Carl Tandatnick was born in 1956 in New York City. He currently lives in Florida where he works as both an artist and a physician. His artwork focuses on AIDS and mortality-based issues and has been exhibited in numerous national and international museum exhibitions about AIDS, including "Don’t Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS" at the Na-tional Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia; and a large-scale group show entitled "Pandemic," which traveled to the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA; United Nations Visitors Gallery, New York, NY; Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa; and Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain. On December 1, 1994 and 1995, Tandatnick’s "Day Without Art/When is Day Without AIDS?" video installation of a massive AIDS virus was shown on the jumbotron towering over Times Square 72 times for 15 second intervals during the day from 7:06 AM until 1:00 AM the following day. His works are held in many prestigious permanent collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia; and the St. Louis University Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, MO.
