Tania Dibbs is a contemporary abstract painter based in Basalt, Colorado, collected by clients in Aspen and throughout the United States. Working from her studio and gallery in the Roaring Fork Valley near Aspen, she creates large-scale paintings and sculptural works that explore the intersection of the natural world, humanity, and culture.
Tania’s paintings often incorporate screens, overlays, and layered surfaces that both reveal and obscure the landscape beneath. In series such as Anthropocene, these visual interventions reflect the tension between the beauty of nature and the complex, often contradictory systems humans construct around it.
Dibbs’s work spans a wide range of styles, unified by a commitment to experimentation and material exploration. Her sculptural pieces juxtapose symbols of wealth and culture with their opposites, examining our rapidly changing relationship with the planet and the systems that shape contemporary life.
Tania’s work is held in private collections in the United States, Europe, and Australia, including those of Perry Farrell and Etty Lau Farrell, Jackie Bezos and Mike Bezos, Portia de Rossi, and John Hickenlooper and others. Her pieces have also been placed in leading hotels, including Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, The Ritz-Carlton, and Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center.
Visitors are welcome to view available work in person at her studio and gallery in Basalt, Colorado, just minutes from Aspen and the surrounding Roaring Fork Valley, or to inquire directly at [email protected].
CURRICULUM VITAE
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
“Momentum”, Gaia Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM, June 2-30, 2023
Solo booth project for EtherArts Project, Art Palm Springs, Feb 12 – 17 2020
“Second Nature”, Gallery 81435 , Telluride, CO March 3 – May 20 , 2016
“We Were Here”, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles, CA January 14, 2016 – February 13, 2016
“Anthropocene”, TD Gallery, Aspen, CO Dec 19, 2014 – March 31, 2015
Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO, January 24 – March 8th, 2014
“Nature | Human Nature”, Carmen Wiedenhoeft Gallery, Denver, CO, October 4 – November 16, 2013
“New Directions”, Forre & Co. Fine Art, Aspen, CO Dec 2012
Tania Dibbs Big Sky Studio Gallery, Aspen, Winter of 2008, 2009, 2010
Janne Fine Art, Carefree, AZ, December, 2007
Peninsula Gallery, Lewes, DE, July 2006
Keating Fine Art, Basalt, CO, August 2004
Keating Fine Art, Basalt, CO, August 2003
Peninsula Gallery, Lewes, DE, July 2003
Elliott Yeary Gallery, Aspen, CO, March, 2003
Elliott Yeary Gallery, Aspen, CO, July, 2002
Peninsula Gallery, Lewes, DE, August 2002
Big Sky Gallery, Basalt, CO, February 2001
“Far Horizons”, Peninsula Gallery, Lewes, DE, July 1998
“State of Evolution”, Jill Vickers Gallery, Aspen, CO, August 1996
Barney Wyckoff Gallery, Aspen, CO, February 1996
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
“Interplay: Art + Opera,” The Art Base, Basalt, CO, April 18-May 19, 2023
“Winter Abstractions,” Gaia Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, March 3-31, 2023
“Important Female Abstractionists,” Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA, March 3 – May 2, 2022
“The Solace of Open Spaces,” Tania Dibbs & Dick Carter, Hexton Gallery, Aspen, CO, Sept. 18 – Nov 12, 2021
“Tales of Water,” Skye Gallery, Aspen, CO, Mar 13 – April 20, 2020
“Pink Highlights,” Skye Gallery, Aspen, CO, Sept 28 – Nov 18, 2018
“Fragile Latitudes,” Step Gallery, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, ASU, Phoenix, AZ, Sept. 13 – 29, 2018
“Malibu Art Wave,” Malibu, CA Oct. 2016
“Inhabitants: Creatuers of Imagined World,” Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN, January 13 – February 5, 2016
Scope Art Fair, Art Basel Miami, Miami Beach, FL, December 1 – 6 2015
“The Fletcher Exhibit: Socially and Politcally Engaged Art,” Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN, Oct 5 – Dec 7, 2015
“Blue Nude,” Dere Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, May 28 – June 27, 2015
“Constructed Histories,” David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO Feb 13 – March 21, 2015
“Intersections”, RedLine Art, Denver, CO, May 1-16, 2014
Landfill Art Project, December 2013
Denver Museum of Contemporary Art’s Luminocity Gala featured participant, October 2013
Roaring Fork Open, Aspen Art Museum, October 4-27, 2013
Colorado Women’s Caucus for Art Mixed Media show, Core Gallery, Denver, CO, September 12-29, 2013
Crooked Tree Art Center D’Art for Art exhibit, Petosky, MI, July 2013
Cableland Art Project, Official Residence of the Mayor, Denver, CO June – November 2013
“After Dark ”- Greg Moon Art Gallery, Taos, NM, July 2013
Denver Designer Showhouse, Denver, CO, June 2013
