Art
Tal’s sculptures, installations, and performances – both independently and as a member of the artist collective Occupy Museums – have been exhibited in major venues across the US and Europe, including the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Brooklyn Museum, and CCA Warsaw, earning mentions in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Art in America, among others. His curatorial projects – “Owning Earth,” “Sinking Cities,” and “Land and Time” – spotlight interdisciplinary responses to ecological uncertainty. He has lectured on art and social change at the Museum of Modern Art, Vrij Universiteit Amsterdam, and New York University. His articles on the impacts of arts funding models on cultural institutions have appeared in numerous publications. From 2016 to 2018, Tal was founding faculty at School of Apocalypse, a platform for interdisciplinary collaborations exploring creative practice and survival.
publications
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Curatorial ⟐ Performance ⟐ Sculpture + Installation ⟐ Video + Multimedia
Recent Work
Tusten Heritage Community Garden (Narrowsburg, NY)
Sep 23-Nov 8, 2021
Image: Eliza Evans
Unison Arts (New Paltz, NY)
Jun 26-Oct 20, 2022
An outdoor sculptural exhibition in which installations challenge notions of domination over our environments and imagine alternatives based on mutuality and reverence.
Image: Sam Spillman, Bad Mouth (2021)
Jewish Museum of Maryland (Baltimore, MD)
Mar 24 – May 18, 2021
An outdoor installation and online space to gather testimonials from Maryland residents who have had to say goodbye or memorialize their loved ones under conditions of social distancing.
516 Arts (Albuquerque, NM)
Nov 17, 2018 – Feb 23, 2019
LABA Live | 14th Street Y (New York City)
Mar 22, 2018
Atlas Studios (Newburgh, NY)
Dec 10, 2017
A 6-hour multi-part discussion event bringing together a diverse range voices and perspectives—artists, real estate developers, historians, activists, and others—to discuss the past, present, and future of Newburgh. Each hour, new invited guests were introduced to act as thematic anchors.
Atlas Studios (Newburgh, NY)
A Momenta Art Exhibition
Co-curated with Eric Heist
Nov 4-Dec 17, 2017
Image: Alison Moritsugu
Dolly Maass Gallery (Purchase College, NY)
Apr 5-19, 2017
A multimedia installation inspired by research and speculation into the nature of contemporary institutions, and the language, aesthetics, and assumptions governing their behaviors.
Purchase College Center for Community and Culture (Yonkers, NY)
Co-curated with Steven Lam
Apr 15-29, 2017
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)
Mar 13-Jun 11, 2017
Debtfair (a project of Occupy Museums) is a means of exposing the hidden layer of debt within the art market and its institutions, making visible the relationships between art practices and financial realities in the U.S.
Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY)
2016
Dolly Maass Gallery (Purchase College, NY)
2016
Art League Houston (Houston, TX)
Nov 20, 2015 - Jan 10, 2016
Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial Sculpture Garden (Philadelphia, PA)
Oct 10, 2015
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
Apr 26, 2015
A group of 12 artists and scientists assembled for an eight-hour performance in the Roman Sculpture Court, delving into democratic origin myths through discussion, movement, sketching, and play.
Outdoor Installation (Liberty, NY)
2014-2017
Stoneware, 25 x 8 x 12 inches. Exhibited at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York City. (Collaboration with Pawel Althamer, Aga Schroeder, and artists from the Bowery Mission.) 2014.