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Tarrah Krajnak (born 1979) is an American artist who works with photography, performance, and poetry. In 2020 she received the Lange-Taylor Prize. Krajnak's work is held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pinault Collection, Paris and Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Krajnak was born in an orphanage in Lima, Peru in 1979 and adopted by Slovak Americans as a baby. [2] [3]
As of 2023 [update] , she lives in Eugene, Oregon where she works an assistant professor of art at the University of Oregon. [4]
Krajnak's work is held in the following permanent collections:
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