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

March 2025 - Wall Hangings -Marin Theater, Mill Valley CA

October 2024  Tender Balance -  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


2025

Art/Act: Local 2025, David Brower Center,  Berkeley, CA

Power Trip, curated by John Colle Rogers and Gemma Szusterman, 120710 Gallery Berkeley, CA

2024

Reach for the Moon,  Tyrell Collins and Tara Daly - The June Steingart Gallery at Laney College, Oakland CA

Letter from the Network -Berkeley Art Center Annual Jurried Exhibition, BerkeleyCA

Pure Beauty - Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco CA

Metamorphosis - Mercury 20 Gallery juried exhibition, Oakland CA 

2023       

There is Magic Here - Marin Moca juried exhibition, Marin CA                                             Matthew Stoneman, Tara Daly, Eli the Man, Pengoo- PW Salon, San Francisco, 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 and 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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