Tamar Ettun + Lara Mimosa Montes

Join us for a public conversation between artist Tamar Ettun and writer Lara Mimosa Montes. The two met in Minneapolis on the occasion of Tamar Ettun’s debut exhibition at Dreamsong SUMMON (2023). They will discuss the artist’s practice, evolution since then and her new exhibition REVOLVING.

Tamar Ettun has performed and exhibited widely, including at the Walker Art Center, The Chinati Foundation, The Watermill Center, Marjorie Barrick Musuem of Art, Sculpture Center, Madison Square Park, and The Jewish Museum. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from The Pollock Krasner Foundation, Interlude Artist Foundation, MacDowell Fellowship, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Art Production Fund, among others. Her work is featured in current exhibitions A Star House Without a Sun at the Museet for Samtidskunst in Denmark (through June 7, 2026) and IVF Documents will be included in What’s in a a Story? (opening May 9, 2026) curated by Barbara London and presented by CYFEST in Venice, Italy.

Lara Mimosa Montes is the author of The Time of the Novel, which Publisher’s Weekly describes as a “luminous” and “brilliant debut.” She is also the author of two previous books of poetry. Her writing has appeared in Amant, Fence, POETRY, The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, and elsewhere. She was recently named a winner of the 2026 Whiting Award in Fictionand has been awarded artist residencies and fellowships from Lighthouse Works, MacDowell, Marble House Project, Jentel, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the McKnight Foundation. Montes holds a PhD in English from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She regularly collaborates with other artists to develop public programs and image-text projects. She is a faculty member of the Creative Writing MFA program at Pacific Northwest College of Art. She also teaches in XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement Master’s program at NYU.