ABOUT ME
Education:
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Metropolitan State University. Fine Art Minor, 2001
Magazine:
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Alter/Analog - alter-analog.com
Solo Exhibitions:
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2025 - Beauty Out of Mayhem, Month of Photography Denver - Bardo Coffeehouse
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2018 - Englewood Public Library, Englewood, CO
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2018 - CHUMP Pop Up Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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2017 - Bardo Coffehouse, Denver, CO
Selected Group Exhibitions:
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2023 - SNAPPED - Month of Photography Denver, Spectra Art Space, Denver, CO
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2022 - Tiny Art Big Ideas, Spectra Art Space, Denver, CO
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2022 - Colorado Vibes 8, Spectra Art Space, Denver, CO
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2022 - Colorado Vibes 7, Spectra Art Space, Denver, CO
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2021 - SNAPPED - Month of Photography Denver, Spectra Art Space, Denver, CO
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2020 - Plantopia, Spectra Art Space, Denver, CO
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2019 - Inaugural, SAMple Gallery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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2019 - Colorado Vibes, Spectra Art Space, Denver, CO
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2019 - Spun Sugar, Federal Coffee, Denver, CO
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2019 - Deconstruction, Studio Altieri, Denver, CO
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2019 - Month of Photography Denver Exhibit, MegaFauna, Denver, CO
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2018 - Member’s Show, Depot Art Gallery, Littleton, CO
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2018 - 100 Monkeys, Art Circus, Denver, CO
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2017 - The Brew on Broadway, Englewood, CO
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2017 - Tammy Cromer PHOTO | GALLERY 7th Annual Holga & Friends Out of the Box International Photography Competition Dallas, TX
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2017 - Denver Art Society Group Art Show, City Hall, Jersey City, NJ
Online Exhibitions:
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2019 - Film Without Frontiers “Deliquesce”
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2018 - BeAnalogic “Series: Denver Soaked by Tania Kaaz”
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2018 - Mother F Stop “Tania Kaaz”
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2018 - Underexposed “Rural Decay”
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2017 - PRYME Editions “Happy Accidents” Group Exhibition
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2017 - Lenscratch “The 2017 Photographic Conversations Exhibition”
Publications and Media:
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Film Soup Community Cookbook
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Rat World Magazine Issue 3
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Founder and contributor. ALTER/ANALOG online and print magazine
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“Snow Dog, Lighting Penguin.” revolog film 2018 calendar. November and December 2018
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“Botanical Dreamscapes.” ArtAscent. December 2017
Honors and Awards:
Honorable Mention: Abstract. Chromatic Awards International Color Photography Contest 2018
Member of the Following Organizations:
Denver Press Club, Joined 2025
Month of Photography Denver, Joined 2019
BEHIND THE LENS
Since a very young age, I've been interested in art, enjoying museums and exhibits. When I was 11 years old, I got a rare form of muscular dystrophy, which partially paralyzed me, forcing me go through the world at a very slow pace. This caused me to see the minute things many people would normally miss and made me mindful of my surroundings. I started chronicling them through art. I soon started taking black and white photographs with 35mm film, mesmerized at the details I could capture that other people missed, things like the texture of masonry or the pattern of rust on a dumpster. After high school, I went into remission, but my passion remained for the things unseen by most.
I continued shooting black and white photos for two semesters at the University of Colorado. During this time, as digital photography was just starting to become popular, I appreciated analog photography more than ever. With film, I have a limited amount of chances to get the image to look correct. I have to get the shot right or that image is gone forever. I cannot take the photo, check it and retake it. There is a beauty in that. I love the physical permanence of film. The negative is something I can touch. It exists in reality. As my classmates embraced digital photography, I felt more and more alienated.
After college, I entered the corporate world and did not take photographs for a very long time until a film photographer encouraged me to begin taking analog photos again. I also taught myself how to process color film.
Life beats the hell out of people and almost destroys them. The hope is that an individual emerges from all of that damage to become more resilient, beautiful and unique in a way they would not have been if they had never been harmed.
I attempt to photographically recreate this idea by warping my film much like life warps humans. I damage my film almost beyond recognition by playing trickster goddess, creating chaotic whorls of colorful emulsion and cracked plastic with acid, alcohol and fire. The resulting images I pull out of the developer are a transfiguration to something more beautiful and definitely more unique than what I originally saw through the viewfinder.
2019©Tania Kaaz