Tali Halpern

Instagram: @totally.doomed

Website: http://tali.rocks/

Bio: Tali Halpern (b. 1994, Chicago, IL) lives and works in Chicago. Tali’s work explores the complexities of queerness, sexuality, desirability, gender, and its aesthetics as well as topics surrounding addiction and recovery through a mixed media fiber practice. Their work is informed by collage, exploring the layers of intersectionality in art, identity, spirituality and existence. Fiber is a soft medium in contrast with the often challenging themes in their work. Neither static nor flat, they are tactile and in direct relationship to the body. They use self-portraiture as witness to flesh, feelings, addictions, traumas, growth, and joy. Then through collage, they piece and mend the broken, unite the solitary, and combine completely different facets into one, in an attempt to heal. In sharing work about vulnerabilities, often deemed taboo and shameful by society, they reject shame while offering solace and connection to viewers alienated by similar struggles. Their works have been exhibited at Twelve Ten Gallery (Chicago), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Chicago) and de boer (Los Angeles), among others. MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA Hampshire College.