Tarrah Krajnak is an artist working across photography, performance, and poetry. Krajnak was born in Lima, Peru in 1979. She is represented by Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany. Krajnak is the recipient of the Jury Prize of the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d'Arles, and a Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies. Her book El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan was shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo First Book Award in 2021 and named to MoMA's inaugural list of ten photo books of the year. Krajnak’s photographs are held in numerous collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, Centre Pompidou, Museum Ludwig, and the Pinault. Her work has been published and reviewed in Aperture, Artforum, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles among others. Krajnak’s work is supported by a 2022 Howard Foundation Fellowship and a Lewis Baltz Research Fund Award. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Oregon, and an artist-in-residence with Unseen California. She currently lives/works between Eugene, OR and Los Angeles, CA.