©Tanja Geis, 2015
VITA
2015 University of California Berkeley, USA. M.F.A. in Art Practice
2013 Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK. M.A. in Art, Space and Nature
2010 University Centre of the Westfjords. Ísafjörður, Iceland. M.R.M. in Coastal and Marine Management
2002 Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. B.A. in Fine Arts
EXHIBITIONS
2015
Front Yard/Backstreet, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Present Tense 2015, Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
MFA Graduate Show, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA
One In Which We Are, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
What Grows Here, Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
MFA Now 2015, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, USA
2014
Everybody’s Ocean, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Annual Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
2014 Bridging the Arts Exhibition, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA, USA
2014 First Year MFA Exhibition, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA, USA
2013
Gigha/2013 Megijima, Setouchi International Art Triennale, Megijima, Japan
Inside Out/Outside In, Yamaguchi Institute for Contemporary Arts, Yamaguchi, Japan
In Skin, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Inside Out/Outside In, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Whyld, Patriot Hall Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Impress 8, An Lanntair, Stornoway, UK
Active InTent, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2012
Sounding Drawing, Woodend Barn, Banchory, UK
Site Exploratory Arts Skagaströnd (S.E.A.S.), NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
ASSiST, Hudogestvena Galeria, Gabrovo, Bulgaria
2010
Dionysia, Gallerie Dynjandi, Bildudalur, Iceland
Flash Forward 2008, Toronto, Canada
2008
DIY TLC: An Exhibition of New Art, New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY, USA
AWARDS
2015
Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellowship
Eisner Prize for Art Practice, University of California Berkeley
2014
Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award, The San Francisco Foundation
The University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) Graduate Grant
Shinnyo-en Peacebuilding Leadership Fellowship, University of California Berkeley Public Service Center
2012
Edinburgh College of Art Scholarship, University of Edinburgh