2018
TAMAR ETTUN
Born in Jerusalem, Israel, 1982. Lives and works in New York.

Sculpture with motion sensors activating lights and sounds (story telling)2014

Mixed Media 116 x 84 x 84 in 2017

Neon 23 x 9.5 x 2 in 2017

Mixed Media 78 x 32 x 15 in 2017

Mixed Media 72 x 12 x 0.5 inches 2017

Plaster, Plastic, Wood 12 x 12 x 8 in 2015

Sculpture with motion sensors activating lights and sounds (story telling) 2014

Plaster, Metal, Paint 6 x 6 x 5 inches 2015
Tamar Ettun is a Brooklyn based sculptor and performance artist. She is the founder and director of The Moving Company. Ettun received her MFA from Yale University in 2010 where she was awarded the Alice English Kimball Fellowship. She studied at Cooper Union in 2007, while earning her BFA from Bezalel Academy. Her numerous exhibitions and performances include: The Watermill Center, Vanity Projects, e-flux, Transformer, NADA NYC, Madison Square Park, Braverman Gallery, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Andrea Meislin Gallery, PERFORMA 11, PERFORMA 09. Ettun has been honored by several organizations including Franklin Furnace, Iaspis, The Pollock Krasner, Fountainhead Residency, The Watermill Center, MacDowell Fellowship, Abrons Arts Center, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Art Production Fund, Socrates Sculpture Park, Artis, RECESS, and Triangle Arts Association. Ettun is currently working towards a solo show at the Upsala Museum of Art that will open in 2016.
Gallery Exhibitions
NADA NY
March 8 - 11, 2018
September 9 - October 14, 2017
November 12 - December 10, 2016
ruby onyinyechi amanze, Michele Bubacco, Tamar Ettun, Brian Fernandes-Halloran
September 19 - October 28, 2015
UNTITLED Miami Beach
December 2 - 6, 2015
Catalogs
Eat a Pink Owl
Featuring essays by Wendy Vowel and Barry Schwabsky.
Alula in Blue
Featuring essays by Steven Henry Madoff, Claire Barliant and Natasha Marie Llorens.
Selected Press
Tamar Ettun: About Shadows of Pink and Shades of Power (and vice-versa)
Wall Street International
November 10, 2017
Tamar Ettun's Eat a Pink Owl: The Art of Assembly
Honeysuckle Magazine
October 4, 2017
Interview with Tamar Ettun by Heather Zizes
Fjords
September 28, 2017
51 New York Gallery Shows that You need to (Somehow) See This September
artnet news
September 7, 2017
2017 Is the Year of Aggression for This Annual Performance Art Series
The Creators Project
December 16, 2016
Performance Artist Tamar Ettun on Sculpting With People
Huffington Post
October 22, 2015
Objects with an Absurd Urge to Move.
Hyperallergic
October 22, 2015
Tamar Ettun's Embodied Sculptures
Art Critical
October 21, 2015
Tamar Ettun: ‘I am using the structure of a religious practice as a fold for my art-making’
Studio International
October 2, 2015
Modern Painters/ Introducing Tamar Ettun: Live Sculptures and Performing Stillness
Modern Painters
March 7, 2015
BOMB Magazine
January 12, 2015