Tamar Charney is a multidisciplinary artist weaving together photography, writing, and audio storytelling. Her work explores the relationship between landscape, memory, and the psychology of normalization. She creates monochromatic cyanotype landscapes that examine how environmental threats and disappearing histories gradually recede from public awareness. Her latest body of work draws on a decades-long photographic engagement with Little Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan to probe how environmental anxiety, memory, and mediated perception shape our relationship to place. Earlier projects investigated the intersections of surveillance, myth, and personal memory.
EXHIBITIONS:
First Place Award, Juried Exhibition, “Statewide Photography Contest”, NCCA- Artspace, Fremont MI (May - July, 2026) Lora Robertson Juror
Invitational Exhibition, “The Art of Democracy”, 22 North Gallery, Ypsilanti MI (April - May 2026)
Invitational Exhibition, “Symbiotic Sound Design”, The Gallery at WCC, Ypsilanti MI (March - May 2026)
Group Exhibition, “Drawn to Nature”, Jordan River Arts Center, East Jordan MI (October - November 2024)
Solo Exhibition, "Thoughts and Memories of Being Watched", 22 North Gallery, Ypsilanti MI (July 2024)
Group Exhibition, “Capturing the North”, Jordan River Arts Center October, East Jordan MI (June 2024)
Solo Exhibition, “Thoughts and Memories of Surveillance", Argus Museum, Ann Arbor MI (April - Jun 2023)
Public Art, “Thoughts and Memories of Surveillance”, ArtPrize/Satellite Collective projections, Grand Rapids MI (September 2022)
Solo Exhibition, "Through a Russian Lens", Argus Museum, Ann Arbor MI (October 2019 - January 2020).
Group Exhibition, “Harpeth Hall Alumnae Art Exhibition”, Patton Visual Arts Center, Nashville TN, (Feb - March 2021 & 2025)
PHOTOGRAPHY AND/OR VISUAL ARTWORK PUBLICATIONS:
Midwestern Gothic
Michigan Quarterly Review
Journal of Arts & Letters
Walloon Writers Review
Bear River Writers
National Public Radio (NPR)
Michigan Radio
The World from Public Radio International (PRI)
ESSAY & FICTION PUBLICATIONS
Michigan Quarterly Review
Walloon Writers Review
Bear River Writers
Equus Magazine
National Public Radio (NPR)
Michigan Radio
The World from Public Radio International (PRI)