Tamar Ettun
Tamar Ettun (she/they) creates immersive textile installations, sculptures, drawings, videos, and performances that reflect on somatic empathy – the process of responding to others through sensory-based, embodied experiences – in relation to trauma-healing and ritual. She has exhibited and performed at The Ford Foundation, The Walker Art Center, Pioneer Works, The Chinati Foundation, The Shelburne Museum, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, The Watermill Center, Art Omi Sculpture Garden, PERFORMA, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Jewish Museum, and Sculpture Center.
Ettun received many awards and fellowships including support from The Pollock Krasner Foundation, Interlude Artist Residency, Fountainhead, Moca Tucson, Stoneleaf Retreat, MacDowell Fellowship, Franklin Furnace, Iaspis, Art Production Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Triangle Arts Association, Abrons Art Center and RECESS. Ettun is the founder of The Moving Company, an artist collective that created performances in public spaces, and a social engagement project with Brooklyn teens hosted by The Brooklyn Museum.
Amongst other long term projects, Ettun’s multidisciplinary work Lilit the Empathic Demon has since 2020 explored the insidious side of empathy, empathy fatigue, trauma-healing modalities, and astrology as storytelling through text messages to a growing community. Ettun’s work has most recently been included in the new sculpture anthology “Great Women Sculptors” published by Phaidon Press (2024). She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University. Ettun is the Teiger Mentor in the Arts at Cornell University in spring 2025.
