Tajh Rust

Through figuration and abstraction, Tajh Rust’s new body of work continues his exploration of the relationship between black identity and space. Rust collaborates with his subjects to determine how they are represented and also employs film and literary references to draw connections between portraiture, language, and modes of representation. While also taking inspiration from his own travels and imagination, the artist aims to manipulate the boundary between realism and surrealism.

Tajh Rust (b. 1989) is a visual artist based in New York and New Haven and a 2019 MFA graduate from the School of Art at Yale University. Rust received his bachelor's degree in Painting and Film from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York and he was in the inaugural group of artists participating in the Black Rock Senegal artist residency in August 2019. Since 2011, Rust's work has been exhibited at galleries and institutions including the August Wilson African American Cultural Center in Pittsburgh, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) in Brooklyn, the Bronx Art Space, Rush Arts Philadelphia, and Artspace in New Haven.

Where We Meet marks the artist's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.