Adrienne Elise Tarver is an interdisciplinary artist with a practice that spans painting, sculpture, installation, textiles, photography, and video. Her work addresses the complexity and invisibility of the black female identity from the history within domestic spaces to the fantasy of the tropical seductress to the spiritual matriarch archetype.
She has exhibited nationally and abroad, including solo exhibitions at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut; the Academy Art Museum in Maryland; Atlanta Contemporary in Georgia; Dinner Gallery in New York; Ochi Projects in Los Angeles, CA; Wave Hill in the Bronx, NY; BRIC Project Room in Brooklyn, NY; and A-M Gallery in Sydney, Australia. She has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University, the Nancy Graves Foundation Award, and completed residencies at Silver Art Projects, Stoneleaf Retreat among others. She has been commissioned for solo projects through the Public Art Fund, the New York MTA, Google, Art Aspen, and Pulse Art Fair and has been featured in online and print publications including the New York Times, Forbes, Brooklyn Magazine, ArtNews, ArtNet, Blouin ArtInfo, Whitewall Magazine, and Hyperallergic, among others. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BFA from Boston University.
