About the Artist

Tanya Miao Sun is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, sound, and dance. Her experimental practice utilizes a diverse range of media including charcoal, ink, acrylic, oil, wood, fabric, leather, metal, and found objects. She prioritizes the physical materiality of these elements, seeking to preserve the original state of matter while mapping the intersection of tactile objects and the kinetic logic of the body.

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Driven by a curiosity about how systems fail and reorganize, Sun’s work operates in the critical space between order and disorder, fueled by an appreciation for the origin of the materials she employs. Her practice is an exploration into the possibilities of combining disparate mediums, from heavy metals to fluid ink, to observe how they resist or accept human intervention. Rather than imposing a fixed resolution, she allows the work to emerge from the material’s own logic. In her recent series, she investigates the struggle of human structures to maintain form against a universal movement toward disorder. She documents the moment a machine, a system, or a body reaches its breaking point and returns to its true, honest state.

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Tanya Miao Sun has exhibited at Art Share L.A., the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery in New York, the Boone Family Art Gallery and V-Gallery at PCC. She is a recipient of the 149th Merit Scholarship from the Art Students League of New York and the Ruth Estes Bissiri Memorial Scholarship in Los Angeles. Through her ongoing study of the intersections between different mediums, she is integrating her background in dance to explore the body as a structural medium, turning internal inquiry into a definitive, physical record of existence.