Tala Worrell

Feb 1

Tala Worrell (b. 1991, New York, NY) received a bachelor of the arts from Brown University (Providence, RI) in 2014. In 2014-15, she was a Fellow at the ten-month-long Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace Program (Beirut, Lebanon) where she worked with resident professors Kader Attia, Walid Raad, and Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, among others; in 2015-16, she was the recipient of a nine-month-long Emerging Artists Fellowship at the Salama bint Hamdan Foundation (Abu Dhabi, UAE) established in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design; and an Artist-in-Residence at the Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation in 2020. Worrell worked as a researcher and painting assistant for painter and filmmaker Sarah Morris from 2014-19. Worrell returned to Providence, RI in 2020 and earned an M.F.A. in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 2022. Worrell’s works have been exhibited at Beirut Art Center (Lebanon), Warehouse 421 (Abu Dhabi, UAE), and Franklin Parrasch Gallery (New York, NY). Worrell lives and works in Rhode Island, and teaches at Brown University. Tala Worrell is represented by Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York.

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