Tamar Ettun (she/they) creates sculpture, video and and performances often using textile that reflect on somatic experiences in relation to trauma healing rituals.
Ettun is a 2025-2026 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, where she is researching how contemporary female artists engage with themes of pregnancy, birth and motherhood through the intersections of bodily autonomy, reproductive health and protective practices. She received support from The Pollock Krasner Foundation, Interlude Artist Residency, Stoneleaf, Fountainhead, Moca Tucson, MacDowell, Franklin Furnace, Iaspis, Art Production Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Triangle Arts Association, Abrons Art Center and RECESS.
Ettun’s research-based and community engaged work was exhibited and performed at Museum of Art and Design, The Ford Foundation, The Walker Art Center, Pioneer Works, The Chinati Foundation, The Shelburne Museum, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, The Watermill Center, Art Omi Sculpture Garden, PERFORMA, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Jewish Museum, and Sculpture Center.
Ettun is the founder of The Moving Company, an artist collective that created performance art with sculpture in public spaces, and a social engagement project with Brooklyn teens hosted by The Brooklyn Museum. She is currently developing a public project in collaboration with asylum seeking mothers from Brooklyn shelter commissioned by ArtBridge. Her work has been included in the new sculpture anthology “Great Women Sculptors” published by Phaidon Press (2024).
Ettun’s newest film, IVF Documents, is curated by Barbara London for “What’s in a Story?” video program presented by CYFEST in Venice, Italy.
She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University. 

Read more about demons and mothering in this Art21 interview with Jurrell Lewis, in a studio visit with Lakshmi Rivera Amin from Hyperallergic, and in Demon Bloomsongs: Tamar Ettun’s Vivid Somatics by Elisabeth Workman published by The Walker Art Center.

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Education
2010 MFA Yale University School of Art, Sculpture, CT
2008 BFA Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Fine Art, Jerusalem, Israel
2007 BFA The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Fine Art, New York, NY

Selected Awards, Fellowships, Residencies
2025-2026 The Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
2026/2022/2019 Stoneleaf Retreat
2026 NYSCA FY26 Grant for artists
2025 Foundation of Contemporary Art, Emergency Grant
2025 Teiger Mentor in the Arts, The Department of Art at Cornell University
2025 Wave Farm's Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF), New York State Council on the Arts
2025 Ramona Residency for Artists Mothers, Houston, TX
2023 Interlude Residency
2022 Windgate Fellowship, Purchase College
2022 BAX / Brooklyn Arts Exchange
2021 New York Foundation for the Arts, City Artist Corps
2021 The California Studio, Manetti-Shrem Artist Residencies at UC Davis
2020 Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant
2020 The Chinati Foundation
2020 The Watermill Center Research Retreat
2020/2016/2011 Artis Contemporary Grant
2019 Museum of Contemporary Art at Tucson Artist Residency
2019 Pioneer Works Production Residency
2018 Brooklyn Art Council Fund
2016 Iaspis, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Sweden
2016/2015/2013 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
2015 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art
2015 Fountainhead Residency
2014 MacDowell Fellowship
2014/2015 The Watermill Center
2014 The Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
2013 Art Production Grant and Residency Program
2012 Socrates Sculpture Park Artist Fellowship
2011 RECESS Activities Fellowship

