Tajh Rust
Born in Brooklyn, NY
Lives and works in New Haven, CT
Education
2019 MFA, Yale University, School of Art, New Haven, CT
2011 BFA, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
Residencies and Awards
2019
2018 Andrea Zittel Residency, Institute of Investigative Living at A-Z West, Joshua Tree, CA
2017 Martha Trevor Award, Worldstudio AIGA Scholarship
2010 Palmer Hayden Artist Travel Grant
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Passages, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
ArtBrussels, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Vernacular Interior, Hales Gallery, New York, NY
Conjuring Wholeness in the Wake of Rupture, De Buck Gallery, New York, NY
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New York, NY
Again, Always, Yale University, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2018 Interwoven, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
Untitled Art, Miami Beach, Miami, FL
In Plain Sight/Site, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Familiar Boundaries. Infinite Possibilities, August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Strange Beach, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
Mirrored By Nature, Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Giving Up the Ghost: Artifacts/A Study of Power and Solidarity Against White Violence in Modernity
Rush Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Winterfly Benefit, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY
Black At Yale, Yale University, Afro-American Cultural Center Gallery, New Haven, CT
Make___Place, The New York Immigrant Coalition, New York, NY
Voices Need Heroes, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Speak Out, Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY
News
2019 ARTFORUM, Critics’ Picks, Vernacular Interior
Art of Choice, TAJH RUST PUTS HIS ATTENTION ON THE PRIVATE SPHERE