PARSONS FINE ARTS

Tamar Ettun (she/they) creates sculpture, video and and performances often using textile that reflect on somatic experiences in relation to trauma healing rituals.
Ettun is a 2025-2026 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, where she is researching how contemporary female artists engage with themes of pregnancy, birth and motherhood through the intersections of bodily autonomy, reproductive health and protective practices. She received support from The Pollock Krasner Foundation, Interlude Artist Residency, Stoneleaf, Fountainhead, Moca Tucson, MacDowell, Franklin Furnace, Iaspis, Art Production Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Triangle Arts Association, Abrons Art Center and RECESS.
Ettun’s research-based and community engaged work was exhibited and performed at Museum of Art and Design, The Ford Foundation, The Walker Art Center, Pioneer Works, The Chinati Foundation, The Shelburne Museum, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, The Watermill Center, Art Omi Sculpture Garden, PERFORMA, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Jewish Museum, and Sculpture Center.
Ettun is the founder of The Moving Company, an artist collective that created performance art with sculpture in public spaces, and a social engagement project with Brooklyn teens hosted by The Brooklyn Museum.
Ettun’s newest film IVF Documents is on view as part of Designing Motherhood at MAD Museum. She is currently developing a public project in collaboration with asylum seeking mothers from Brooklyn shelter commissioned by ArtBridge. Her work has been included in the new sculpture anthology “Great Women Sculptors” published by Phaidon Press (2024). She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University. Ettun is the Teiger Mentor in the Arts at Cornell University in spring 2025.