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