Tara Youngborg, seated in front of a computer screen displaying a digital audio workstation.

Tara Youngborg

Tara Youngborg is a Maryland-based artist, educator, curator, and arts administrator. She has a B.A. in Art and Art History from St Mary’s College of Maryland and will receive an MFA in Studio Art from Towson University in May 2025. Her work uses digital technologies to create video and audio compositions that are combined into immersive installations that explore place, memory, and technology. She is also the manager of the Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she directs the exhibition programming and has advised the Contemporary Art Purchase Program since 2018. She has shown her work in solo exhibitions at the George Washington Carver Center for the Arts and the University of Mary Washington Media Wall, and in group exhibitions from coast to coast in the United States, internationally in Australia, and always on the web at tarayoungborg.com.

New Media Gallery 2025-26: not a town but a landing page, an installation about a ghost town that questions the role of data, archives, and recreation in understanding place, loss and memory