Tara Wray
Woodstock, VT, USA
Tara Wray (b. 1978) is an American photographer, writer, and filmmaker. Her first monograph, “Too Tired for Sunshine,” was published by Yoffy Press in 2018. Recently she founded the Too Tired Project, a photo initiative helping those struggling with depression by offering a platform for collective creative expression and community.
Her work has been featured on NPR, The Washington Post, VICE, Huff Post, and others, and is held in the permanent collections of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the George Eastman Museum Library, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, and the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame.
Recent or forthcoming solo exhibitions of "Too Tired for Sunshine" will be held at Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY and McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL. Selections from “Too Tired for Sunshine” will be featured in the group exhibition How to Live and Survive in the Countryside at Museum Hundertwasser, Vienna, Austria, as part of the inaugural FOTO WIEN festival.
Born and raised in Kansas, Wray graduated from New York University where she studied documentary filmmaking. She is director of two feature length documentaries: "Manhattan, Kansas" (SXSW 2006; Film Society of Lincoln Center) and Cartoon College (2012).
Wray lives and works in Vermont.
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