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.