Talia Steinman (b. 1992) is an anti-zionist, Jewish mixed-media artist and arts administrator working in New York City. Driven by an ethos of play as a form of inquiry, her works span analog and digital collage and photography, Riso printing, painting, sculpture, video, bookmaking, and more. She uses a playful process of call-and-response to decontextualize and layer imagery and material, sourced from overlooked details of everyday life, her own gestural mark-making, or pieces of previous projects. Rendering an amorphous sense of space, she calls attention to minutiae while simultaneously suggesting expansiveness beyond what the viewer can immediately register. The resulting works feature fragmentation along with whimsical, fluid and biomorphic forms; lush ethereality with heightened texture and patterns; and rich color palettes.
Talia embraces ambiguity and the poetics of questioning, which she traces back to her Jewish heritage. Putting forward a diasporic understanding of Jewish identity, she opposes Zionism and its heinous misrepresentation of Judaism. She is an MFA candidate in SVA Art Practice’s class of 2026.