Tatiana Bareis is from Hampstead Maryland.  Born in New York City, she moved to the small town northwest of Baltimore when she was 5.

Tatiana attended University of Delaware for her undergraduate degree in art conservation.  U of D is the only university that offers such a degree.  She continued her education by pursuing a masters degree in art conservation from the University of Delaware, in association with Winterthur Museum.  She specializes in paintings, with a particular interest in modern and contemporary works and the new types of materials that artists have been using in the past 100 years.
 

Tatiana has worked at the Hirshhorn Museum, the modern and contemporary art museum of the Smithsonian Institute, since 2002.   She has spoken at many international conferences, involving travel to Europe and across the United States, and has earned the respect of several important people within the world of art conservation. She is the assistant collections manager in the museum.

Tatiana was featured in a recent Washington Post article "How Degrading! Contemporary Art & the Ravages of Age" focusing on the challenges of conserving modern art.  Also, if you want to know a bit more about art conservation, check out the interactive web page from a recent NOVA television show, Lost Treasures of Tibet, which features conservators restoring ancient Buddhist murals.