TARRAH KRAJNAK

Filter Photo is pleased to present the 2026 Filter Photo Festival Featured Evening Lecture by Tarrah Krajank. 

Tarrah Krajnak (b.1979, Lima, Peru) is an artist and educator based in Los Angeles. She is an Associate Professor of Art at UCLA, and is represented by Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne/Paris. Krajnak is currently based in Berlin as a research fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin through the academic year 2026. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d'Arles, the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, and most recently the 2025 Henri Cartier-Bresson Creation Award. She has published three books including El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan (DAIS 2021), Master Rituals II: Weston's Nudes (TBW 2022) and RePose (FW Books 2023). Krajnak’s work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Pinault Collection, Paris; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; and the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; among others. Recent solo exhibitions include Shadowings at the Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam; Body Configurations at the Frye Museum, Seattle; and RePose, ExPose, CounterPose currently on view at the Fondation A Stichting, Brussels through May 2026.