2014 she received the New York Explorer's Club Artist-in- Exploration Award (sponsored By Rolex), a $25,000 prize given to an artist to produce a body of work out in the field. With this grant she travelled to Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique spending time at the E O Wilson Laboratory and completed a body of work documenting the parks restoration process which was exhibited in 2015 at The Explorer’s Club in New York City. Other grants and awards include residencies at Brooklyn Art Cluster 2017, Art of Science Residency The Ligo Project NY, a NSW Ministry for the Arts Gunnery Studio, Australia, the Saltonstall Foundation NY, the Vermont Studio Center and The Zeta Orionis Fellowship in 2017.

She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and went on to complete Post Graduate studies majoring in Painting from the University Of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts in Sydney, Australia. She enrolled in a Bachelor of Art History at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France where she was appointed a teaching position at the Ecole Media D’Art, in Chalon sur-Saone.

Her work can be found in the public collections of: The Explorer’s Club New York, The Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Queensland, Nortel Australia, Crown Casino, Melbourne and other private and corporate collections in Australia, the UK and the United States.