Tanja Engelberts was born in 1987 in Deventer, The Netherlands. In 2021, she completed a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. She has worked on several projects related to the fossil fuel industry and has examined how energy production shapes our contemporary landscape. Other residencies include: The Banff Center for Arts and Creativity (CA), The Ucross Foundation (USA), IK Foundation (NL) and .r. Residence (FI). Works are included in the collections of De Nederlandsche Bank (NL), De Brauw (NL) and Clifford Chance (UK). Her work
has been published and exhibited in the Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom, Estonia, France and Japan. She lives and works in The Hague.