Tanya Marcuse

Tanya Marcuse received her MFA from Yale University Art School. Ms. Marcuse has received awards and honors including a 2002–2003 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2003 Anson Kittredge Grant, a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, as well as fellowships from the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and the Dutchess County Arts Council.

She is the recipient of a National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts Award and the George Sakier Memorial Prize for Excellence in Photography from Yale. Her photographs have been exhibited nationally at the Yoshii Gallery and the Daniel Silverstein Gallery in New York City, as well as group shows at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Alternative Museum, Wessel & O’Conner Gallery, and the Corcoran.

Reviews of her work appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Village Voice, Artnews, Art in America, PDN, Art Issues, and Artforum. Her photographs are in the collections of the Corcoran Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Yale Art Gallery, the Library of Congress, and numerous private collections.

Ms. Marcuse has taught at SUNY–Dutchess, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and at Vassar College. She currently teaches photography at Simon’s Rock of Bard College. She will lecture on her new body of work developed during her Guggenheim Fellowship, Undergarments and Armor. Some examples of her work from that series are shown below.

Layered Bustle	Wire & Muslin Bustle	Crinoline Cage	Corset with Satin Ribbon	Metal Corset B	Buffe
Cuirass	Embossed Breastplate	Horse Armor	Maximillion Armor	Medieval Helmet	Sabboton & Greave