Tara Fay Coleman is an artist, independent curator, writer, and cultural worker from Buffalo, New York. Her work considers how power shapes what is seen, and what is left out or obscured. Working across writing, performance, and curatorial practice, she returns to questions of visibility, legibility, and who controls meaning.

Her practice is rooted in lived experience and often takes form through text, image, performance, and staged encounters that resist easy interpretation. She frequently places her own body within the work, treating it as an object to be looked at, read, or misread. Through this approach, she examines systems of racialization and social performance, while resisting fixed narratives around Black identity and experience.

As a curator, Tara Fay works in close dialogue with artists, developing projects attentive to presence, and to the conditions that allow work to exist without being over-explained. She is committed to centering Black cultural production without requiring it to account for itself, and her curatorial practice prioritizes experimentation, criticality, and care.

Her writing moves between critical reflection and personal narrative, shaped by memory, place, and lived experience. Drawing from her background in arts administration and cultural work, she approaches criticism as both an analytical and embodied practice.

Coleman has been the recipient of a Pittsburgh Foundation Advancing Black Arts Grant, and has participated in the Chautauqua School of Art Residency. She is currently a Curatorial Fellow at NXTHVN.

Tara Fay currently lives and works between Pittsburgh and New Haven.