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Tara K Daly  - Curriculum Vitae

Born in Laguna Beach, CA  1971

press/publications

https://www.artistsinrise.com/post/8-tricks-every-artist-should-know

https://sfai.org/alumni/tara-daly/

Sanchez Art Center Left Coast Juried Exhibition Artist Talk 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1t42j5OQQE&t=9s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp-4667PNqI (minutes 34 - 37)

https://counterpulse.org/holly-wong-tara-daly-2/

https://www.andersonranch.org/blog/meet-artist-in-residence-tara-daly/

Clay Culture: Innovative Human - Ceramic Arts Network

solo exhibitions

October 2024  Art Works Downtown, San Raphael CA

April 2024     2023 LCA Awards Exhibition - Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA

July 2021          Fragile Failing Found - Applied Contemporary, Oakland CA

March 2020   Tara Daly - Art in Neighborhoods, Counterpulse, San Francisco CA

Sept 2016        OtherMajik - ATA's Right Window, San Francisco CA

Sept 2005      Viscera Cera- 21 Grand, Oakland CA

selected exhibitions

2024

Pure Beauty- Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco CA.         Metamorphosis - Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland CA      

2023       

There is Magic Here - Marin Moca juried exhibition, Marin CA                               Matthew Stoneman, Tara Daly, Eli The Man- PW Salon, San Francsisco, CA   Resilience, adapting to challenging events - Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA       Left Coast Annual Jurried Exhibition -  Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA       Emerging - Nails in the Wall, Metuchen, NJ

 2022         

Tides of Change - Drawing Room, San Francisco, CA

2021        

Component Parts - Racine Art Museum,  WI                                                                   Sculpture of the Pacific Rim - Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, CA                   Call and Response - Museum of Craft & Design (online), San Francisco, CA         Beauty or Truth - Art Works Downtown,  San Raphael CA

2020      

Crisis Mode - Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, (online) CA                 Small Works - Art Works Downtown,  San Raphael CA.                                                 6x6x6 Small Works - Applied Contemporary, Oakland, CA                                   Sculpture of the Pacific Rim - Commonwealth Club of San Francisco(online),CA 

2019  

Daddy Don’t Go - Adeline’s Lab, Berkeley CA                                                               Reflectivity, Artists on Climate Change - Healdsburg Center for the Arts, CA     What  We Leave Behind - Dairy Barn Arts Center,  OH                                             Unfolding Epoch - Minnesota Landscape Arboretum,  Minneapolis MN                       Art Now: Painting - Ann Arbor Art Center MI

2018

Lemurian Jumpstart  - Connect Art Project Space, San Francisco CA                      Works on Paper - LBIF Foundation,  New Jersey NJ                                                          Visual Voices - NCECA Annual,  Contemporary Craft, Pittsburg PA

2017

The Witnesses - NIAD, Richmond CA                                                                                           Go Figure - Berkeley Potters’ Studio, Berkeley  CA                                                                To Be Honest - Harvey Meadows Gallery, Aspen CO

2015

Outpost - Connect Art Int’l Outpost, San Francisco CA

2006

Graphic Premonitions - Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA

Oakland Sampling - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA

2004

Black & White: Responses to the Binary -Femina Potens, San Francisco CA

2003

Approaching Abstraction: The Power of Suggestion (Twelve new acquisitions of the Di Rosa permanent collection) - DiRosa Preserve, Napa CA

 2002 

Tough Guys: Tara Daly, Christian Maycheck, John C. Rogers - Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco CA

education

2022

  • "Historical American Art, Whiteness, and the Idea of the American Nation" - The Darkwater Project

2021

  • Living Into the Design Pathway with Joe Brewer 
  • An Ecological Civilization: Vision and Practice with Jeremy Lent
  • Space Camp: The Decade Ahead - Buckminster Fuller Institute

2020

  • Joe Brewer’s Earth Regenerators Community Regenerators Training Program
  • The Wilds Beyond Climate Justice - Emergence Network , Bayo Akomolafe

2019

  • Capra Course - Systems View of Life - Global Online course by Fritjof Capra

2018

  • Oregon State University -Permaculture Design  Certificate
  • Richmond Arts Center -3 semesters of metal arts

2016

  • Apprentice to Master Potter Francis Blevin, Berkeley CA 
  • Berkeley Potters’ Studio - Soda Fire Workshop

2013

  • Berkeley Potters' Studio - Studio tech internship

1996

  • San Francisco Art Institute - Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Sculpture

1992

  • Santa Monica College of Design, Art and Architecture -  Associate of Arts, Visual Arts 

1987-90  

  • Long Beach Museum of Art, Video Annex, Summer Workshop in Video Production (scholarship two years, internship the third)

1986

  • Otis Parson’s School of Design Summer for High School Students Figure Drawing Scholarship





collections of :

City of San Francisco Arts Commission,2023

Stanford Health Care, 2023

Charles A. Wustum Museum of fine Arts, Racine Wisconsin, 1994

Di Rosa Preserve, Napa California, 2002


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