Tara Tamaribuchi | CV
Born 1975 | Newport Beach, CA
Lives and Works | Seattle, WA
Education
2021 MFA Visual Art | Lesley University | Cambridge, MA
2005 BFA Painting | Pacific Northwest College of Art | Portland, OR
1997 BA Journalism | George Washington University | Washington, DC
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Camouflage Net Project (with dance choreographed by Gabrielle Nomura-Gainor and music by Paul Kikuchi) | Method Gallery | Seattle
2021 Camouflage Net Project | A Gallery | Seattle
2020 Craft Abstracts I Pratt Fine Art Center storefront | Pioneer Square | Seattle
2019-2020 Camouflage Net Project (storefront installation with video) | Pantages Theater | funded by Densho and ArtsFund | presented by Spaceworks | Tacoma, WA
2019 Camouflage Net Project (with sound) | Densho Dinner | Bellevue, WA
2019 Ephemeral Panorama | CORE Gallery | Seattle
2018 Ma | Yaw Theater | collaboration with choreographer Noelle Chun and dancers | interactive stage installation for evening-length dance performances | Seattle
2018 Craft Abstracts + Ancestral Landscapes | CORE Gallery | Seattle
2017-2018 Camouflage Net Project | Seattle Sculpture Walk | site-specifically c outdoor art installation presented by Seattle Office of Arts and Culture
2017 Craft Abstracts | Seattle Storefronts | storefront window installation presented by Shunpike | South Lake Union | Seattle
2017 Seattle Mayor’s Art Gallery | City Hall
2016 Golden Screen | Seattle Center Poetry Garden | outdoor installation presented by Seattle Office of Arts and Culture
Group Exhibitions
2025 Meander // Serpentina | Tlaxcala3 | Mexico City
2024 Incarnation | Carnation Contemporary | Portland, OR
2024 Bumbershoot Contemporary | curated by Ellen Ito and Ben Beres | Seattle
2024 Glow in the Dark | University of Washington Jacob Lawrence Gallery | Seattle
2024 Textual, Textile | Vestibule Gallery | Seattle Art Fair
2024 Rags | Gallery RAG | Gloucester, MA
2024 Site / Non-Site | Shift Gallery | Seattle
2023 Hand Paper Shovel Loom | Soil Gallery | Seattle
2023 Juicy Tokul | Punch Projects | Thorp, WA
2023 InnerGaze | Eastover Contemporary Art Space | Lenox, MA
2022 Both Sides Now: Tara Tamaribuchi, Samantha Wall, Rodrigo Valenzuela | Hedreen Gallery | Seattle University
2022 Do Write [Right] to Me | Galpão | Vila Madelena, São Paulo, Brazil
2021 An Unpredictable Time + Place | Lesley Art+Design MFA Show | Mass MoCA
2021 Kinship | Arts Mid-Hudson | Poughkeepsie, NY
2021 Floating World | Google Cambridge | Cambridge, MA
2020 Homecoming | Awakening the Buddha museum intervention | Seattle Asian Art Museum
2019 Duets | Space Gallery | Seattle
2019 Edwin T. Pratt: A Living History | Northwest African American Museum | Seattle
2019 Karey Kessler and Tara Tamaribuchi | UW Tower Mezzanine | University of Washington
2016 High Blood | Tacoma Spaceworks Gallery | Tacoma, WA
2016 Cultural Perspectives | Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery | Seattle
2013 Children’s Healing Art Project | Portland, OR
Teaching | Curating | Community
2025 Paper Presenter | Burning Refuge Conference | Harvard Divinity School
2021 Teaching Artist-in-Residence | Architectural History | Montgomery College | Rockville, MD
2021 Resident Critic | Lesley Art and Design MFA in Visual Arts | Cambridge, MA
2020 Lecturer | Buddhist Art Practice | Woman in Buddhism Conference, presented by Seattle Buddhist Temple and Center for Buddhist Education | Berkeley, CA
2020 Teaching Artist | Shifting Into Public Art | Lesley Art and Design MFA in Visual Arts | Cambridge, MA
2025 Curator | Eight Years of Resistance and Belonging at the Historic Immigration Building | ARTS at King Street Station, Seattle
