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Tavares Strachan

(Bahamian, born 1979)

Tavares Strachan

Us, We, Them (detail), 2014–2015

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Biography

Timeline

1979: Born in Nassau, The Bahamas
1996: National Seal of the Bahamas, Stamp Design
1998: Governor’s Award, The Governor General of the Bahamas
1999: Associates of Fine Arts, Painting. College of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
2000: Roots Junkanoo Group, Member
: Queen Elizabeth Arts/Poetry Award
2002: Liberal Arts Studies. Brown University, Providence RI
2003: BFA, Glass. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
: Distinguished Student Award, RISD Glass
2006: MFA. Yale University, New Haven, CT
: Alice B. Kimball Fellowship
2007: Grand Arts Residency Fellowship
2008: Tiffany Foundation Grant

Exhibitions

2010: Other Than Beauty, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, NY (June 1–July 30) (solo)
: The Orthostatic Tolerance: It Might Not Be Such A Bad Idea If I Never Went Home, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (solo)
: The Orthostatic Tolerance: Launching into an Infinite Distance, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO (solo)
2009: You Can Do Whatever You Like (Orthostatic Tolerance project), Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
: Inaugural Exhibition, The Boiler (Pierogi), Brooklyn, NY
: Tavares Strachan, Pierogi, Leipzig, Germany (solo)
: A Hundred Years, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2008: Pierogi et al, Daniel Weinberg Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Inner and Outer Space, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA (solo)
2007: 20th Anniversary: In the Fullness of Time, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
: From the Fat of the Land: Alchemies, Ecologies, Attractions, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
: Block Party II: An Exhibition of Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
: (Un)Natural Selection, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY @ Connecticut Contemporary, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
: New York: State of Mind, The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Shaheen Merali. Traveled to the Queens Museum
: Where We Are Is Always Miles Away, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want, Aubrey Sayle Primary School, Nassau, Bahamas (solo)
: Tavares Strachan, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
: Tavares Strachan, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY (solo)
: Factitious, PIEROGI Brooklyn, New York and Leipzig
2006: Surveillances and Observations, PIEROGI Leipzig, Germany
: School Days, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2005: SAFN Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland. Curated by Joe Amrhein and Petur Arason
2004: Nothing Compared to This, CAC Museum, Cincinnati, OH
2003: One on One, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
: Mine, Lombard Fried Fine arts, New York, NY
: Caribbean Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo
: Perspectives, Woods Gerrry Gallery, Providence RI
2002: Meiosis, Sol Gallery, Providence RI
2001: Synergism, Pro Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
: Glass Triennial, Woods Gerrry Gallery, Providence, RI
: Shattered Fractions, College Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
: Synergism, Pro Gallery, Nassau Bahamas (solo)
2000: On The Edge of Time, Contemporary Art from the Carribbean, Washington DC
1999: Visual Dialogue, Group of works traveling through the Bahamas “Post Independent Art,” Central Bank Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
: Reactions, Central Bank Gallery, Nassau Bahamas (solo)
1998: Pro Gallery, Nassau Bahamas, Floyd's Fury (solo)
: Floyd’s Fury, Pro Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas

Public Collections

: Central Bank, Nassau Bahamas
: Governor General’s Office, New Providence Bahamas
: Inter American Development Bank, Washington, DC
: Museo de Arte Moderno, Santa Domingo
: Nassau International Airport (Public Sculpture)
: Sir Linden Pindling’s Unity House, Nassau, Bahamas

