About
Tamarind Rossetti works with daily painting and writing to explore place, home, process and presence. Through this time-based reflective practice, anchored in objects of her current circumstance, connections link like rivers in a landscape of regular life. Her work also takes the forms of farming (future agriculture), cooking farm-to-table meals (with vegetables from the farm), public projects, and partnerships.
Currently Co-Artistic Director of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, and a professor of art at the École supérieure d'art et de design TALM-Angers, she has an undergraduate degree in Art Practice and English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, summa cum laude. She received an MFA in Public Practice, from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles. Her work has been shown at FRAC Poitou-Charentes, site d’Angoulême, France; Centre des Livres d'Artistes, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France; ForYourArt, Los Angeles, CA; the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA; MorYork Gallery, Highland Park, CA; PT Gallery, Japan and others. Her work is in the public collection FRAC Poitou-Charentes, France. She lives and works in France and Germany.
EDUCATION
Otis College of Art and Design
MFA Public Practice 2013
University of California, Berkeley
BA Art Practice and English Literature, summa cum laude 1998
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
A Guest House for Travelers, Little House Gallery and Project Space, Venice, CA 2015 Be·longing MorYork Gallery, Highland Park, CA 2010
New Paintings Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA 2010
Orbital Revolutions Worth-Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA 1999
Bikini Explosion Worth-Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA 1996
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Sous serre - coefficients d’agriculture dans les livres d’artistes, Centre des Livres d'Artistes, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France 2020 Sommaire, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, site d’Angoulême, France 2017 (En)Gendered (In)Equity Gallery Tally Project, LACE LA, CA 2016 Gallery Tally Project, Santiago, Chile 2015 ITSWOLF, Tourist Kiosk, Perform Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA 2015 1 Minute x 1 Image Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2015 Nothing Heavy Pomona Packing Plant, Pomona, CA 2013
A Mess and A Pleasure: Practicing in Public ForYourArt, Los Angeles, CA 2013
Nostra Fortuna Otis at 18th St. Art Center, Santa Monica, CA 2012
Portable Park IV and Consuming Nature Pacific Standard Time Performance Festival, 2012
Otis Public Practice with Bonnie Sherk, Santa Monica, CA
(pre) Otis at 18th St. Art Center, Santa Monica, CA 2011
Tarfest Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA 2011
Summer Show Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA 2011
It Is What It Is What It Is Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA 2009
East Meets West Tibet Atelier, Ghent, Belgium 2007
Himalayan Vision VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2007
PoweringUp/PoweringDown Neurosciences Institute UCSD, CA 2004
Contemporary Images Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ 2001
Nature of Things Open Ground, Brooklyn, NY 2000 Women Work, PT Gallery, Hamamatsu, Japan 1998 Honors Show, Worth-Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA. 1998
Women Beyond/Borders Moving Train, St. Petersburg, Russia and International 1996
The Soft Show Worth-Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA 1995
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT PROJECTS
IDEA-Z Activation: Adam Rompel. Paris, FR 2018 IDEA-Z Activation: Fabrice Gallis. Paris, FR 2018 Song Waves, 3307 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 2017 Market Lab at Katz's Deli, with Amanda Katz, LA, CA 2016 Guided Meditation, Artists Breathe, Little House Gallery, Venice, CA 2015 Connect the Dots, Pacoima City Hall, Pacoima, CA 2015 Ethyl Percy Andrus Living Legacy, The Gables Retirement Community, Ojai, CA 2014
Language as Material, Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA 2014
Memory and Loss, The Gardens Assisted Living, Santa Monica, CA 2013
Be·longing MorYork Gallery, Highland Park, CA 2010
It Is What It Is What It Is Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA 2009
A Child’s Imagination and a Border Remixed, San Ysidro, CA and Tijuana, MX 2004
SITE-GENERATED Ferme au Sauvage - Gulf Islands, Mayne Island, BC, Canada 2020 Ferme au Sauvage, Ségur-le-Château, France 2018-2021 The Beginning of Water: Connect the Dots, LA Great Streets, Van Nuys, CA 2016 Ojai Raptor Center, Ojai, CA 2015 Setting Sun, HD Video Installation, Santa Monica Mall, Santa Monica, CA 2012
Padmasambhava and Lakshmi Murals, Ratna Ling, Cazadero, CA 2009
Sri Pa Ho Protection Mandala Mural, Ratna Ling, Cazadero, CA 2008
Amitabha, Meditation Center, Ojai, CA 2006
RESIDENCIES
@markchurchillceramics Padre Juan, Ojai, CA. 10.22.19-12.10.19 2019 3307 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 4.1.17-5.31.17 2017
Ojai Raptor Center, Ojai, CA, July 2014-July 2015 2014
LECTURES AND PANELS
Memory/Loss, Open Engagement, Portland, OR 2013
Memory and Loss, Video Discussion, The Gardens Assisted Living, Santa Monica, CA 2013
What did we learn from dOCUMENTA (13)? Panel Discussion, Otis at 18th St. Arts Center, 2012
with John Tain, Leslie Labowitz-Starus, Ciara Ennis, Santa Monica, CA
Heart Walk Project, Open Engagement, Portland, OR 2012
Organic Creative, Whole Foods Headquarters, Austin, TX 2011
Mysterion/Myein, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA 2010
Orbital Revolution, Haas Retreat Lecture, Berkeley, CA 1999
AWARDS
Great Streets Challenge Grant, Connect the Dots Team - City of Los Angeles, CA 2015
Los Angeles County Arts Commission Civic Artists Pre-Qualified List, LA, CA 2014-2016
Quickgrant, Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles, CA 2013
Franklin Grant, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA 2012
Graduate Scholarship, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA 2012
Quickgrant, Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles, CA 2011
Graduate Scholarship, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA 2011
Creative Capacity Fund, San Francisco, CA 2010
Dvortcsak Art Scholarship, Ojai, CA 2006
Robert & Colleen Haas Award, Berkeley, CA 1998
Eisner Award for Film and Video, Berkeley, CA 1998
Phi Beta Kappa, Berkeley, CA 1998
Undergraduate Art Scholarship, Berkeley, CA 1996
Ojai Artist's Scholarship, Ojai, CA 1995
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