Jeremy Tarr

Biography

Jeremy Tarr is an instructor in the School of Art.

Tarr was born in 1989 to a blue-collar family and raised in the working class neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His undergraduate education is in printmaking and sculpture. In 2017, he received an Artist-in-Residency Fellowship, where he lived in Berlin, Germany, and had a studio at the Axel Haubrok Fahrbereitschaft collection.

Drawing on the decay within post-industrial settings, his work deals with the abandoned and vacant spaces and the new myths and narratives that arise in their place. He works in performance, video, sculpture, drawing, painting and photography.

Education

• M.F.A., Syracuse University 
• B.F.A., University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro