Tanya Kaiser is a Cleveland-based experimental artist, curator, and educator working across installation, mixed media, and ceramic sculpture. She holds an MFA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University. Her work examines how systems regulate the body and shape what can be spoken, shown, or believed, with particular attention to censorship, religion, bodily autonomy, and institutional power.
In addition to her studio practice, Kaiser has curated more than 25 exhibitions across gallery, museum, and academic contexts, developing experimental and interdisciplinary projects that connect contemporary art, feminist inquiry, and public programming. She has led exhibitions, artist talks, and public programs that position the gallery as a site for dialogue, critical encounter, and community engagement.
As an educator and arts leader, Kaiser brings experience in curriculum development, interdisciplinary programming, artist support, and organizational leadership across nonprofit, academic, and gallery settings.
EDUCATION
2017 MFA in Studio Art, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
2011 BFA in Fine Art with minor in Art History, Cum Laude, Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, OH
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
(6/20/2026 - 8/8/2026) Group Exhibition, Independence for Whom: Amplifying Voices, Honoring Histories, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA (a historic venue and former suffragist prison)
(7/10/2026 8/1/2026) Solo Exhibition, Crystallized Innocence: The Fragility of Childhood in a Consuming World, Gallery 934, Columbus, OH
(01/2026 – 03/2026) Group Exhibition, Consider Fires, Heights Arts, Cleveland Heights, OH
(09/2025 – 11/2025) Group Exhibition, Process and Practice: Crafting Wellbeing, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI
(09/2025 – 10/2025) Group Exhibition, Crafted Couture, Valley Art Center, Chagrin Falls, OH
(09/2025) Solo Installation, The Confessional Womb, IngenuityFest: Forging the Future, Cleveland, OH
(07/2025 – 09/2025) Group Exhibition, Ohio Artist Registry 2025 Juried Exhibition, Patrick Losinski Gallery, Columbus, OH
(06/2025 – 07/2025) Group Exhibition, Down the Rabbit Hole, White Rabbit Galleries, Barberton, OH
(07/2024 – 09/2024) Group Exhibition, Descendants, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, OH
(10/2022) Group Exhibition, RESPONDING TO THE OVERTURN OF ROE V. WADE, anthropologyofmotherhood.com, virtual
(09/2022 – 11/2022) Group Exhibition, Feminist Biennial, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
(12/2020) Group Exhibition, Protest & Protect, Feminist Art Museum, virtual
(02/2020 – 03/2020) Group Exhibition, Fe Mail Art: 2020 Postcard Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (04/2017) Group Exhibition, *BODIES: MFA Thesis Exhibition*, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook, NY (01/2017) Group Exhibition, Alternatives in Clay, Patchogue Arts Gallery, Patchogue, NY
(09/2016) Solo Exhibition, OMother, Lawrence Alloway Memorial Gallery, Stony Brook, NY
(05/2016) Group Exhibition, Unbound; 7th International Book Art Biennial, Alexandria Library, Alexandria, Egypt
(03/2016) Solo Exhibition, Echoes: From the Mother, Lawrence Alloway Memorial Gallery, Stony Brook, NY
SELECTED SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
(02/2026) Panelist, Decency and Display: Censorship in the Exhibition of American Art, College Art Association
(11/2025) Panelist, The Future of Work in Art and Tech, Creative Meatup
(05/2025) Moderator, Art as Resistance: A Conversation with Women Who Create Change, Kaiser Studios
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
Kaiser has curated more than 25 exhibitions across gallery, museum, and academic contexts, with a focus on contemporary art, feminist discourse, public dialogue, and artist-centered programming.
