Tania Marmolejo (born September 5, 1975) is a Dominican born, Dominican Swedish American painter. Influenced by her Scandinavian and Caribbean heritage, she studies Graphic Design and Illustration in Norway, and returns to the Dominican Republic to study Fine Arts at the Altos de Chavón School of Design[1], an affiliate of Parsons School of Design in New York City. In 1998 she receives the Bluhdorn Scholarship, and continues her studies at Parsons The New School for Design in New York, graduating from Fine Arts and Illustration in 2000. She begins her artistic career as an illustrator for the fashion and lifestyle sections of Obsidiana magazine (New York). During these years she also designs characters and backgrounds for MTV, PBS, Hyperion/Disney, and Scholastic Books among others, as part of Data Motion Arts studios animation team, receiving various ASIFA and CINE awards. In 2005 she joins the group of artist at MadArts Studios in Brooklyn, NY, and District and Co. Gallery in Santo Domingo, where she participates in several group exhibitions, focus entirely in the development of her artistic career along with the design. Since then her work has been exhibited in numerous collective national and international exhibitions, several Iberoamerican Art Salons in Washington DC, representing Dominican Republic; as well as in international art fairs such as Context Art Miami during Art Basel, and Pinta NY, represented by Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery. She currently resides in New York, where she has been designing textiles for the L’Amour by Nanette Lepore line for JC Penney, and Nicole Miller Intimates, among others, as well as an artistic tile collection for Aguayo Tiles in The Dominican Republic. In 2014 she was selected to represent the Dominican Republic with her textile designs at the Fourth Ibero-American Design Biennial (bid14), in Madrid, Spain (2014).
- ^ Kaplan, Steven. "Tania Marmolejo: A Chavón graduate who defines success". Casa de Campo Magazine. SILGON Publication. Retrieved 28 August 2016.