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Tanja Hollander (American, born 1972) is an artist who works with photography, video, social media, and data to understand cultural and visual relationships. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and received a B.A. in photography, film, and feminist studies from Hampshire College in 1994. With earlier projects rooted in landscape photography, her more recent work explores ideas about portraiture and representation through conceptual and community-based frameworks. Her body of work, Are You Really My Friend?, debuted in its entirety as an exhibition, short documentary, and book for a year at MASS MoCA in 2017. In her most recent series, The Ephemera Project, she is collecting images and stories that build an archive of the people we love and the objects that hold us together. Hollander has had more than twenty solo exhibitions and has been included in nearly forty group exhibitions in museums, galleries, and public spaces since 1996. Her works is held in the collections of the Bates College Museum of Art (Lewiston, ME); Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH); Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, ME); deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (Lincoln, MA); Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO); Museum of Fine Art (Boston, MA); Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME); and the University of Maine Museum of Art (Bangor, ME), among many other corporate and private collections. In her spare time she is a reproductive justice advocate. She lives and works in Auburn, Maine.