STATEMENT

​Tara Tamaribuchi investigates human life experience in an organic, unfolding art practice. She enters art-making from a Buddhist and diasporic perspective, with interests in impermanence and connecting the past and present to new futures. Working across mediums, from spatial installation and public art to sound, video, and social practice, she builds layered structures of visual and material senses from ancestral forms to everyday phenomena. Her recent projects have delved into impermanence in parenting, connecting Japanese American incarceration experience to incarceration in the US today, memorializing Gen-X rave and club culture, and questioning the norms of colonial collections of material culture. 

BIO

Tara Tamaribuchi (b. 1975, California) earned a BA in Journalism from George Washington University, BFA in Painting from Pacific Northwest College of Art, and MFA from Lesley Art+Design. She currently lives and works in Seattle, WA, and will be moving permanently to San Francisco in 2027. Her recent solo installation exhibitions have been at Jack Straw Cultural Center, University of Washington Jacob Lawrence Gallery and Method Gallery (Seattle), with group exhibitions at Tlaxcala3 (Mexico City Art Week), Carnation Contemporary (Portland, OR), Seattle Art Fair (Vestibule Gallery), Seattle University Hedreen Gallery, Eastover Contemporary Arts (Lenox, MA), and Galpão (São Paulo, Brazil). She is a member of SOIL Artist-Run Gallery and a founder of Friends of Inscape, a creative placekeeping organization to save Seattle’s largest art studio building and former immigration and detention center from redevelopment. In that effort, she curated the 2025 group exhibition, Eight Years: Finding Resistance and Belonging in the Historic Immigration Building, at ARTS at King Street Station.