Tarrah Krajnak Body Configurations (Lima) 01, 2024
Gelatin silver print reproduced on vinyl
12 x 12 ft
Presented by Frye Art Museum
For the 2025 Seattle Art Fair, the Frye Art Museum is proud to showcase a new work from internationally recognized artist Tarrah Krajnak. In this photograph, the artist poses in her birthplace of Lima, Peru to question how her body fits among the metropolis’s modern, colonialist buildings.
This work is part of the Frye’s biannual Boren Banner Series, which gives regional artists the opportunity to present a piece as a monumental, 16 x 20 ft. vinyl “banner” alongside an exhibition of related works inside the museum. The billboard-size artwork is prominently sited facing Boren Avenue, the Frye’s most visible and accessible physical interface, and for a limited time will also be visible at the Seattle Art Fair.
About the Artist
Tarrah Krajnak (b. Lima, Peru 1979) is an artist working across photography, performance, and poetry. Krajnak is currently based in Los Angeles. She is an Associate Professor of Art at UCLA, and is represented by Zander Galerie, Cologne/Paris. Krajnak is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, and was recently awarded the Jury Prize of the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles, a Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies, the Hariban Grand Prize, from Benrido, Kyoto, Japan, and The Lewis Baltz Research Award from Le Bal, Paris. Krajnak has published three books including El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan (DAIS 2021), Master Rituals II: Weston’s Nudes (TBW 2022) and RePose (FW Books 2023). Her work was featured in recent issues of Aperture, British Journal of Photography, The Eyes Journal, and European Photography. Krajnak’s work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Pinault Collection, Paris, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Huis Marseille Museum of Photography, Amsterdam, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, among others.