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES
(2025) Creative Impact Award
Assembly for the Arts, Cleveland, OH
(2024) Impact Award
Ingenuity Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
(2023) Community Impact Award
Tremont West Development Corporation, Cleveland, OH
(2022–2023) Arts Leadership Residency
Assembly for the Arts, Cleveland, OH
(2016–2017) Goldberger Fellowship
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
(2014–2017) Teaching Assistantship and Tuition Scholarship
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE / LEADERSHIP
(2026 – Present) Exhibitions Chair, Board Member (Member-at-Large), Women's Caucus for Art
(2025 – Present) Board Member, Collective Arts Network Journal, Cleveland, OH
(2025 - 2028) Appointed Member, Services to Artists Committee, College Art Association
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
(2025) Civic Leadership Institute, Cleveland Leadership Center
(2024) Accelerate: Citizens Make Change Pitch Competition, Participant, Cleveland Leadership Center, Cleveland, OH
TEACHING RECORD
(07/2018 - 02/2019) Art Instructor, East End Arts, Riverhead, NY
Renaissance Kid Camp, Drawing and Painting, Sculpture, and Mixed Media
(01/2018 - 04/2018) Adjunct Faculty, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY
(01/2015 - 05/2017) Instructor of Record, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Foundations of Drawing ARS 154
(08/2014 - 12/2014) Teaching Assistant, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Foundations of Drawing ARS 154
(04/2014) Visiting Instructing Artist, Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, OH
Ceramics ART 140
(02/2013 - 04/2014) Instructor, Middletown Arts Center, Middletown, OH
Art on the Go for Butler County Elementary Schools, Youth Drawing & Painting, and First Friday Sampler
(08/2013 - 09/2013) Instructor, Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center, Covington, KY
Adult Ceramic Art Tile Workshop
(06/2013) Teaching Substitute, Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center, Covington, KY
Youth Clay: Hand-building
(04/2013) Teaching Assistant, Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center, Covington, KY
Youth Clay Workshop
PUBLICATIONS
Photography featured in the New York Times, "LOVE: Cynthia Shor, David Church", portrait of couple, November 25, 2018
COLLECTIONS
Alexandria Library, Alexandria, Egypt
In addition to her studio practice, Kaiser has curated more than 25 exhibitions across gallery, museum, and academic contexts, developing experimental and interdisciplinary projects that connect contemporary art, feminist inquiry, and public programming. She has led exhibitions, artist talks, and public programs that position the gallery as a site for dialogue, critical encounter, and community engagement.
As an educator and arts leader, Kaiser brings experience in curriculum development, interdisciplinary programming, artist support, and organizational leadership across nonprofit, academic, and gallery settings.
EDUCATION
2017 MFA in Studio Art, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
2011 BFA in Fine Art with minor in Art History, Cum Laude, Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, OH
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
(6/20/2026 - 8/8/2026) Group Exhibition, Independence for Whom: Amplifying Voices, Honoring Histories, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA (a historic venue and former suffragist prison)
(7/10/2026 8/1/2026) Solo Exhibition, Crystallized Innocence: The Fragility of Childhood in a Consuming World, Gallery 934, Columbus, OH
(01/2026 – 03/2026) Group Exhibition, Consider Fires, Heights Arts, Cleveland Heights, OH
(09/2025 – 11/2025) Group Exhibition, Process and Practice: Crafting Wellbeing, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI
(09/2025 – 10/2025) Group Exhibition, Crafted Couture, Valley Art Center, Chagrin Falls, OH
(09/2025) Solo Installation, The Confessional Womb, IngenuityFest: Forging the Future, Cleveland, OH
(07/2025 – 09/2025) Group Exhibition, Ohio Artist Registry 2025 Juried Exhibition, Patrick Losinski Gallery, Columbus, OH
(06/2025 – 07/2025) Group Exhibition, Down the Rabbit Hole, White Rabbit Galleries, Barberton, OH
(07/2024 – 09/2024) Group Exhibition, Descendants, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, OH
(10/2022) Group Exhibition, RESPONDING TO THE OVERTURN OF ROE V. WADE, anthropologyofmotherhood.com, virtual
(09/2022 – 11/2022) Group Exhibition, Feminist Biennial, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
(12/2020) Group Exhibition, Protest & Protect, Feminist Art Museum, virtual
(02/2020 – 03/2020) Group Exhibition, Fe Mail Art: 2020 Postcard Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (04/2017) Group Exhibition, *BODIES: MFA Thesis Exhibition*, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook, NY (01/2017) Group Exhibition, Alternatives in Clay, Patchogue Arts Gallery, Patchogue, NY
(09/2016) Solo Exhibition, OMother, Lawrence Alloway Memorial Gallery, Stony Brook, NY
(05/2016) Group Exhibition, Unbound; 7th International Book Art Biennial, Alexandria Library, Alexandria, Egypt
(03/2016) Solo Exhibition, Echoes: From the Mother, Lawrence Alloway Memorial Gallery, Stony Brook, NY
SELECTED SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
(02/2026) Panelist, Decency and Display: Censorship in the Exhibition of American Art, College Art Association
(11/2025) Panelist, The Future of Work in Art and Tech, Creative Meatup
(05/2025) Moderator, Art as Resistance: A Conversation with Women Who Create Change, Kaiser Studios
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
Kaiser has curated more than 25 exhibitions across gallery, museum, and academic contexts, with a focus on contemporary art, feminist discourse, public dialogue, and artist-centered programming.
