Tauba works in multiple media and formats, curious about structure and connectivity on the microscopic to the cosmic scale. Building on crafts in many disciplines, they often invent tools and techniques to induce or exaggerate material behaviors. Their work moves freely between painting, weaving, glass, photography, video, calligraphy and musical instrument design.

Tauba's work forages for information about the universe embedded in form and movement. Work springs from observations about how soap bubbles naturally organize themselves into foam, how liquids flow, or how sand changes state with heat. So-called “laws of nature” are deployed and exploited to coax out patterns and their dissolution. Making objects and images is both the result of, and part of research.

The idiosyncrasies and imperfections of gesture are both allowed and explored. The artist’s drawings merge disciplined repetition with improvisation and looseness. Various atypical painting processes balance choreography and chance.

Alongside making exhibitions and outdoor work, in 2013 Tauba started the imprint Diagonal Press as a holder for their ongoing typography and book-making practice.

Their first exhibition with Esther Schipper will take place in September 2025 on occasion of Berlin Art Week.

Tauba continues to be represented by Paula Cooper Gallery, New York and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo.

Tauba Auerbach was born 1981, in San Francisco, California. They studied Visual Arts at Stanford University, California. The artist lives and works in New York. In 2008, Tauba received the Eureka Fellowship at the Fleischhacker Foundation, and in the same year won the SECA Art Awards at SFMOMA. In 2011, they became an Artists Research Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. In 2016, they won the Queen Sonja Print Award. In 2024 Auerbach was commissioned to present a permanent installation, Foam, at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s Art Park in Guarene.

photo: Lance Brewer