Tanja Dursun was born in Sarajevo where she finished High School of Applied Arts, department of advertising graphics. She graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Trebinje, department Graphics, in 2000 ans she finished her Master's in 2007 at Academy of Arts in banja Luka, department of Fine Arts, majoring in drawing, with the teme 'A drawing on the frontier of abstract and recognizable'.

In additional to the successful creative work in the fields of drawing, painting and graphics, she is also a graphic designer.

She worked as a senior assistant at the Music Academy of the University of Eastern Sarajevo for the subject Art history from 2002-2013. At the moment she is employed as a professor of art and art history in High School 'Eastern Ilidza'.

Tanja Dursun's many works are in public and private collection both in the country and abroad ( Italy, France, USA...) she is a memeber of the Association of Artists of Eastern Herzegovina (ULUIH ) ' Milorad Corovic'.