Tabitha Soren

Tabitha Soren explores the expansive power of photography by pushing its material limits and embracing its unreliable nature. She probes the surface of the photograph to unlock the rich history of the medium and experiments with sculptural and painterly interventions to further complicate the inherent uncertainty of the picture. This layered approach underscores not only the bounds of the viewer’s perception but also makes visible the psychological states of Soren’s subject matter, creating a tension between what is seen and what lies underneath.

Soren was born in 1967 in San Antonio, Texas and lived in 7 U.S. states, Germany and the Philippines during her formative and adolescent years. She received her degree in 1989 from New York University and was awarded a fellowship from Stanford University in 1997. Solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH; The Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA; Oakland Museum of California, and others. Select group exhibitions include SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA; Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AK; Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Aperture Gallery, New York, NY; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA; The Arnolfini, Bristol, UK; New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; and the ArkDes Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

Soren’s work is in many private and 24 public collections including the National Gallery in Washington DC, National Gallery of Ireland, the J. Paul Getty Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the de Young Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museum of Fine Art Houston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Her work has been written about in The New Yorker,The Washington Post, Hyperallergic, ArtNet, The Boston Globe, British Journal of Photography, Newsweek, and the Guardian, among others. Books include Fantasy Life (Aperture), Trace (Yoffy Press) and Surface Tension (RVB Books). She lives in Berkeley, California with her family.

Starting Prices:
30 x 40 inch archival pigment print
Edition of 5
$8,000 + mounting and framing

48 x 60 inch archival pigment print
Edition of 5
$14,000 + mounting and framing

60 x 80 inch archival pigment print
Edition of 3
$18,000 + mounting and framing