Tajh Rust

Tajh Rust (b. 1989) is a visual artist based in New York. He received his MFA from Yale in 2019 and bachelors degree from in painting and film from Cooper Union. Rust was in the inaugural group of artists participating in the Black Rock Senegal residency in August 2019. Rust's first solo exhibition with Matthew Brown, Where We Meet, opened in 2020.

Recent group exhibitions include A Face Like Mine, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT (2021); and I will wear you in my heart of heart, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY (2019); Permutations, Sibler Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD (2019); Vernacular Interior, Hales Gallery, New York, NY (2019); Conjuring Wholeness in the Wake of Rupture, De Buck Gallery, New York, NY (2019); Again, Always, Yale University, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT (2019); Interwoven, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY (2018); In Plain Sight/Site, Artspace, New Haven, CT (2018); Familiar Boundaries. Infinite Possibilities, August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, PA (2018); Strange Beach, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY (2018); Mirrored By Nature, Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2018); Giving Up the Ghost: Artifacts/A Study of Power and Solidarity Against White Violence in Modernity, Rush Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA (2018).