Tara Downs

Tara Downs is a Canadian artist who jointly owns and operates the Downs & Ross gallery in New York City. She previously was a founder and director of the Tomorrow Gallery in Toronto and later relocated to New York City.

Career

In 2011, Downs founded the Tomorrow Gallery with Aleksander Hardashnakov and Hugh Scott-Douglas in a Toronto warehouse that had previously housed a paintball studio.

In 2014, Downs relocated the Tomorrow Gallery to New York City as the sole proprietor, and featured artists such as Bradley Kronz, Jason Matthew Lee, Mary Ann Aitken, Oto Gillen and Valerie Keane. The first show was titled "Eternal September," which Downs explained is a term created by Usenet members to refer to what happened after September 1993, when AOL ended the practice of only opening access to Usenet annually during the start of the academic year in September, "exploding the community’s population and inaugurating the current climate of endless, continuous expansion of the Internet." Casey Lesser of Artsy described the galleries as having "complementary programs," writing that both "are heavy on international artists, curate with an eye towards history, and aim to resurface under-represented artists." Artists shown by Downs & Ross include Brad Troemel, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Ben Schumacher, Vikky Aleksander, Andrea Crespo, and Yanyan Huang, Tom Waring, Egan Frantz, Catherine Mulligan, and Ragna Bley.

Downs & Ross has participated in a variety of art fairs, including Frieze New York Online (2021), Independent Art Fair (2020),

Education Downs graduated from Queens University with a Bachelor of Arts and completed her Master of Fine Arts at OCAD University in Sculpture and Installation.