2024 Co-Curator | Soil InCarnation | Carnation Contemporary | Portland, OR
2025 Co-Curator | Meander // Serpentina | Tlaxcala3 | Mexico City
2023 Curator | Navigating and Rooting: Aaliyah Gupta, Juliet Shen, and UW Ethnic Studies | Inscape Arts | Seattle
2020 Curator | Reimagining the Future Through the Past | Web Exhibition | Washington State Arts Commission
2024- Sadako Statue Restoration Committee | Seattle
2023 Community Partner and Researcher | THE UN-[TITLED] PROJECT | curated by Berette Macaulay | presented by On The Boards and Studio BRIC | Seattle
2021- Friends of Inscape Leader | saving Inscape Arts studio building from redevelopment
2017-2023 Inscape Artist in Residence Committee member | Seattle
2025 Juror | California Street Culvert Public Art Project | City of Seattle
2025 Juror | Jack Straw New Media Residency | Seattle
2024 Juror | Artist Trust Arts Innovator Award | Washington State
2024 Juror | Seattle Asian American Film Festival | Feature-length Narrative
2017 Juror | Seattle Center Poetry Garden | Seattle Office of Art and Culture
Bibliography
2022 Tara Tamaribuchi | Public Display Art | Dec 2022-Feb 2023 | Vol 2, Issue 1 | pg 36
2022 Seattle artists laying groundwork toward community purchase of former INS building, now home to 100-plus studios | The Seattle Times | Gorenflo, Grace | Mar 15
2021 For Sale: Seattle’s Historic INS Building | The Seattle Channel | Albright, David | Aug 31
2021 Arts Mid-Hudson virtual exhibit celebrates 'Kinship,' 'artistic connection' | Poughkeepsie Journal | Marston-Reid, Linda | March 25
2021 What's at Stake with the Potential Sale of Inscape Arts | The Stranger | Keimig, Jasmyne | March 12
2020 Seattle Betsuin Brings the Dharma to the Buddha at Seattle Art Museum | Wheel of Dharma | San Francisco | Tamaribuchi, Tara | Vol. 42, Issue 3, March
2019 A Seattle Civil Rights Icon and the Art He Inspired | Keimig, Jasmyne | The Stranger’s Seattle Art and Performance Quarterly | Seattle, WA | June 5
2019 Camouflage Net Project on Display in Washington | The Pacific Citizen | Los Angeles | May 31
2019 The Panoramic Floatmounts of Tara Tamaribuchi | Schneider, Katlin | Artmill blog | Chicago | Feb 6
2018 Tara Tamaribuchi | Original Lines Podcast | Allen, Laura Walton | Jan 27
2017 Camouflage Net Project Brings Light to Injustice | Bisbee, Aya | The International Examiner | Seattle | Nov 8
2016 High Blood Spills Racial Frustration at Spaceworks | Ponnekanti, Rosemary | The News Tribune | Tacoma | Nov 24
2016 New Poetry and Art at Seattle Center | Lindsay, Erika | Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Art Beat Blog | Jan 27
Awards, Residencies, Grants
2024 New Media Resident | Jack Straw Cultural Center | Seattle
2022 Build Art Space Equitably | Cultural Space Agency Public Development Authority
2019-21 Dean’s Scholarship | Lesley Art and Design | Cambridge, MA
2019 Densho Artist Residency and Grant | Densho and ArtsFund |Seattle, WA
2017 Edwin T. Pratt Memorial Scholarship | Pratt Fine Art Center | Seattle, WA
2017 Public Art Bootcamp | Seattle Office of Arts and Culture | Seattle, WA
2016 Portable Works Purchase Award | Seattle Public Utilities | Seattle, WA
2016 Artist Trust Visual Edge Program | Port Townsend, WA
Collections
Google | Cambridge, MA
Seattle Public Utilities | Seattle, WA
City of Seattle | Seattle, WA
Arash Ferdowsi
Membership + Rosters
Member Artist | Soil Gallery | Seattle, WA
Washington State Arts Commission Public Artist Roster
Sound Transit STArt Public Artist Roster
City of Seattle Public Artist Roster
City of Seattle Ethnic Artist Roster
Member | Asian American Women's Artist Association