Tara McPherson (born April 7, 1976, in San Francisco, California) is an American artist based in New York. McPherson creates paintings, murals, poster art, and designer toys, within the New Contemporary Art movement.
Tara McPherson studied art at Santa Monica Community College and earned her BFA from Art Center in Pasadena, CA in August 2001 with an Illustration major and a Fine Art minor. McPherson's artwork has been featured in The New York Times, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Playboy, Elle, Marie Claire, Juxtapoz, Hi-Fructose, and the Los Angeles Times. In 2007, she won an Esky Award from Esquire for Best Concert Poster.
In 2006, McPherson's works were exhibited in a solo show at BLK/MARKT in Los Angeles, followed in 2008 by Lost Constellations, her first solo show at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York. In 2015, Dorothy Circus Gallery hosted McPherson's first solo exhibition in Rome. In 2010 Bunny in the Moon opened at Jonathan Levine Gallery followed by Wandering Luminations in 2013.

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