Tanya Marcuse is an American photographer, born in 1964 in New York. She began making photographs as an early college student at Bard College at Simon's Rock, studied art history and studio art at Oberlin College and earned her MFA at Yale in 1990. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley and is an Associate Professor of Photography at Bard College.
In 2005 she began the fourteen-year project Fruitless | Fallen | Woven, moving from serial photographs of fruit trees to large tableaux built on the forest floor; the Woven photographs are as large as 5 x 14 feet. Her books include Undergarments and Armor (Nazraeli Press, 2005), Wax Bodies (Nazraeli Press, 2012), Fruitless | Fallen | Woven (Radius Books, 2019), Ink (Fall Line Press, 2021), Portent (Nazraeli Press, 2024) and Deer (2026).
She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, a Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant and two MacDowell Fellowships. Her work is in collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the George Eastman Museum.
