Tatiana Vahan (she/they) is an artist working at the intersection of art, research, and community organizing. Vahan creates collaborative frameworks that reimagine systems of power and inequity, as they exist in the artworld, using both pragmatic and poetic approaches. In 2017 she founded Bar-Fund an experimental public art project and grant-building initiative in which Los Angeles artists fundraised and distributed over $17,000 in unrestricted grants for fellow local artists as a solidarity economy. In 2018 she founded the Los Angeles Artist Census, a grass roots, artist-driven research initiative that gathers and publishes data about local artists’ quality of life and professional experiences. As an integral part of her creative and research practices, Vahan has also been exploring the materiality of the body through her professional bodywork practice, since 2002.

Vahan received an MA in Aesthetics and Politics from CalArts and a BFA in Visual Art from New World School of the Arts. Her artwork has been exhibited at Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (ICA LA), Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA NoMi), Bass Museum of Art, Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), and MDC Museum of Art + Design, among others. Her work has been written about in Hyperallergic, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (CARLA), LA Weekly, Los Angeles Magazine, and the Long Beach Post.