Tanya Synar is a sculptor and installation artist who works in cast metal, video, audio and a range of materials. Her interests involve exploring perception and crossing into science for inspiration and assistance. She has collaborated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and has won numerous grants and awards including an Illinois arts council grant, puffin foundation grant and several Texas Woman's University research and development grants and awards.

Currently in progress, her project Mapping Galaxies in Iron, involves 3D printing from Hubble Space Telescope data to create otherworldly, imagined spaces. “Through stories, we chart and map regions that are inaccessible to us. Because Galaxies and solar nebulae exist outside of our daily reach, we imagine.”