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Warith Taha

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𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳 𝗖𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗮𝗵𝗮 (@warithtaha)

Meet Warith Taha, one of the inaugural artists in Art + Water’s 2027 Cohort. An Oakland-based interdisciplinary artist, Warith’s practice is rooted in painting while extending into writing, photography, sculpture, and research. Through processes of staining, cutting, layering, and reassembling, his work explores abstraction, Black queer subjectivity, memory, and material transformation, allowing paintings to evolve through time, experimentation, and lived experience.

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙮 𝘼𝙧𝙚𝙖?

“My family is from the Fillmore in San Francisco, and my relationship to the Bay is central to both my identity and my work. The people, history, and physical landscape continually shape the stories I want to tell. Because I work with found objects, the Bay Area also materially influences my practice. The city itself becomes part of the work. While it’s increasingly difficult to sustain an artistic career here, and many talented artists leave for places like Los Angeles or New York, I want to believe it’s possible to build a meaningful practice in the city that raised me. Staying here feels like an act of commitment to my community, to my family, and to the belief that artists can build sustainable careers in the places that shape them.”

𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙩 + 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮?

“I hope to come into the Art + Water community with an open heart, ready to be vulnerable, to share generously, and to learn from others. What excites me most is the opportunity to build meaningful relationships with fellow artists and faculty. I’ve come to understand that community and mentorship are essential to sustaining an artistic career, and I see Art + Water as a place where those connections can grow naturally. I’m excited to share my work with a broader audience while contributing to a community built around curiosity, generosity, and mutual support.”

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2. Warith Taha, My Father is a Gemini, 2024. Acrylic on canvas with found object support and collage. 29 × 25 in. taken in Pier 29 by @warithtaha

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Reorganizing by @warithtaha

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Disposable Camera / 2025 SF by @warithtaha

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I made these a couple of days ago.
Reflecting on state-sanctioned violence, punctuation, Black naming traditions, martyrdom and the limits of abstraction and language in physical space. by @warithtaha

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Lidded Memory Jar (2025)
12 x 12 x 15 in
Acrylic paint on ceramic vessel with found objects and music box by @warithtaha

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Sharing a few pieces from a ceramic residency I’m finishing up.
Clay is a beautiful material and has a way of revealing time.
It taught me how things shift, settle, and blur between phases.

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Corner Frame with Silver Shoes #2 (2025)
15 x 15 x 1 in
Ceramic frame with cropped photo of artist’s mother

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From This to That (2025)
29 x 40 x 2 in
Acrylic on paper with collage and reclaimed bottle spout and ceramic frame with pennies

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Holding You Like a Handle (2025)
10 x 11 x 3 in
Ceramic with reclaimed mug handles, mortar, collected metal objects, and mirror shard taken in San Francisco, California by @warithtaha

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For the past six months, I’ve been the WARP Artist-in-Residence at ClayroomSF, a program that supports Bay Area Black artists in realizing a ceramic project. This Friday, September 26, join me at ClayroomSF Potrero (1431 17th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107) from 7–9pm for my culminating pop-up exhibition.

The work draws inspiration from the Black ceramic funerary tradition of Memory Jugs, exploring clay as a vessel of remembrance that holds touch, objects, memories, and stories. By integrating clay into my broader material practice, the exhibition reflects on legacy, my late mother, the personal archive, and the shifting landscape of San Francisco. taken in Clayroom SF by @warithtaha

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Spoke with a physicist today about equilibrium, balance and Feynman Diagrams. Then I started glazing something I was really happy with but broke it over the sink. by @warithtaha

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