Self-Portrait © 2020
Tatan Gherre is a documentary artist who began producing a body of work in photography and video as a self-taught teenager. Fueled by his obsession with understand the rawness of sex and his own sexual awakening, he discovered self-representation expressed through the drama of the body and sexual encounters with others. Throughout his career, he has portrayed various types of bodies, many of which belong to sex workers and transgender individuals in their everyday environments. He seeks to capture desire in the pulse of flesh and the intimate objects that accompany it. Using these elements, he has created the first Latin American LGBTQIA+ archive of intimacy, documenting the sexuality of the new queer generation of the 21st century as a life diary.
Since 2016, selected works from his extensive archive have been included in esteemed private art
collections around the world. In 2018, his photographs became part of one of the largest Latin American contemporary art collections, Colección Ca.sa. Since 2025, the Schwules Museum in Berlin
has acquired numerous works from his 2017–2023 period, further establishing his presence in prestigious international art institutions.
Currently, he lives and works in Montreal, Canada
"For any questions about how to become a model or about prices for original paper prints"
please email : tatan@gag-ball.com
Self-Portrait © 2018
Solo Exhibitions
2016 HDA / Galería AFA, Santiago - Chile.
2017 Love Song / Yael Rosenblut At Scope, New York - EE.UU
2017 Video Installation II / Yael Rosenblut At Galería CIMA, Santiago - Chile.
2018 Flesh and Bone / Galería Drugstore, Santiago - Chile.
2020 Mirror Touch / THE CAN ART GALLERY, Napier - New Zealand.
Selected Group Exhibition
2015 Up & Coming / Feelmore Gallery, California - EE.UU.
2017 Diary of life / Yael Rosenblut At BAphoto - La Rural, Buenos Aires - Argentina
2017 ART for ART / Galería AFA, Santiago - Chile.
2018 LS / Video Installation II / Gallery Weekend, Santiago - Chile
2018 Mutaciones De Lo Erótico “festival internacional de las artes eróticas” / L.L Gallery ART, Medellin - Colombia.
2019 MESTIZX / Picture Room Gallery. New York - EE.UU
2019 Encuentro / Galería Montegrande, Santiago - Chile
2019 Les Cuerpes / MNQ Art Group, Santiago - Chile
2019 Developing a Photografic Practice, Balam / International Center of Photography, New York - EE.UU
2022 Fantasia / Balam - Shmorevaz Gallery, Paris -
France
2023 Novias / Balam & Valerie - Barrakesh Gallery, Buenos Aires - Argentina
2023 Nosotros, Los Otros / Colección Ca.Sa Gallery, Santiago - Chile
2024 Conmemorar y Celebrar / Isabel Croxatto Galería &
Fundación Mecenas, ARTSY, Santiago - Chile
2025 Frecuente Sincrónico / Galería CIMA, Santiago - Chile
2025 Punctum Berlin / The Fourth Wall Gallery, Berlin - Germany
2025 We Have Each Other / Sonntags C. Gallery, Berlin - Germany
2025 Conmemorar & Celebrar II / Isabel Croxatto & Fundación Mecenas - Centro Cultural GAM, Chile
Video Art & Performance
2016 HDA Archive Video / Magnetic Hi8 Tape.
2017 Love Song II Archives / Magnetic Hi8 Tape.
2018 Man with A Balloon - Fetish / Magnetic Hi8 Tape.
Public Talks, Panels & Juries
2017 Guided Talk / Sala K for "AMOR" Festival. Santiago - Chile
2017 Conservatory About Sexuality / Diago Portales University, UDP Law School. Santiago - Chile
2017 Jury AMOR Festival / Santiago - Chile.
2018 Talk about "GagBall" archive / University of Concepción, Faculty of Anthropology. Concepción - Chile
Publications
2011 Butt Magazine.
2011 Gorgeous Daily.
2012 Butt Magazine.
2013 Conjuntion Issue #4.
2013 The Piss Book.
2014 Le Gros Monsieur.
2015 Up & Coming #1.
2016 Facts, Issue 7.
2016 Atlas
2016 Mor.Bo
2016 NewsPaper Vol V. No 1
2020 Risk Magazine.
2020 Balam #6 Mestizx
2020 Libération Fr.
2021 Another Magazine
2021 Balam #7 Fantasía
2021 Marginal N2
2023. Balam N9 Masculinidades