tamara suarez porras || [email protected] || 718.614.4726 || lives & works in Berkeley, CA ​ Education 2018 MA, Visual + Critical Studies, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2017 MFA, Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2008 BFA, Photography + Imaging and Journalism, New York University, New York, NY

Selected Exhibitions ( * denotes solo or two-person exhibition) ​ 2020 Ditch Projects, Eugene, OR * (forthcoming) ​ Studio Visit: The Art + Architecture Faculty Triennial, Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco, ​ San Francisco, CA Brian Merritt--Give Me Back My Things, San Francisco, CA ​ Roll Call, Study Hall Gallery at PrattMWP, Utica, NY ​ 2019 Slow Build, Borderline Collective, San Francisco, CA ​ New Works from DPI Faculty, Staff, and Alumni, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY ​ the lining of forgetting, CTRL+SHFT, Oakland, CA * ​ My Mother’s Maiden Name, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (curated by Tanya Gayer) ​ (re)arrangements, The Growlery, San Francisco, CA * ​ 2018 notes from love canal, Bret Llewyn Gallery at Alfred State College, Alfred, NY * ​ Bay Area Currents, Smith Anderson North, San Anselmo, CA (jurors: Stefan Kirkeby, Việt Lê, & Meg Shiffler) ​ field notes for useful light, Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA * ​ ​ eclipsis, Meyer Library at California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA * ​ It Literally Is What It Is, PS8 at Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA ​ Seeing Red, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA (juror: Ann Jastrab) ​ This Message Has No Content, Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA ​ eclipsis, or a question of whether to look for the sun in CCA Commencement Exhibition, San Francisco, CA ​ ​ ​ 2017 The NOT-APPLICAbLE Office (Project Space Takeover), Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco CA * ​ The Ungreased Chain, PS8 Gallery at Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco CA ​ Flat File Exhibition, Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA ​ F, Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA (jurors: Aimee Le Duc, Donna Napper, & Sarah Thibault) ​ After Party, 1340 Bryant, San Francisco, CA ​ go under false, CCA MFA Exhibition at fusedspace, San Francisco, CA ​ First Come, First Hang, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA ​ 2016 Echo After Echo, CTRL+SHFT Collective, San Francisco, CA ​ #simulacra, Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA (jurors: Julie Casemore & Allie Haeusslein) ​ 13x13x13, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA ​ Correspondencia/Correspondence, CTRL+SHFT Collective, San Francisco, CA ​ 2015 outside ourselves, ourselves outside, 1340 Bryant, San Francisco, CA ​ 2014 insatiate, En Foco Touring Gallery at Riverside Library, New York, NY * ​ Stories in the Social Landscape, NO AD, New York, NY ​ Stories in the Social Landscape, Rita K. Hillman Gallery, International Center of Photography, NYC ​ 2012 Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY ​ The Gowanus Art Fair, Gowanus Ballroom, Brooklyn, NY ​ 2011 I LIVE/I LOVE, Second Space, New York, NY ​ 2010 Smut II: Lowbrow Society for the Arts, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY ​

2008 Click!, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY ​ P+I, Calumet Gallery, New York, NY ​ Show Three, NYU Gulf + Western Gallery, New York, NY ​ 2007 Up Next, Deitch Projects, New York, NY ​

Publications as Artist 2019 “that which we cannot ever expect to see,” artist book published by Sming Sming Books. 2015 “in the way we talked together,” self-published artist book, printed with Conveyor Arts.

