Tanya Minhas is a New York-based artist whose work investigates unseen elemental forces and the ephemeral nature of the world around us. She primarily works with paint, ink, and textile materials, treating paint like thread and approaching her practice as a form of embroidery. Through layered surfaces, she maps the interwoven relationships between nature, memory, and states of being, engaging recursive patterns observed in nature.
Her current work meditatively explores the harmony between the internal and the external, the visible and the invisible, the tangible and the elusive. She considers how phenomena such as water, air, and gravity shape both material landscapes and interior states. Through these explorations, Minhas examines how the strength of one’s intrinsic life force offers an impetus toward balance in an increasingly tempestuous external world.
Minhas was born in Multan and raised in Karachi, Pakistan. She received her BA from Princeton University, an MBA from Columbia University, and studied portrait painting at the Art Students League of New York. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions at Guild Hall, East Hampton; Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA; Chashama, New York; and TW Fine Art, Palm Beach. Public installations include projects for Joseph Editions Hotel, Nashville; Playtime New York at the Metropolitan Pavilion; and Drive-by-Art, Long Island. Her exhibitions and installations have been covered by The New York Times, Forbes, Smithsonian Magazine, Architectural Digest, and Town & Country.
“Each painting is about an invisible memory or impression left by the myriad forces in nature: a leaf falling to the earth displaces air as it falls, tracing an invisible pattern, that I can see with my heart, or my imagination, or whatever it is in myself that finds these moments important. And yet, I am unable to express the awe of it precisely with words.”- Tanya Minhas
