About Tania
About Tania
I’m a New York–based artist and multidisciplinary designer working across painting, branding, and creative technology.
I’m a New York–based artist and multidisciplinary designer working across painting, branding, and creative technology.
I’m a New York–based artist and multidisciplinary designer working across painting, branding, and creative technology.
Biography
Biography
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Tania Madhalam (b. 2003) is a New York–based artist working primarily in oil painting and printmaking.
Tania Madhalam (b. 2003) is a New York–based artist working primarily in oil painting and printmaking.
Her work engages layered visual languages that sit between clarity and ambiguity. Rather than resolving into fixed narratives, her images hold tension within the surface itself, where meaning emerges gradually through material buildup, repetition, and subtle shifts in tone and form.
Her work engages layered visual languages that sit between clarity and ambiguity. Rather than resolving into fixed narratives, her images hold tension within the surface itself, where meaning emerges gradually through material buildup, repetition, and subtle shifts in tone and form.
She was born in Manhattan and spent her early childhood in India before returning to the United States, where she was raised in Jersey City, New Jersey, and later moved back to Manhattan. This transnational upbringing informs her sensitivity to displacement, memory, and cultural in-betweenness, shaping how she understands identity as fluid rather than fixed. These experiences inform her visual thinking in indirect ways, often appearing as an underlying emotional structure rather than explicit subject matter.
She was born in Manhattan and spent her early childhood in India before returning to the United States, where she was raised in Jersey City, New Jersey, and later moved back to Manhattan. This transnational upbringing informs her sensitivity to displacement, memory, and cultural in-betweenness, shaping how she understands identity as fluid rather than fixed. These experiences inform her visual thinking in indirect ways, often appearing as an underlying emotional structure rather than explicit subject matter.
Madhalam graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City in Spring 2026, earning a BFA in Fine Arts with minors in Creative Technology, Mathematics, and Art History. Alongside her studio practice, she is interested in the intersection of art, graphic design, creative technology, and emerging technologies. She envisions a multidisciplinary career as an art director, bringing together visual storytelling, branding, motion, digital experiences, and emerging technologies to create thoughtful, immersive work across physical and digital spaces.
Madhalam graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City in Spring 2026, earning a BFA in Fine Arts with minors in Creative Technology, Mathematics, and Art History. Alongside her studio practice, she is interested in the intersection of art, graphic design, creative technology, and emerging technologies. She envisions a multidisciplinary career as an art director, bringing together visual storytelling, branding, motion, digital experiences, and emerging technologies to create thoughtful, immersive work across physical and digital spaces.
Artist statement
Artist statement
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My work explores memory, identity, and femininity, shaped by my early years in India and growing up between Jersey City and New York.
My work explores memory, identity, and femininity, shaped by my early years in India and growing up between Jersey City and New York.
I’m interested in how personal histories shift over time—how memories blur, overlap, and take on new meanings. Rather than presenting fixed narratives, I create layered visual experiences that invite viewers to move between recognition and ambiguity.
I’m interested in how personal histories shift over time—how memories blur, overlap, and take on new meanings. Rather than presenting fixed narratives, I create layered visual experiences that invite viewers to move between recognition and ambiguity.
Drawn to the space between consciousness and the subconscious, I use washes of paint, translucent layers, and subtle shifts in form to evoke the way thoughts and memories surface and dissolve. Feminine themes emerge through quiet contrasts and imagery that suggests transformation, resilience, and emotional complexity.
Drawn to the space between consciousness and the subconscious, I use washes of paint, translucent layers, and subtle shifts in form to evoke the way thoughts and memories surface and dissolve. Feminine themes emerge through quiet contrasts and imagery that suggests transformation, resilience, and emotional complexity.
The places that have shaped me—the warmth of India, the structure of Jersey City, and the energy of New York—appear as fragmented, abstracted impressions, like memories resisting disappearance. Across both my artistic and design practice, I’m interested in how visual language can communicate emotion, construct narrative, and create immersive experiences.
The places that have shaped me—the warmth of India, the structure of Jersey City, and the energy of New York—appear as fragmented, abstracted impressions, like memories resisting disappearance. Across both my artistic and design practice, I’m interested in how visual language can communicate emotion, construct narrative, and create immersive experiences.
Ultimately, I hope my work creates spaces where past and present coexist, where nostalgia becomes not only a reflection on what was, but a way of imagining what endures and how identity continues to evolve.
Ultimately, I hope my work creates spaces where past and present coexist, where nostalgia becomes not only a reflection on what was, but a way of imagining what endures and how identity continues to evolve.
Get in touch
Get in touch
Available for selected commissions, collaborations, and design opportunities.
Available for selected commissions, collaborations, and design opportunities.
madalam.tania@gmail.com
madalam.tania@gmail.com
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