TANIA 

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Tania Jaramillo is a writer and essayist based in Paris. Their work has been featured in Hobart Pulp by Short Flight/Long Drive Books, Ethics Magazine, DreckLit and most recently in Everyone is a Girl: Hagiography,  

They have new work forthcoming in EIAG and Parcel. 

CONTACT
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Education
Reed College
B.A Comparative Literature 
Thesis: “Islanded Modernities” 

Sorbonne 
Visiting student 

Employment Belladonna Press, NYC 
Events assistant

The Jewish Museum 
Research Intern 

Periphery Mag
Assistant Editor 

Critical Resistance
Translator and Events Assistant
Exhibitions
“It is about truth”
Idiot Machinez, NYC, 2025 

“The Apocalypse / the New World”
JM Summer Institute, 2021 

“[after]lives annual cinema conference at NYU, 2020

“Youth” Ori Gallery, 2019 

AwardsResidency 11:11 (2024) 

Terrarium Publishing Incubator Fellow (2023)
Performances + Workshops  
Conor Hultman Presents... (recording)  

Engel Im Haus, December 2025 (recording)  

“The Ins and Outs of Confessional Writing” Theater Research Flatbush
          








Last Updated 24.10.31






PUBLISHED WRITING

CRITICISM 

“Now I Know How Joan of Arc Felt” in EIAG: Hagiography, 2026.  



POETRY 

“Jackson” in Hobart Pulp, SF/LD Books, 2025.

“There is no time: Jump!” in Ethics Magazine, 2025. 



PROSE 

“Is it Wicked Not to Care?” in Parcel, Spring 2025.  
“Fastened” in Parcel, Spring 2026 (forthcoming.) 



SELECTED WORK






1. Fast Fish and Loose Fish
Installation. 
 “It is about truth” Idiot Machinez, NYC. 
Photographs and words from personal collection of Tania Jaramillo, title from “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville. 




   

2. Etch a ModernCity

Created in residence at IPRC, Oregon.


Artist Statment: 

Etch a ModernCity (2019) is a work that very much emerged in the making. It began as an exploration of black-out poetry applied to letterpress printing. The source of the text can be found in a 1950 National Geographic Magazine introducing the American reader to the island of Puerto Rico. The original, in line with American media of its time, presents its attractions as a site of tourism and pleasure on what would have marked a little over a half century since its forced acquisition as a territory of the United States.  As a Puerto Rican, I deliberately chose this text as an experiment of submerging myself and my creative tools into a cloaked colonial discourse to see what, island-like, might emerge. 


Preserved in their original order and capitalization, individually isolated words and letters come together to form the phrase “Etch a ModernCity / the paved voyage / heaVy discovery / submerged”.  The book is composed of a series of re-printings of this phrase, a different form of etching which floats on the page alongside experiments in other forms of impressing ink onto paper in forms resembling ocean depths and island archipelagos seeming to come together or breakaway into distinct landmasses, giving way to new meanings between the repetition and in the act of repetition itself. Finally,the printed text and the printed/smudged/overlayed impressions are illustrated by photographs from CUNY historical records of Puerto Rican diasporic life and personal ephemera of the artist, applying further pressure to distinctions between universal and particular historical record. 


 As an ensemble, the text stages the encounter of the island, the heavy discovery, in motion as a “repeating island”. This work enters into conversation with conversations on Caribbeanist history, particularly the works of Edouard Glissant, and asks the viewer to consider the subtleties of the printed word and bound text, of universality in text and particularity in smudge, impression, weight, physicality, intimacy, of revelation, of witness and revelation and, ultimately, of history at the scale of touch.





3. The Apocalypse / The New World                    Video piece.
Designed for Jewish Museum NYC Summer Institute 






4. Paradise (2019)
   Video piece. 
Screened at Ori Gallery.