I’m a multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam, working across photography, film, installation, and artist books. My practice moves between documentary and imagination, often combining cinematic, performative, and sensory elements.

With an extensive background in documentary photography and filmmaking, I’ve been working independently since 1999 for newspapers, magazines, creative agencies, and commercial clients. Over the years, my work evolved from documentary storytelling into more hybrid forms situated between visual art, film, and installation.

My projects often begin with intimate human stories and moments of emotional displacement. I’ve made work about an 80-year-old woman coming out late in life, young people writing deeply personal love letters, and women in China navigating changing ideas around love and expectation. In recent years, my practice has increasingly shifted towards film and multimedia installations.

My work has been presented internationally at institutions and festivals including the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Rencontres d’Arles, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Technische Sammlungen Dresden, and the Powerlong Art Center.

My artist book Perfect Pearl was shortlisted for the Prix du Livre at Rencontres d’Arles and selected for Best Dutch Book Design.

Since 2020, I’ve co-directed and curated Buy My Darlings together with Martijn van de Griendt, a photography platform and festival supporting emerging and established artists through exhibitions, talks, portfolio reviews, and coaching.

Alongside my artistic practice, I work as a mentor and coach for artists and students developing projects in photography, film, and installation.

In 2026, I joined the Documentary Film committee of the NPO Fund as an advisor.

Tara’s work is supported by; Amsterdams Fonds Voor de Kunst, Amarte fonds, Stichting Stokroos, Tijlfonds/ Cultuurfonds, PPO Werktuig, Vevam Directors Fund, Dutch Film Fund and Mondriaan Fund.

Tara’s work on Gallery Viewer.

EXHIBITIONS AND VIEWINGS:

2026 Group show at Fondazione Maddalena Di Giacomo,Venice. 

2026 LEVARE installation at Kunstmuseum Den Haag.

2025 BUY MY DARLINGS LET LOVE RULE edition, Amsterdam

2024 Perfect Pearl book at Bigger Art Book Fair, Dongguan, China.

2024/25 I’m Sorry- Film installation with sculpture, Powerlong Art Centre, Xiamen China.

2024 Night 1895. ARS LONGA contemporary art museum, Iceland.

2024 Women in Art. De Hallen, Mercatorplein, Westerpark Amsterdam. March 1-31

2023 Perfect Pearl book at Best Dutch Book Design in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

2023 Almost There- Film / photo sculpture installation at UNBOUND curated exhibition Amsterdam

2023 I Write This Letter in Bed- Film-installation at Der Greif at Pinakothek der Moderne & ZIRKA, Munchen

2023 BUY MY DARLINGS LOVE edition, Amsterdam

2023 I Write This Letter in Bed- Film-installation at gallery Caroline O’Breen Amsterdam

2023 Perfect Pearl at Tropic Bound Artists’ Book Fair, Miami Florida USA

2022 Mobile Home Film-installation at BIG ART Amsterdam

2022 Perfect Pearl the book at Prix du Livre, Espace van Gogh, Rencontres D’Arles

2022 Perfect Pearl the book at Athens Photo Festival & Encontros de Imagem Portugal

2022 Perfect Pearl at Nuit de L’Année, Rencontres D’Arles

2022 Mobile Home at Rolling Snowball #15, Iceland.

2022 Perfect Pearl at Portraits Hellerau in the Technical Collections Museum in Dresden.

2021 The Love Line, solo show at The Dutch Portrait Studio

2021 Perfect Pearl, solo show Guernsey Photography Festival. (Postponed to Dec 2022)

2020 Living on the Edge, Sharjah Art Foundation, Arabic Emirates.

2020 Love Letters film, AFSAD Festival in Ankara

2020 Love Sick short dance film at Dance film festival SPACE in Pittsburgh

2020 Over The Rainbow and women portraits, Solo show at Vizualizator Festival Belgrade

2019 Wild Poppy, Prix de la Photographie, Paris

2019 Wild Poppy Love me Tender at Docfield Barcelona, SOLAR Festival Brazil and Lagos Festival Nigeria.

2019 Wild Poppy at Photo Festival Naarden.

2019 LOVE SICK short dance film at Leiden experimental Film festival.

2018 Today, Tomorrow, Forever video installation, solo exhibition at C.E.A.C, Xiamen, China

2018 LOVE LETTERS film, The Helsinki International Film Festival- Love and Anarchy

2017 LOVE LETTERS, photography and video installation, Photo Festival Naarden.

2017 LOVE LETTERS film, IDFA, Sleepwalkers Film Festival Estonia, Eindhovens Filmfestival, The Atlantic Selects

2017 LOUIS THE FERRIS WHEEL KID at Movies that Matter Go Short, Nijmegen

2016 OVER THE RAINBOW at Berlin Short Film Festival, PINK APPLE filmfestival, Zürich, Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney.

2015 OVER THE RAINBOW at NYC Independent Film Festival, MIX Copenhagen, Denmark. Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht, Festival Asterisco, Buenos Aires, Hot Docs Toronto International Premiere, Roze Filmdagen World Premiere. Jury Award Best Documentary and Audience Award.

2015 Gedanst. Permanent exhibition at Korzo theater The Hague.

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Education: film and visual arts at the Netherlands Film Academy and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, as well as at the Carnegie Mellon University in the US. She was selected for residencies in China (C.E.A.C) and Japan (Atlantic Centre for the Arts with Nan Goldin).

Photo by Suzanne Karsters