Gene Tanta is a Romanian-born American artist and poet working across painting, poetry, translation, and public exchange. A two-time Fulbright grantee to Romania, he holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. His work explores color, migration, memory, and the politics of language.

Are paintings available?

Selected paintings and works on paper may be available by inquiry. Availability changes as works move between the studio, exhibitions, collections, and ongoing bodies of work. For acquisitions, studio visits, or specific works, please send a note through the contact form.

Are prints and editions available?

Prints, editions, publications, and related studio works are developed selectively. Some works may be available directly, while others are offered by inquiry or through small-run releases. Editions extend the studio practice through forms that can circulate beyond a single exhibition or private collection.

Can I visit the studio?

Studio visits are available by request when there is a clear fit with the work. Curators, collectors, writers, educators, students, and collaborators are welcome to send a note through the contact form with a short description of the context and timing.

What is Found Art Studio?

Found Art Studio is the mobile physical studio and public-facing arm of Gene Tanta's practice. It gathers residencies, workshops, educational projects, access initiatives, studio visits, and temporary working sites under one flexible studio name. Instead of naming a single address, it names a way the work moves: through making, teaching, hosting, gathering, and exchange.

LogicHum.com is a separate project space for Gene Tanta's related digital work, including apps, games, tools, AI systems, and other interactive forms. GeneTanta.com remains the home for paintings, works on paper, books, editions, biography, CV, and the public-facing art practice.

Do you take commissions or collaborations?

Commissions and collaborations are considered when there is a strong fit with the work. This may include paintings, texts, educational projects, curatorial, editorial, games, or experimental projects developed in dialogue with a person, site, institution, or public context. The best inquiries are specific, open, and grounded in a real relationship to the work.

How should curators, collectors, or institutions reach out?

Curators, collectors, publishers, educators, and administrators are welcome to send a note through the contact form. For exhibitions, acquisitions, studio visits, commissions, workshops, speaking engagements, press, or institutional projects, please include a short note about the context, timeline, and nature of the inquiry.

Refracted Language | Gene Tanta, Text, Painting, Translation

Language does its thing. Turning an idea out. Turning in an idea. Feelings get in the way. Feelings get out. Art finds the most beautiful path to get in the way. Form isn’t an accident. Form is sediment.

Refracted Language is a series of text-based works about translation, erosion, attention, and the instability of meaning.