Tanya Ling Indian-British, b. 1966
Tanya Ling (b. 1966, Calcutta, India) graduated from Central Saint Martins, London, in 1989.
Post graduation, she worked as a designer in the Parisian fashion industry before returning
to London in the early Nineties to set up a gallery, Bipasha Ghosh, with her husband William
Ling. Following an exhibition of her own drawings, presented in the studio of Gavin Turk in
1996 and a commission from British Vogue, she became known as one of the world’s leading
fashion illustrators. During the period she also designed and produced an eponymous
ready-to-wear collection. The exhibition Lines (2014) with Alex Eagle marked a departure
away from fashion.
Most recently, her work has been exhibited at Lyndsey Ingram (Incitatus, 2025) and
Studio Cromie in Grottaglie, Puglia (Cultura Scultura, 2024). Prior to this she showed with
Ronchini, London (Tennis Club de Paris, 2024) and Harper’s, New York (Col de Montagne,
2023), LA (VH Farm, 2020) and East Hampton (Let it come to me, 2021). Other solo shows of
note include Paul Stolper, London (Land Escape, 2018/19) and The Mayor Gallery, London
(Tanya Ling, 2018). In 2011 over 50 of Ling’s works were acquired by the Victoria and Albert
Museum Prints and Drawings Collection. In 2014 a collection of paintings and sculptures
were acquired by Damien Hirst for his collection from which works by Ling were included in
exhibitions Simulation/Skin (2017) and Reason Gives on Answers (2019) both at Newport Street
Gallery, London. Ling lives and works in London.