tamara suarez porras || b. 1986 in (south) Brooklyn, NY || lives & works in Berkeley, CA ​

Education 2018 MA, Visual + Critical Studies, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA Thesis: (re)Arranging Pictures and (re)Reading Histories ​ Committee: Michele Carlson, Karen Fiss, Jacqueline Francis 2017 MFA, Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA Thesis Exhibition: go under false ​ Committee: Drew Heitzler, Aspen Mays, Ranu Mukherjee 2010 MST, Childhood Special Education (Gr. K-6), Pace University, New York, NY 2008 BFA, Photography + Imaging and Journalism, New York University, New York, NY

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions 2018 field notes for useful light, Embark Gallery and Prelinger Library, San Francisco, CA ​ eclipsis, Meyer Library at California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA ​ 2017 The NOT-APPLICAbLE Office (Project Space Takeover), Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco CA ​ 2014 insatiate, En Foco Touring Gallery at Riverside Library, New York, NY ​

Selected Group Exhibitions 2018 It Literally Is What It Is, PS8 at Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA ​ Seeing Red, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA ​ 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 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 ​ 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 ​ 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 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 ​ Show Three, NYU Gulf + Western Gallery, New York, NY ​ 2007 Up Next, Deitch Projects, New York, NY ​ 2004 Teen Academy Exhibition, E3 Gallery, New York, NY ​

Writing and Publications 2018 Notes from MoAD: Interview with Emily Kuhlman and Soleil Summer, Art Practical podcast (forthcoming) ​ ​ ​ ​ Memorial Ruin: On Once Upon Awakening, catalogue essay for Lida Abdul in Deep-Time Construction at ​ ​ ​ Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, co-published with contemptorary ​ The Matter of Photography in the Americas, Art Practical review ​ ​ (re)Arranging Pictures and (re)Reading Histories: Leslie Hewitt’s Still Life, CCA Sightlines Journal ​ ​ ​ N/A, 4-part zine series in dialogue with Mechanisms exhibition at Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art ​ ​ ​ Performances and Screenings 2018 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 ​

Teaching Experience 2018 Lecturer, Tools 1: Black-and-White Photography, California College of the Arts (forthcoming, Fall 2018) ​ Instructor, Photography, New York State Summer School of the Media Arts at SUNY Alfred 2017 Teaching Assistant, Media History II: Living Painters, California College of the Arts, Fall 2017 Professor Christine Wang Instructor, Photography, New York State Summer School of the Media Arts at SUNY Alfred Instructor, Photography, Fort Mason Young Artist Summer Program, City College of San Francisco 2016 Instructor, Photography, New York State Summer School of the Media Arts at SUNY Oswego 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 2010 - 2015 Instructor, School at the International Center of Photography, New York, NY Courses: Imagemakers (advanced year-long course), Photography I in Black-and-White, ​ ​ Photography II in Black-and-White, Lighting for the Portrait, Picturing Civil Rights, Documenting Community, Focus on Technique, Master Darkroom Printing, Portfolio Development 2008 - 2011 Special Education Teacher (Gr. 3-5), PS 90 and Achievement First Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY 2008 - 2010 Arts Educator (Upper Elementary), YWCA, Brooklyn, NY 2004 - 2009 Teaching Assistant, School at the International Center of Photography

Professional Experience 2018 - present Communications Manager, Art Practical, San Francisco CA 2017 - present Museum Educator, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA 2016 - present Adjunct Educator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Gallery Docent, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA Photo Editor - One Day Magazine, Teach For America, New York, NY ​ ​ 2013 - 2016 Director, Brand Photography, Teach For America, New York, NY 2012 - 2013 Manager, Project Management and Digital Strategy, Teach For America, New York, NY 2011 - 2012 Specialist, Digital Initiatives, Teach For America, New York, NY 2008 - 2010 Teach For America Corps Member (New York City 2008 Corps) 2004 - 2008 Senior Desktop Support Technician, New York University - Bobst Library, New York, NY

Awards, Grants, Fellowships, and Residencies 2018 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 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 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship StartingBloc Fellow

Lectures and Presentations 2018 (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 Critic, ICP Imagemakers, International Center of Photography The Art of Rube Goldberg, for Contemporary Jewish Museum at Lafayette Public Library’s Art Talks ​ ​ The Art of Rube Goldberg, for Contemporary Jewish Museum at The Sequoias in San Francisco, California ​ 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 Critic, ICP Imagemakers, International Center of Photography Artist Lecture, New York State Summer School of the Arts at Alfred State 2016 Guest Critic, 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 Critic, 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

Curatorial and Programming 2018 a MEETING PLACE for prima & pauline: performance and screening program with MEETING PLACE: ​ ​ ​ Nkiruka Oparah and Dionne Lee, LAND AND SEA, Oakland ​ ​ field notes, public performance program at Prelinger Library, San Francisco, CA ​ N/A Launches, public programming at Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art and Hubbell Street Galleries ​ 2016 Echo after Echo [co-curated film screening], at CTRL+SHFT Collective, Oakland, CA ​ 2015 Teen Academy Imagemakers Exhibition, The Rita K. Hillman Education Gallery, ​ International Center of Photography, New York, NY 2014 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 ​