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

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Solo Exhibitions

2023 Camouflage Net Project (with dance choreographed by Gabrielle Nomura-Gainor and music by Paul Kikuchi) | Method Gallery | Seattle, WA

2021 Camouflage Net Project | A Gallery | Seattle, WA
2020 Craft Abstracts I Pratt Fine Art Center storefront | Pioneer Square | Seattle, WA

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 installation) | presented by Densho | Meyendebauer Center | Bellevue, WA

2019 Ephemeral Panorama | CORE Gallery | Seattle, WA

2018 Ma | Yaw Theater | collaboration with choreographer Noelle Chun and dancers | interactive stage installation for two evening-length dance performances | Seattle, WA

2018 Craft Abstracts + Ancestral Landscapes | CORE Gallery | Seattle, WA

2017-2018 Camouflage Net Project | Seattle Sculpture Walk | site-specific 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

2016-2017 Golden Screen | Seattle Center Poetry Garden | outdoor installation presented by Seattle Office of Arts and Culture

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Group Exhibitions

2024  Bumbershoot Contemporary | curated by Ellen Ito and Ben Beres | Seattle, WA

2024  Textual, Textile | Vestibule Gallery | Seattle Art Fair

2024  Glow in the Dark | University of Washington Jacob Lawrence Gallery | Seattle WA

2023​​ Hand Paper Shovel Loom | New Members Shows | Soil Gallery | Seattle, WA

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 | North Adams, MA

2021 Kinship | Arts Mid-Hudson | Poughkeepsie, NY

2021 Floating World | Google Cambridge | Cambridge, MA

2020 Awakening the Buddha | teaching artist social practice museum intervention to reinvigorate Buddhist statues | Homecoming reception | Seattle Asian Art Museum | Seattle, WA

2019 Duets | Space Gallery | Seattle, WA

2019 Edwin T. Pratt: A Living History | Northwest African American Museum | Seattle, WA

2019 Karey Kessler and Tara Tamaribuchi | UW Tower Mezzanine | University of Washington | Seattle, WA

2016 High Blood  | Tacoma Spaceworks Gallery | Tacoma, WA

2016 Cultural Perspectives | Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery | Seattle, WA

2013 Children’s Healing Art Project | Portland, OR


Teaching | Curating | Community

​2024 Juror | Seattle Asian American Film Festival | Feature-length narrative

2023 Community Partner and Researcher | THE UN-[TITLED] PROJECT | presented by On The Boards and Studio BRIC | Seattle, WA

2023 Curator | 20th Anniversay Lesley MFA in Visual Arts Alumni Exhibition | Vanderhoot Gallery | Cambridge, MA

2021 Teaching Artist-in-Residence | Architectural History | Montgomery College | Rockville, MD
2021-present Friends of Inscape Leader | saving Inscape Arts studio building from redevelopment

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

2020 Curator | Reimagining the Future Through the Past | Web Exhibition | Washington State Arts Commission

2017-present Inscape Artist in Residence | Committee member and AiR liason | Seattle, WA

2017 Juror | Seattle Center Poetry Garden | Seattle Office of Art and Culture

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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

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Awards, Residencies, Grants

2024 New Media Resident | Jack Straw Cultural Center | Seattle, WA

2022 Build Art Space Equitably | Cultural Space Agency Public Development Authority

2022 International Lab for Art Practices | Uncool Artist | São Paulo, Brazil, Brooklyn, NY
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

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Collections

Google | Cambridge, MA
Seattle Public Utilities | Seattle, WA

City of Seattle | Seattle, WA

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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