Solo Exhibitions and Performances
2026 How to Trap a Demon: Immersive Encounter with Artist Tamar Ettun (performance), The Jewish Museum, New York City
2026 Forthcoming, The Speaking Body, community-engaged project in collaboration with asylum seeking mothers, curated by Rebecca Pristoop, commissioned by ArtBridge, New York
2025 Lilit, curated by Helen Toomer, Upbringing Gallery, Kingston, NY
2024 Lilit’s Umbilical Cord, (site-specific installation), New York Art Book Fair presented by Printed Matter and Dreamsong, Dia Art Foundation, New York
2023 Lilit Wave Cave, (outdoor installation and performance), The Armory Show Off-site at Bella Abzug Park, presented by Dreamsong, New York
2023 SUMMON, Dreamsong Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2023 Texts from Lilit, (performance), Printed Matter, New York
2022 How to Trap a Demon, curated by Meghana Karnik, Richard and Dolly Mass Gallery at Purchase College, New York
2020 Lilit, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
2019 Dead Sea (performance installation), curated by David Everritt Howe, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
2018 Jubilation Inflation, curated by Alisha Kerlin, The Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada, NV
2017 Eat a Pink Owl, Fridman Gallery, New York City
2017 Mauve Bird with Yellow Teeth Red Feathers Green Feet and a Rose Belly, Part: PINK (performance), The Battery Park and Katonah Museum of Art, New York
2016 The Yellow Who Wants, curated by Rebecka Wigh Abrahamsson, Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala, Sweden
2016 Mauve Bird with Yellow Teeth Red Feathers Green Feet and a Rose Belly, Part: YELLOW (performance), Bryant Park, New York and Uppsala Botanical Garden, Sweden
2015 Alula in Blue, Fridman Gallery, New York
2015 Mauve Bird with Yellow Teeth Red Feathers Green Feet and a Rose Belly, Part: BLUE (performance), The Watermill Center, Long Island, NY, and The Knockdown Center, Queens
2015 Pre-Midnight, (performance) Tamar Ettun and Molly Lowe, curated by Adi Puterman, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
2011 One Thing Leads to Another, (performance) PERFORMA 11, presented by RECESS, New York
2009 Empty is Also, (performance) in collaboration with Emily Coates, Commissioned by RoseLee Goldberg, PERFORMA 09, X-initiative, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions and Performances
2026 What’s in a Story? Curated by Barbara London, presented by CYFEST, 2026 Venice Biennial, Italy
2026 A Star House Without a Sun, Museet for Samtidskunst, curated by Lotte Løvholm, Denmark
2025 Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break our Birth, Museum of Art and Design, MAD presentation curated by Alexandra Schwartz and Elizabeth Koehn, New York, NY
2025 DON’T LOOK NOW: A DEFENSE OF FREE EXPRESSION, Art at a Time Like This, curated by Barbara Pollack, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY
2025 Presence, curated by Helen Toomer, Upbringing Gallery, Kingston, NY
2025 The Body’s First Architecture, co-curated by Tamar Ettun and Leeza Meksin, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2025 Sally Silvers & Dancers / You Better, set design curated by Roxana Fabius, Roulette, New York
2024 Catando Bajito: Incantations, The Ford Foundation, curated by Roxana Fabius, Kobe Ko, and Beya Othmani, New York, NY
2024 Christmas in July, Curated by Wells Chandler, ANDREW RAFACZ Gallery at NADA East, New York, NY
2023 Plant Teachers: First Free Saturdays, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2023 The Sun, Star, Moon and Lilit, NADA House, presented by Dreamsong, New York
2023 The Emotional Show, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, curated by Alisha Kerlin, Las Vegas, NV
2023 Interior Resonance: 10th Anniversary Show, curated by Regine Basha, Fridman Gallery, New York
2023 Pop Up: Inflated Sculpture, curated by Carolyn Bauer, Shelburne Museum, Vermont
2023 How to Trap a Demon (performance), Pioneer Works, New York
2022 How to Trap a Demon (performance) curated by Meghana Karnik, International Studio & Curatorial Center, New York
2021 Though We Dance, curated by Hyejung Jang and Sunmi Yong, Cosmo40, Seoul, Korea
2021 Cut Ups, Essex Flowers, New York
2021 Patterns of Patience, Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Marc Straus Gallery, New York
2021 A Glitter at Sea, curated by Rebecca Heidenberg, Dreamsong Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2020 All At Once, curated by Regine Basha, Fridman Gallery, New York
2019 Summer solstice, (performance) Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
2018 The Fields, curated by Nicole Hayes, Art Omi (outdoor sculpture) New York
2017-2018 The Moving Company at Teen Night, The Brooklyn Museum, New York
2017 It’s Happening: 50 Years of Public Art, (performance) NYC Park Department, Central Park, New York
2017 The Dreamers (performance), curated by Ruth Patir, Danspace, New York
2015 In Practice, Sculpture Center, Curated by Olga Dekalo, New York
2014 Last Day of Folly, Madison Square Park, New York
2014 AIR SPACE, Abron’s Art Center, New York
2014 Still Acts, Curated by Ian Daniel and Sara Reisman, La MaMa La Galleria, New York
2013 We Live With Animals, Van Alen Institution, PERFORMA 13, New York
2012: Emerging Artists Fellowship 12, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
2012 Summer Solstice, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
2012 Trees, Art and Jewish Thought, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
2010 Handheld History, Queens Museum of Art, Video summit, New York
2009 Reinventing Rituals, Rite Now: Sacred and Secular in Video, The Jewish Museum, New York

Selected Bibliography and Publications
Frieze. “Five Emerging Artists to Watch at Frieze Los Angeles.” 2026.
Amin, Lakshmi Rivera. “A View From the Easel.” Hyperallergic, 2025.
Vogel, Wendy. Text about Tamar Ettun. Great Women Sculptors, edited by Maia Murphy. Phaidon Press, 2024.
Lewis, Jurrell. "In the Studio with Tamar Ettun." Art21, 2024.
Amin, Lakshmi Rivera. "Palestine Solidarity Shines at the New York Art Book Fair." Hyperallergic, 2024.
Workman, Elisabeth. "Demon Bloomsongs: Tamar Ettun’s Vivid Somatics." MN Artists, The Walker Art Center, 2023.
Bennet, Nick. “Tamar Ettun’s Texts from Lilit.” Brooklyn Rail, 2023.
Fontaine, Pearl. "Tamar Ettun Demonstrates How to Trap a Demon.” White Wall Magazine, 2022.
Donahue, Katy. "Trapping Demons with Tamar Ettun and Lilit." White Wall Magazine, 2021.
Ainley, Nate. "The Inflatable World of Tamar Ettun." VICE, 2016.
Laster, Paul. The Observer, 2016.
Murkett, Sarah. Interview with Tamar Ettun. The Huffington Post, 2015.
Corwin, William. Art Critical, 2015.
Kurchanova, Natasha. Studio International, 2015.
Piejko, Jennifer. Modern Painters, 2015.
Lev, Naomi. Interview with Tamar Ettun. Bomb Magazine, 2015.
Madoff, Steven Henry, Claire Barliant, and Natasha Marie Lorenz. Alula in Blue. Catalog published by Fridman Gallery, 2015.
Jenkins, Mark. The Washington Post, 2014.
Goldberg, RoseLee. Performa 11: Staging Ideas, 2012.
Sheets, Hilarie M. The New York Times, 2011.
Goldenberg, Roselee, ed. Performa 09, Back to Futurism, 2010.
Alemani, Cecilia, ed. The X Initiative Yearbook. Milan: Mousse, 2010.
Smith, Roberta. New York Times, 2009.
Saltz, Jerry. New York Magazine, 2009.