Publications as Author 2020 “notes on grain,” a chapter in Running, Falling, Flying, Floating, Crawling, edited by Mark Alice Durant, ​ ​ published by Saint Lucy Books (forthcoming) ​ “notes on (re)assemblage,” a chapter in Trinh T. Minh-ha is on our mind, published by Wattis Institute for ​ ​ Contemporary Arts (forthcoming) ​ 2019 “Daria Martin Tonight the World at The Contemporary Jewish Museum,” The Brooklyn Rail ​ ​ ​ "Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography,” Aesthetica Magazine ​ “Collision: Jennifer Brandon and Andréanne Michon, SF Camerawork,” Art Practical ​ ​ ​ “Odette England at Klompching Gallery,” The Brooklyn Rail ​ “This Land Is Not Neutral: Dionne Lee and Georgina Reskala,” Art Practical ​ “Slow Burn: Young Suh’s Wildfires,” Art Practical ​ ​ ​ “Review: Light, Paper, Process: Alternative Process and Experimental Photography,” Art Practical ​ 2018 “Fold, Staple, Embrace: The Body Alive in the Archive,” Art Practical ​ “Notes from MoAD: Interview with Emily Kuhlman and Soleil Summer,” Art Practical [podcast] ​ ​ ​ ​ “Memorial Ruin: On Once Upon Awakening,” catalogue essay for Lida Abdul in Deep-Time Construction at ​ ​ ​ ​ Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, co-published with contemptorary ​ “Review: The Matter of Photography in the Americas at Cantor Center for Visual Arts” Art Practical ​ ​ ​ “(re)Arranging Pictures and (re)Reading Histories: Leslie Hewitt’s Still Life,” CCA Sightlines Journal ​ ​

Bibliography 2019 McGarvey, Forrest. “tamara suarez porras' (re)arrangements at The Growlery.” White Hot Magazine of ​ ​ ​ Contemporary Art. June 2019 ​

Teaching Experience 2020 Adjunct Faculty, Art Appreciation, University of San Francisco, Spring 2020 2019 Lecturer, Dialogues in Contemporary Art, San Francisco Art Institute, Fall 2019 Adjunct Faculty, Art Appreciation, University of San Francisco, Fall 2019 Adjunct Faculty, Art Appreciation, University of San Francisco, Spring 2019 Lecturer, Tools 1: Black-and-White Photography, California College of the Arts, Spring 2019 2018 Lecturer, Tools 1: Black-and-White Photography, California College of the Arts, Fall 2018 2017 Teaching Assistant, Media History II: Living Painters, California College of the Arts, Fall 2017 Professor Christine Wang Instructor, Darkroom Photography, Fort Mason Young Artist Program, City College of San Francisco 2016 Teaching Assistant, Contemporary Art History & Theory (graduate), California College of the Arts, Fall 2016

Professors Karen Fiss, Jordan Kantor, Elizabeth Mangini, Ted Purves, Tina Takemoto 2016 Teaching Assistant, Media History I: History of Photography, California College of the Arts, Spring 2016 Professor Sue Ciriclio 2018-present Teaching Artist, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 2016 - 2019 Faculty, Digital Photography, New York State Summer School of the Arts at Alfred State and SUNY Oswego 2010 - 2015 Faculty, School at the International Center of Photography, New York, NY Courses: Imagemakers (advanced year-long course), Photography I in Black-and-White Darkroom, ​ ​ Photography II in Black-and-White Darkroom, Lighting for the Portrait, Picturing Civil Rights, Documenting Community, Focus on Technique, Master Darkroom Printing, Portfolio Development 2004 - 2009 Teaching Assistant, School at the International Center of Photography 2008 - 2011 Special Education Teacher (Gr. 3-5), PS 90 and Achievement First Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY 2008 - 2010 Arts Educator, YWCA, Brooklyn, NY

Awards, Grants, Fellowships, and Residencies 2019 Artist in Residence at The Growlery, San Francisco, CA c3:initiative Publishing Residency, Portland, OR 2018 Art Practical Publishing Residency, San Francisco, CA Photography Teaching Fellowship, California College of the Arts Embark Artist-in-Residence, Prelinger Library Curator’s Award, California College of the Arts 2017 CCA All-College Honors Award (Critical Non-Fiction Writing) Toby Devan Lewis Award (Finalist) CCA Travel Grant 2016 Graduate Photography Residency, Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO CCA Travel Grant 2015-2017 CCA Diversity Scholarship and CCA Merit Scholarship 2006-2008 NYU-Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship 2004-2008 Tisch University Honors Scholar; Richard & Mica Hadar Scholarship; StartingBloc Fellow

