TIA FACTOR/ABOUT/CV/SELECTED WORKS
b. 1971, Guerneville, CA
Living in Portland, OR
EDUCATION
MFA, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2001
BFA, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA, 1997
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
* indicates solo show
| 2012 | True Places, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA ArtPad SF with Swarm Gallery, Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco, CA |
| 2011 | In Want of the World, Half/Dozen Gallery, Portland, OR* Magic>Nature, FalseFront, Portland, OR Faculty Show, Portland Community College, Cascade Campus, Portland, OR Shadowshop, as part of “The More Things Change,” SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA Things Are Expanding, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA Shadowshop, as part of “The More Things Change”, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
| 2010 | New American Landscape, Las Manos Gallery, Chicago, IL San Francisco Fine Art Fair, Swarm Gallery, San Francisco, CA Places We Call Home, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA* School / Work, 2010 Faculty Show, Portland Community College, Cascade Campus, Portland, OR |
| 2009 | Talking In Place, Sister Rosaire Gallery, St. Mary’s College, South Bend, IN* December 5x5x5x5x5, Beppu Wiarda Gallery, Portland, OR Northwest Emerging Artists, Seattle City Light Portable Works: Part 1, Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 2008 | Black Milk, Milk Contemporary, Hellerup, Denmark The Sum of Its Parts, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA Optic Illusion: Southern Exposure’s Annual Art Auction, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Intersection’s 2008 Art Fundraiser, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
| 2007 | The Subjective Landscape, Gallery 6a, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia* Red Dot, Miami Beach, with Swarm Gallery SOEX Marks the Spot, Southern Exposure’s Annual Art Auction, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Alumni at the Centennial, Oliver Art Center, Tecoah Bruce Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA Intersection’s 2007 Art Fundraiser, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Seventh Annual Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA |
| 2006 | Spaceball Ricochet, Keys That Fit Gallery, Oakland, CA* Oakland: East Side Story, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Works On Paper, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY State of the Nation, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Sixth Annual Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA |
| 2005 | The Reflected Nature Series, Atelier Gallery, Berkeley, CA* SVMA Biennial 2005, Jurors, Larry Rinder, Janet Bishop, Chris Brown, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA Paper! Awsome!, Pigman Gallery, San Francisco, CA Picturing Berlin, Galerie sphn Artist Studio, Berlin, Germany |
| 2004 | Periphery 2, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art + Craft, Portland, OR Trabajos del Corazon, The Lab, San Francisco, CA A La Carte, Pond, San Francisco, CA Advance to Go, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA |
| 2003 | Garage Sale, Build Gallery, San Francisco Landing, 13th Annual Juried Exhibition, Juror, Manray Hsu, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Flat Constellations 2, Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA Boutique, Black Bird Space, San Francisco, CA Periphery, Worth-Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA |
| 2002 | The Moment Nothing Became Everything, Little Worth-Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA* Western States Small Works 2002, Juror, Ralph Rugoff, Museum of Contemporary Art at the Burbank Center, Santa Rosa, CA |
| 2001 | Six Poem Paintings, Swallow, Brooklyn, NY* Mastermind, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA MFA Survey Exhibition 2001, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA Five Star, MFA exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA DrawingInResidence: Phase 1, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA CloseUpClose, Juror, Rupert Jenkins, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA |
| 2000 | The Space Between Up and Down, collaboration with Lisa Perez, Institution, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA MFA Annual 2000, On-line Exhibition, New American Paintings |
| 1999 | Blind Date, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK Windows On Art, Project of the City of Fremont, collaboration with Renee Gertler, Fremont, CA |
| 1998 | New Paintings, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
| 2007 | Artist In Residence, International Natural + Cultural Residency Program, Arts Tasmania, Port Arthur Historic Site, Tasmania, Australia |
| 2005 | Juror’s Choice, SVMA Biennial 2005, Jurors: Larry Rinder, Janet Bishop, Chris Brown |
| 2004 | Artist In Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT |
| 2001 | Artist In Residence, Kala Bhavana, Kerala, India J. Ruth Kelsey Traveling Merit Award, Department of Art Practice, U.C.Berkeley |
| 2000 | Eisner Fine Art Award, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1997 | High Distinction, California College of the Arts, Painting Department |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Independent Art Feature, Bear Delux, #33 Winter - Spring 2012: The Identity Issue
“Happy Meat Drawing Anthology #2,” Published by 6a, an Artist Run Initiative, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 2011.
New American Landscape, edited by David Paul Downs, Published by Sprocketbox Entertainment,May 2010 .
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“In Vicinity” Willamette Week Online, January 2010.
“Sampling What?.” Stretcher Jan. 2007.
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“Tia Factor at Keys That Fit Gallery.” Shotgun Review May 2006.
Westbrooke, Lindsey. “What the World Needs Now (the Love Show).” Artweek, April 2004.
New American Paintings: M.F.A Annual, Juror, Lisa Phillips, Open Studios Press, Boston, 2001.
Westbrook, Lindsey. “Mighty Fine Art.” East Bay Express July 2001.
Look, The Quarterly Magazine of the UC Berkeley Art Museum, Spring 2001.
