Tajh Rust is a visual artist based in New York. He received his MFA from Yale School of Art in 2019 and BFA from The Cooper Union in 2011.
Solo exhibitions include Reflections, Palm Springs Art Museum (2023); Somewhere in Between, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2022); and Where We Meet, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2020).
Recent group exhibitions include Becoming the Sea, Harvey B. Gantt Center (2024); Return the Gaze, Kansas City Art Institute, (2023); Fire Figure Fantasy, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami (2022); Open Call, The Shed, New York (2021); and I will wear you in my heart of heart, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2021); A Face Like Mine, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT (2021); Permutations, Sibler Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD (2019); Vernacular Interior, Hales Gallery, New York (2019); and Familiar Boundaries. Infinite Possibilities, August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, PA (2018).
Contact
Tajh Rust
tajhrust.studio@gmail.com
@tajhrust
Education
- 2019 MFA, Yale University, School of Art, New Haven, CT
- 2011 BFA, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
Designed by Albert Hicks IV & Marcus Washington Jr.
Residencies & Awards
- 2023 Alma | Lewis
- 2022 Silver Art Projects, New York, NY
- 2020 Open Call, The Shed, New York, NY
- The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
- 2019 Black Rock, Dakar, Senegal
- 2018 Institute of Investigative Living at A-Z West, Joshua Tree, CA
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
- 2025 A Direct Response To Light, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
- When the Mountains Dance with the Ocean, Bode, Cape Town, South Africa
- 2024 ALL STARS: A Constellation of 10 Resident Artists, ALMA | LEWIS, Pittsburgh, PA
- Becoming the Sea, Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC
- Cross Currents, Micki Meng, San Francisco, CA
- Postcards From the Edge, Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY
- 2023 Clear Views from 28, NYC Culture Club, New York, NY
- Return the Gaze, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
- 2022 Family Dinner: The Deep Connection of American Lived Experience, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI
- Black Rock 40, Douta Seck, Dakar, Senegal
- Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami's Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL
- 2021 Open Call, The Shed, New York, NY
- and I will wear you in my heart of heart, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
- A Face Like Mine, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
- Free as Air and Water, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT (guest curator)
- 2020 For Which It Stands, Ford Foundation Gallery & Assembly Room, New York, NY
- 2019 Permutations, Sibler Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
- Vernacular Interior, Hales Gallery, New York, NY
- Again, Always, Yale University, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
- 2018 In Plain Sight/Site, Artspace, New Haven, CT
- Familiar Boundaries. Infinite Possibilities, August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, PA
- Strange Beach, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
- Mirrored By Nature, Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- Giving Up the Ghost: Artifacts/A Study of Power and Solidarity Against White Violence in Modernity, Rush Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
- 2017 Winterfly Benefit, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY
- Black At Yale, Yale University, Afro-American Cultural Center Gallery, New Haven, CT
- Make___Place, The New York Immigrant Coalition, New York, NY
- Voices Need Heroes, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY
- 2016 Speak Out, Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY
News
- 2025 BODE | In Conversation With Tajh Rust | Episode 37
- 2024 Open Air: Artist Talk with Tajh Rust, Harvey B. Gantt Center
- Jude's List, Tajh Rust: My Reflection In Water
- 2022 Juxtapoz, Somewhere in Between: Tajh Rust @ Matthew Brown, LA
- 2021 OPEN CALL Between Artists: Nazareth Hassan and Tajh Rust
- Financial Times, We all need to have our stories heard
- Painting in Text, The Human Subject and Painting
- 2020 T Magazine, The Greats, Angela Davis
- Artsy, These Emerging Black Artists Are the Future of Figurative Painting
- 2019 ARTFORUM, Critics’ Picks, Vernacular Interior
- Art of Choice, TAJH RUST PUTS HIS ATTENTION ON THE PRIVATE SPHERE
- Hyperallergic, Reimagining Home, From the Mundane to Mythic
Designed by Albert Hicks IV & Marcus Washington Jr.