Hirschl & Adler Modern is delighted to announce its representation of contemporary artist Tula Telfair (b. 1961). After 25 successful years with Forum Gallery, Telfair joins Hirschl & Adler at an auspicious time in her career. Her first solo exhibition with the gallery is planned for October 2026.
Telfair is widely admired as among the most distinctive landscape painters in America. Often monumental in scale, Telfair’s work depicts the land more as it is felt than seen. Her epic vistas, somehow both familiar and unfamiliar, are informed by extensive travel to the remotest places on Earth. In that sense, there is an accuracy to the geological formations and natural phenomena she captures. But the scenes are not entirely as witnessed. Rather the elements are recombined and reimagined to convey the experience of being human before the sheer vastness of nature.
Tula Telfair is a professor of Art in the Department of Art and Art History and a professor of Environmental Studies in the Bailey College of the Environment at Wesleyan University. She has taught at Wesleyan since 1989 and served as academic dean of the Arts and Humanities and chair of the Department of Art and Art History. She received her BFA in 1984 from Moore College of Art and Design and earned her MFA in 1986 from Syracuse University. Telfair has work in public collections around the world and has shown extensively in over 54 solo exhibitions in galleries, museums, and art fairs in the United States, Bangladesh, Portugal, Canada, Sri Lanka, France, and Germany. In 2016, Abrams published a monograph on her work, Tula Telfair: Invented Landscapes.
