Leah Tacha (b. 1984, Lawrence, KS) received her BFA in Painting from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 2007 and her MFA from SUNY Purchase College in 2009. Her first solo exhibition in NY was curated by Jon Lutz at Sardine in Brooklyn, NY in 2014 and she had another solo show curated by Lutz at 106 Green Gallery in 2016. In 2021 she had her first solo show with Morgan Lehman Gallery. She has shown at multiple art fairs including NADA, Art on Paper and Arrivals Art Fair. Other galleries exhibited at include SSD (Shrine & Sargent’s Daughters), Gold/Scopophilia*, Deanna Evans Projects, Daily Operation, Underdonk, RARE Gallery, New Baroque, and the Torrance Art Museum, among many others. In 2009, she co-founded and was lead curator for Homestead Gallery which held one night only art openings throughout Brooklyn in residential settings. In 2015 she was awarded the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop SIP Fellowship in New York City. In 2017 she was awarded a Windgate Fellowship from the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana. Works by Tacha have been discussed in Hyperallergic, Art Spiel, Maake Magazine among others. In 2024-25 she was selected to be a participating artist in The Canopy Program.
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