Conferences, Presentations, and Lectures 2020 “eclipsis, or a line of totality,” PLACE TALKS at Prelinger Library, San Francisco 2019 “The Voice of Multiplicity: A talk by Trinh T. Minh-ha,” presenter, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco Native Art Department International’s Bureau of Aesthetics, presentation at KADIST, San Francisco ​ ​ Reading Group, “Trinh T. Minh-ha is on our mind,” Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco Performance for One: Lee Godie’s Photobooth Pictures, Berkeley-Stanford Symposium at SFMOMA ​ Artist Lecture, Introduction to Darkroom Photography, San Francisco Art Institute Artist Lecture, Investigations 2, California College of the Arts Guest Artist, ICP Imagemakers, International Center of Photography Panelist, Undergraduate Junior Review, California College of the Arts Guest Critic, 3:1 MFA Critique, California College of the Arts 2018 Carolina Caycedo: BE DAMMED, in conversation with Carolina Caycedo at KADIST, San Francisco ​ “Veiled Meanings: Fashioning Jewish Dress at The Contemporary Jewish Museum” at FIDM, San Francisco ​

(re)Arranging Pictures and (re)Reading Histories: Leslie Hewitt, Presenter and Panelist, ​ VCS Thesis Symposium, California College of the Arts Artist Lecture, Survey of Western Art History II, University of San Francisco Guest Artist, ICP Imagemakers, International Center of Photography The Art of Rube Goldberg, for Contemporary Jewish Museum at Lafayette Public Library’s Art Talks ​ ​ 2017 A Present Absence: (post)Memory and (re)Constructed Archives in Pacifico Silano’s “Tear Sheets,” Presenter and Panelist, Identities VCS Symposium, California College of the Arts Guest Critic, 3:1 MFA Critique, California College of the Arts Artist Lecture, Tools 1: Photography I, California College of the Arts Guest Artist, ICP Imagemakers, International Center of Photography Artist Lecture, New York State Summer School of the Arts at Alfred State 2016 Guest Artist, ICP Imagemakers, International Center of Photography Artist Lecture, New York State Summer School of the Arts at SUNY Oswego Artist Lecture, Tools 1: Photography I, California College of the Arts Artist Lecture, Core Studio 2D: Text, Image, Content, California College of the Arts 2015 Guest Artist, ICP Imagemakers, International Center of Photography Panelist, Undergraduate Junior Review, California College of the Arts 2012 Visiting Artist, New York State Summer School of the Arts at SUNY Oswego Juror, NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ Alumni Creative Assistance and Tobias Grants

Performances and Screenings 2019 50+ ways…, WIPPPPP with Useless Initiatives at Beauty Supply Oakland, Oakland, CA ​ there was a great silence: chapter 1, at CTRL+SHFT Collective, Oakland, CA ​ 2018 there was a great silence: chapter 1, Videotheque at Alfred University, Alfred, NY ​ in six* parts, Other Cinema at Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA ​ 50+ ways…, at Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA ​ 2017 in six* parts, at Bret Llewellyn Gallery at Alfred State, Alfred NY ​ Seven of Swords, Reversed, at stARTup Art Fair with Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA ​ notes on looking, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA ​ 2016 notes on looking, CTRL+SHFT Collective, Oakland, CA ​ reason with unreason, Freddy’s Backroom, Brooklyn, NY ​ reason with unreason, at SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY ​

Curatorial and Programming 2019 ...to take root among the stars, group exhibition at The Galallery, San Francisco, CA ​ 2018 field notes: Pauline Gloss and Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabai, public performance program with ​ ​ ​ MEETING PLACE: Nkiruka Oparah and Dionne Lee, Land & Sea, Oakland ​ ​ ​ field notes, public performance program at Prelinger Library, San Francisco, CA ​ N/A, publication and programming series at Wattis Institute and Hubbell Street Galleries ​ 2016 Echo after Echo [co-curated film screening], at CTRL+SHFT Collective, Oakland, CA ​ 2014-15 Teen Academy Imagemakers Exhibition, The Rita K. Hillman Education Gallery, ​ International Center of Photography, New York, NY 2013 our city winter, Freddy’s Backroom, Brooklyn NY ​

2011 disambiguation, Freddy’s Backroom, Brooklyn NY ​

Professional Experience 2019 - present Senior Program Associate, Teacher Programs, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 2017 - present Museum Educator, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA 2016 - 2019 Adjunct Educator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 2018 Communications Manager and Audio Producer, Art Practical, San Francisco CA 2016 - 2018 Gallery Docent, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA