Tania Balan-Gaubert | CANARSIE

Tania Balan-Gaubert’s project will draw from the traditional Haitian marketplace to create a collaborative, maker-driven creative space in Canarsie that blends a hands-on studio, commission-free gallery, and curated concept shop. Together with local makers, Balan-Gaubert will build a hybrid platform where art, commerce, and community intersect, fostering innovation and social engagement.

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Tania L. Balan-Gaubert is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary conceptual artist, curator, and writer whose work examines race, transnational identity, and history through mixed media, photography, installation, and video. 

Born on Council of the Three Fires and Miami lands (Illinois) to Haitian parents, Balan-Gaubert was raised between Chicago’s southside and the Flatlands neighborhood of Brooklyn on Lenapehoking land (New York). Guided by Haitian, African, and Indigenous-based cultural traditions, Balan-Gaubert creates works that are caught between several realms. She combines personal archive(s), history, lore, images, found and ready-made objects, and spirituality with craft materials to construct hybrid works. Balan-Gaubert earned her MFA in Fine Arts from California College of the Arts and her MA in African American Studies from Columbia University.