- (09 - 10/2024) Curator, Dreams Never Made My Bed, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (07 - 09/2024) Co-curator, Descendants, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (05 - 06/2024) Curator, I Had Been Young, Vol. 4, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (03 - 05/2024) Consulting curator, Thin Line: Love/Hate Relationship with AI, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (02 - 03/2024) Curator, Look Closer!, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (12/2023 - 02/2024) Curator, Unsalted, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (11 - 12/2023) Curator, Arts Leadership Exhibition, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (10 - 11/2023) Curator, Entertwined, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (08 - 09/2023) Curator, Nowstalgia, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (06 - 08/2023) Curator, Common Thread: Contradictions, Questions, and Lies We Live By, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (04 - 06/2023) Curator, The Animal Kind, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (02 - 04/2023) Curator, Coveted III: Histories, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (12/2022 - 02/2023) Curator, Lateral Perspective, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (11 - 12/2022) Curator, Service Industry Stitch Project, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (10 - 11/2022) Curator, Leigh Brooklyn: All of Me, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (09 - 10/2022) Consulting curator, Borderlands, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (08 - 09/2022) Curator, Journey to Harvest, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (07 - 08/2022) Curator, Handful of Dream Dust, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (04 - 06/2022) Curator, Silent Fields, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (02 - 04/2022) Curator, Coveted II, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (12/2022 - 02/2022) Curator, Future Resonance, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (10 - 11/2021) Curator, Cut From The Same Cloth, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (08 - 10/2021) Curator, The Weight of Time, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (07 - 08/2021) Curator, Sugar (Chapter: II), Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (04 - 06/2021) Curator, Domestic Lands, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (02 - 04/2021) Curator, Coveted, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (02 - 12/2020) Curator, Switch, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- (01 - 04/2019) Curator, Walt Whitman's Prose and Poetry in Products and Advertisements, Walt Whitman Birthplace Association and Museum, Huntington, New York
- (01/2019) Consulting Curator, Camden County Historical Society, Camden, New Jersey
- (11/2018) Curator, O Workmen and Workwomen Forever for Me, Walt Whitman Birthplace Association and Museum, Huntington, New York
- (10/2018) Curator, Native Turf, Walt Whitman Birthplace Association and Museum, Huntington, New York
- (04/2017) Co-Graduate Curator, URECA (Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities) Exhibition, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES
(2025) Creative Impact Award
Assembly for the Arts, Cleveland, OH
(2024) Impact Award
Ingenuity Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
(2023) Community Impact Award
Tremont West Development Corporation, Cleveland, OH
(2022–2023) Arts Leadership Residency
Assembly for the Arts, Cleveland, OH
(2016–2017) Goldberger Fellowship
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
(2014–2017) Teaching Assistantship and Tuition Scholarship
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE / LEADERSHIP
(2026 – Present) Exhibitions Chair, Board Member (Member-at-Large), Women's Caucus for Art
(2025 – Present) Board Member, Collective Arts Network Journal, Cleveland, OH
(2025 - 2028) Appointed Member, Services to Artists Committee, College Art Association
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
(2025) Civic Leadership Institute, Cleveland Leadership Center
(2024) Accelerate: Citizens Make Change Pitch Competition, Participant, Cleveland Leadership Center, Cleveland, OH
TEACHING RECORD
(07/2018 - 02/2019) Art Instructor, East End Arts, Riverhead, NY
Renaissance Kid Camp, Drawing and Painting, Sculpture, and Mixed Media
(01/2018 - 04/2018) Adjunct Faculty, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY
(01/2015 - 05/2017) Instructor of Record, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Foundations of Drawing ARS 154
(08/2014 - 12/2014) Teaching Assistant, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Foundations of Drawing ARS 154
(04/2014) Visiting Instructing Artist, Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, OH
Ceramics ART 140
(02/2013 - 04/2014) Instructor, Middletown Arts Center, Middletown, OH
Art on the Go for Butler County Elementary Schools, Youth Drawing & Painting, and First Friday Sampler
(08/2013 - 09/2013) Instructor, Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center, Covington, KY
Adult Ceramic Art Tile Workshop
(06/2013) Teaching Substitute, Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center, Covington, KY
Youth Clay: Hand-building
(04/2013) Teaching Assistant, Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center, Covington, KY
Youth Clay Workshop
PUBLICATIONS
Photography featured in the New York Times, "LOVE: Cynthia Shor, David Church", portrait of couple, November 25, 2018
COLLECTIONS
Alexandria Library, Alexandria, Egypt