Apollo & Daphne installation view

mixed, dimensions vary, 2025

Installation view of Apollo & Daphne installation exploring rape archetypes. To the left, Daphne's Verse, on the right is Allegory of Persistence, at the back is Metamorphosis in Touch. Currently on exhibit and then will travel. Not available for exhibition until October 20th, 2025.

I'm a visual Jungian, exploring figures as hubs of myths, archetypes, and histories. My studio is a laboratory where I delve into archetypal images with the body as an active agent reflecting cultural substance.Through painting, drawing, film, performance, and installation, I channel myth, memory, and embodiment. My work speaks in a visual patois—interweaving personal and communal histories to confront dominant narratives of war, sexual hierarchies, and racism, demanding critical engagement.

Tatiana Garmendia was born in Cuba during the Cold War. In her work, history is understood as meditations on national and private mythologies, as the stories we tell others and whisper to ourselves. She has exhibited her work throughout the US and in many countries. She is the recipient of numerous awards including two Artist Trust Fellowships, the Cintas International Fellowship and Pollock Krasner Grant. Her works are in public collections in Seattle, New York, Washington D.C., Miami, Illinois, California, Ohio, and the Dominican Republic.