Leah Tacha

Leah Tacha (b. 1984, Lawrence, KS) lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY before moving back to Lawrence, KS. She received her BFA in Painting from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 2007 and her MFA from SUNY Purchase College in 2009. Her first solo exhibition in NY was curated by Jon Lutz at Sardine in Brooklyn, NY in 2014 and she had another solo show curated by Lutz at 106 Green Gallery in 2016.

She has shown with Morgan Lehman Gallery, SSD (Shrine & Sargent’s Daughters), Deanna Evans Projects, Daily Operation, Underdonk, RARE Gallery, New Baroque, and the Torrance Art Museum, among many others. In 2015 she was awarded the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop SIP Fellowship. In 2017 she was awarded a Windgate Fellowship from the Archie Bray Foundation. She is currently represented by Gold/Scopophilia* gallery and her second solo show with the gallery ran through January 2021. Her most recent solo show in NYC was with Morgan Lehman in October 2021.