Maki Tamura [email protected]

MFA in painting, Tyler School of Art, Temple University BFA in Painting, University of , Magna Cum Laude, , WA Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Sknowhegan, ME

Solo Exhibitions 2011 Healing and Experiments, Spokane Community College, Spokane, WA 2010 New Works, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA 2009 Constellations, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 2008 James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA 2006 The Enlightenment, Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Vignette, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA 2001 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX From a Distant Land, halle für kunst, Lüneburg, Germany Galleria Bonomo, Rome, Italy 2000 AC Project Room, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions 2011 Art and Politics Now, Seattle Central Community College, Seattle, WA A Clearing in the Clouds (with Saya Moriyasu and Nicholas Nyland) Act Theater, Seattle, WA 2010 Northwest Artists Editions, Open Satellite, Bellevue, WA Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010, , Bellingham, WA Secret Languages of Animals, , Tacoma, WA Champagne Truffles, Gift Shop Project, , Seattle, WA 2009 "+2", Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY 2007 The Story Goes, McKenzie Fine Art Fine, New York, NY 2006 Cooling Out - on the paradox of feminism, Museum Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland 2005 Histories, Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA Young Visionaries, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY 2003 NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL (featured artist of Lucas Schoormans Gallery) 2000 Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany (featured artist of AC Project Room) Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA AC Project Room, New York, NY Rosy, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA 1999 AC Project Room, New York, NY A Place Called Lovely, Greene/Naftali Gallery, New York, NY Story, AC Project Room, New York, NY

Grants and Honors

2001 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship Award, New York, NY Künstlerprogramm der Stadt Bleckede, Bleckede, Germany Landkreis Lüeneburg Artist Scholarship, Lüneburg, Germany 2000 PONCHO Artist-in-Residence, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA Artist Trust GAP Award; a grant to complete the video project, Discordant Harmony, Seattle, WA Artist Trust Fellowship, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA

Selected Bibliography Koplos, Janet. Maki Tamura, Art in America p.132 Issue No. 4. 2011. Platt, Susan Noyes. Art and Politics Now, Cultural Activism in a Time of Crisis, p. 222-224, p.240. Matilsky, Barbara. Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010, p.32 Jensen, Claire. Trees Get Sexy, Tacoma Weekly, 9/6/2009 Buhmann, Stephanie. Art Seen: Maki Tamura. The Brooklyn Rail, 10/2006 Tsai, Eugenie. Maki Tamura. Time Out New York, 1/15-22/2004, Issue No. 433 p. 57 Jana, Reena. Maki Tamura. ARTnews, p.148 Volume 103, Number 5, 2004. Esquivel, Karla. Hello Kitty, Good-Bye Innocence. Tablet Newspaper, 1/31/2003. Ong, Lie Shia. Cat Got Your Tongue? The Daily, 1/30/2003 Inaba, Yaeko. Japanese Artist has Exhibition at Seattle Asian Art Museum. North American Post, 1/25/2003. Hackett, Regina. Rabbit, Cat & Horse Exhibit Explores Sacred Symbols, Icons and Erotica. Seattle P-1, 1/4/2003 Stoesz, David. Maki Tamura. Seattle Weekly, 1/8/2003 Chang, Young. “Vignette” Examines Hello Kitty’s Allure. Seattle Times, 12/27/2002. Carboni, Massimo. Maki Tamura. Artforum International 40, no 1:201. Wege. Aus einem fernen Land. Lüeneburger Landeszeitung, 5/19/2001: Culture Section, p. 13. Cotter, Holland. Maki Tamura. The New York Times, 5/21/2000: Art in Review, p. 33. Bollen, Christopher. Maki Tamura. Time Out New York, 5/11/2000, p. 71. Sugiura, Kunie. New York. Bijutsu Techo, 7/2000, pp. 200-201. Hackett, Regina. Filling in the Gaps. The Seattle P-1, 8/3/2000: Sec. E1. Lamm, Elizabeth. Oh, Cologne. Artnet.com, 11/8/2000.