Literature

2010: Hodara, Susan. Celebrating Artists Who Keep the Action in Abstraction. The New York Times, May 9, p. WE12
: Sirmans, Franklin. Tavares Strachan: The Orthostatic Tolerance. Grand Arts, January
: Rosenberg, Karin. Venerable, Small and Lots on Paper (Including Napkins). The New York Times, March 5, p. C24
: Thorson, Alice. Kansas City, Tavares Strachan: Grand Arts. Art in America 98, no. 6 (June/July): 191
: Bui, Phong. In Conversation, The Brooklyn Rail. March, p. 26-29
: Smuda, Sean. In Heaven, Everything is Fine – Basel, ’09. MNArtists.org, December 17
: Smith, Roberta. Rewards and Clarity In a Show of Restraint. The New York Times, February 20, C25, C30
: Saltz, Jerry. Energy to Burn. New York Magazine 42, no. 10 (March 30): 60-61
: Russo, Peter. Tavares Strachan at The Boiler. ARTCAT, March 10
: Rosenberg, Karen. An Art Project of the Coolst Kind. ArtsBeat.blogs.nytimes.com, Culture News and Views, May 1
: McAvoy, Linda. Learn your parking bylaws – or pay up, Wheels.ca, November21, http://www.wheels.ca/newsFeatures/article/783087
: Kenter, Peter. NYC art show installation commemorates artist's first parking ticket. National Post, March 9
: Wolff, Rachel. Tavares Strachan: Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, ARTnews 108, no. 10: 120
: Kalm, James. Brooklyn Dispatches: Tough Time, Don’t Whine, Get With a “Project” The Brooklyn Rail, February, p.42-43
: Josephson, Marika. Tavares Strachan @ Brooklyn Museum. WhitehotMagazine.com
: Haber, John. North by Northwest, NewYorkArtCrit.com, March 27
2009: Douglas, Sarah. Dealers Find Silver Lining at Slow ADAA Art Show. Artinfo.com, February 20
: Laster, Paul. Champagne, Anyone: A Bubbly Evening at the Art Show, Flavorwire.com, February 20
: Yablonsky, Linda. Dessert Trail. Artforum.com, February 24
: Boiler @ Pierogi. Semperars.blogspot.com, March 16
2008: Müller, Dominikus. Rundgang in der Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig: Wie verabschiedet man sich von Neo Rauch?, artnet, May 6
2007: Helfand, Glen. Tavares Strachan, Luggage Store. Artforum XLV, No. 6 (February): 300
: Hromack, Sarah. Tavares Strachan, Art Papers (March/April): 71
: Golonu, Berin. At the Galleries: Tavares Strachan Flash Art XL, no. 253 (March/April): 73
: Kalm, James. Fair Market Values. The Brooklyn Rail, February, pp. 38-39
: The cloud chamber of Tavares Strachan. Chic City Rats, http://www.chiccityrats.typepad.com/chic_city_rats_en/2007/04/the_cloud_chamb.html
: Strachan, Tavares. The Chickcharney I Mission. Printed Project, issue 7 (June): 101-07
: Volk, Gregory. Tavares Strachan at Pierogi and Ronald Feldman. Art in America 95, no. 2 (February 2007): 140-41
: Weiner, Emily. Painting the town. TimeOut New York, no. 565 (July 27 – August 2): 74
: Smith, Roberta. More Than You Can See: Storm of Art Engulfs Miami. The New York Times, Saturday, December 9, p. B7, B11
: O’Leary, Mary E. Yale artist taking the city to California. New Haven Register, January 21
: Leaverton, Michael. Earth Moving. SF Weekly, November 15-21
: Kraft, Jessica. New York, Contemporary Magazine, no. 86: 18
: Huston, Johnny Ray. Where We Are Is Always Miles Away, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 15-21
: Deleveaux, Yolanda. The distance between what we have and what we want. The Tribune, Wednesday, August 16, p. 3C
: DiGusta, Linda. From Cradle to Cosmos. Resolve40, November
: Dembo, Wendy. Tavares Strachan: Where We Are Is Always Miles Away. Cool Hunting.com, November 14
: Baker, Kenneth. A whole lot of nothing worthy of contemplation. San Francisco Chronicle, December 2, p. E10
2006: Anand, Easha. Chunk of New Haven street goes west. Yale Daily News, January 31, pp. 1, 4
: Heller, Maxwell. Tavares Strachan: Hermetically Sealed. The Brooklyn Rail, December/January, p.57
: Zeitz, Lisa. Über den Wunsch, mehr als nur eine Sache zu sein: Die erstaunlichen Erfindungen des Tavares Strachan. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 2

Tavares Strachan

(Bahamian, born 1979)

Tavares Strachan

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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