Tashi Fay is an artist whose practice encompasses painting, collage, sculpture, and installation, although she primarily uses painting to set the stage for her bizarre and dreamlike narratives. Mining the visual depths of her experiences with insomnia, nightmares, vivid dreaming, and sleep paralysis, Fay extracts symbolic arrangements, figures, and other objects from the unconscious, which, when activated as subjects in her work, press a psychic nerve in both artist and viewer. Fay’s background in textiles and collaging is seen throughout her small-scale, oil-on-panel paintings, which maintain stark outlines, a playful two-dimensionality, and lush, contrasting textures. Combining her talent for color with her keen sense of the cinematic, she depicts strange scenarios: from red, fleshily-rendered bedsheets that marry beauty with horror to an image of Alice in Wonderland’s blue-and-white frock billowing gently over a lemony exterior, retaining the stiff contours of her body. The peculiar and unsettled reverberate through Fay’s artworks, ringing with a dark and hilarious truth, at once the artist’s own yet resonant to all.

Tashi Fay was born in 1992 in Los Angeles, CA, where she lives. She received her BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in Provincetown, RI (2014).

She has participated in recent exhibitions at Leila Greiche LLC at Casa Ishi in Miami, FL (2024); No Agency x Café Forgot at The Salon by NADA & The Community in Paris, France (2024); SARA’S in New York, NY (2024); The Horse Hospital in London, UK (2023); and 15 Orient (2019), among others. She lives and works in Los Angeles.