“Light” – Next Dor, St Louis, MO, December 2012
“Vision to Voice” Swan Invitational, R2 Gallery, Carbondale CO, October – December 2012
Architectural Digest Show, New York, NY, March 2012
Swan Gallery Exhibit, R2 Gallery, Carbondale, CO 2011
“Scope Miami 2010,” as part of ArtBasel, Miami, FL December 2010
RARE Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY, August 2010
“Tania Dibbs & Anne Goldberg,” S.A.W. Studio for Arts and Works, Carbondale, CO, October 2008
“The Woods,”DFN Gallery, New York, NY, January 2006
Colorado Governor’s Invitational, Loveland, CO, April 2004
“Skies and Scapes,” DFN Gallery, New York, NY, February 2004
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
“Spotlight: Tania Dibbs, Ed Bradley Story” by Tania Dibbs, Arts Management Magazine, 2022
“Artist Tania Dibbs Shares her Aspen Story” by Tania Dibbs, Modern Luxury Aspen, July 13, 2022
“Artist Finds Room to Grow” by Ali Margo, Aspen Sojourner, June 14, 2022
“Life and Work with Tania Dibbs,” Voyage Denver Magazine, June 17, 2019
The Lift morning show, artist interview, July 26, 2019
“Feminine Nature,” by Michael Cleverly, Modern Luxury Aspen, July 9, 2018
“Arctic Dreamscape,” by Susan Benner, Modern Luxury Aspen, Feb. 2017
Tania Dibbs’ “We Were Here” Exhibition at the De Re Gallery: Review by Ira Israel, Huffington Post, 1/21/2016
“Tania Dibbs’ Timeless Sculptures Of Barnacle Infested Waste,” MutualArt.com, January 15, 2016
“Nature Fights Back in Tania Dibbs’ Tentacle-covered Sculptures,” Hi Fructose Magazine, January 6, 2016
“Tania Dibbs” Expose Art Magazine, February 2015
“Tania Dibbs -Aspen Art Star,” Snow Magazine, winter 2015/2016
“Dissonant Nature,”Peak Magazine, summer 2015
“Beautiful Disaster,” Aspen Sojourner, Spring 2015
“High-Profile Art Galleries Come to Aspen”, Wall Street Journal, March 2015
“Skiing’s art culture is alive and thriving across the globe”, Ski Canada, January 2015
Rocky Mountain PBS, Arts District Story, aired January 9, 2015
The Aspen Times, December 19, 2014
“The Local’s Show”, Aspen, CO, December 2014, December 2008, October 2008, August 2006 Studio Visit Magazine, Vol. 13, 2011, Vol 23, 2013
Moray Mair, Tania Dibbs Paintings Explore the Underlying Matrix of Life Mutantspace Art and Design blog, October 1, 2013
International Contemporary Artist, Volumes 1-3, 2009-2011
Aspen Insider Autumn Advice, SkyWest Magainze, Sept/Oct 2010
Art for All Seasons, Denver Magazine – The Art Issue, August 2010
“Art Matters” Grassroots Aspen TV interview with Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, director of the Aspen Art Museum, January 2009
Benedetti, Christine. In Her Own Light Aspen Daily News, February 13, 2009
Oksenhorn, Stewart. Dibbs On The New Space The Aspen Times, January 4, 2009
Everwave TV Aspen artist interview, December 2008, September 2008, April 2008, March 2007
Plum TV artist spotlight, televised throughout year of 2006/2007
Resort Sport Networks artist interview, televised throughout the winter of 2002-2003
Aspen Week television interview, Channel 16, winter 1998
“Living Treasures of Colorado” featured guest, Art On TV, televised throughout the summer of 1997
EDUCATION:
University of Virginia Bachelor of Arts degrees, Fine Art and Biology, 1988
SACI Art Institute, Florence, Italy, 1984-1985
Art Student’s League, New York, New York, 1992
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO, 1993
HONORS:
Arctic Circle Residency, Oct. 2016
Vermont Studio Center grant, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2016
Aspen Foundation grant, Anderson Ranch arts Center, Snowmass, CO, 1993 Artist Fellowship for Colorado Artists, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO, July 1999 Visual Artist Fellowship award, Colorado Council on the Arts, 1997
Art in Public Places selection, Colorado Council on the Arts, 1999
PUBLIC SERVICE:
Community Mentor, Artist Mentor, Basalt High School, Basalt, CO, 2023
Teacher, Painting the Colorado Landscape class, The Art Base, Basalt, CO, January 2019, Fall 2019
Facilitator, “Artwork Feedback Nights with Tania Dibbs,” The Art Base, Basalt, CO ongoing
Volunteer sculpture workshop leader, The Art Base, Basalt, CO, Sept 23, 2018
Juror, The Blue Show, CORE New Art Space, Denver, CO, May 2017
Art exhibition and fundraiser, Golshim L’Chaim-Ski to Live, Aspen Jewish Community Center, December 17, 2015 – January 16, 2016
Panelist, “The Business of Art in Aspen,” Aspen Business Luncheon, March 11, 2015
Host of Shing Stars Foundation kids with cancer art sale fundraiser, August 26, 2015
Host of Junior Diabetes Foundation of the Rockies art sale fundraiser, March 5, 2015
Speaker at Aspen Startup Weekend for entrepreneurial leadership, October 2013
U.S. Forest Service and Aspen Highlands “Gateway to the Bells” poster design, 2001
For more information about Tania, contact [email protected].