M.F.A. Sculpture, The California College of Arts & Crafts, 1994
B.F.A. Sculpture, The California College of Arts & Crafts, 1992
Represented by Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, since 2007
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Nobody told me you are here, The Crown, Oakland, CA
2019 Surviving on One pure thought a day, The Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
https://renabranstengallery.com/exhibitions/tara-tucker-surviving-on-one-pure-thought-a-day/
2019 Tara Tucker, The Crown, Oakland, CA
2014 Big Foot Loves Minicorn on a Mattress, McRoskey Mattress Company, San Francisco, CA
2013 Bigfoot Loves Minicorn, Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, TX
2011 If Wishes Were Horses, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Please Release Me, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
2009 Foreign Relations, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Zooid, OSP Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 Friend and Foe, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Brackish Ways, Musée d'Honneur Miniscule, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Dogs & Cats, September, Kinderhook, NY
2023 Invocations, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022 Shimmer, Center House Gallery, Berkshire Botanical Gardens, Stockbridge, MA
2021 When Nobody Is Watching, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020 OPEN, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2019 Hands and Pants, Faultline Gallery, Oakland, CA
2018 Botanical, The Berkshire Botanical Garden with The Geoffrey Young Gallery, Berkshire, MA
2018 The Portrait Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Brink, Antler Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 The Poison Garden, Talon Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 Idols and Icons, The Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2017 All Things Great and Small, The Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2017 Sweet N Low, The Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2016 Solar Vortex, The Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2016 Bird in the Hand, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto
2015 Drawing Discourse, UNC Asheville, Asheville, NC
2015 Image is Everything, The Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2015 Cardiovascular, The Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2014 Group Show, 28 Matingnon/Marciano Contemporary, Paris, France
2014 Casheesh, The Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2014 Reigning Cats and Dogs, The Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 The Reason for Beauty, The Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2014 Reconnaissance, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2013 Larger Than Life, The Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2012 Evolutionary Insight, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2011 The Future Is Not What It Used To Be, LeBasse Projects, Culver City, CA
2010 Animal Instinct, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, WI
2009 Natural Blunders, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2009 (un)Natural, diRosa Art Preserve, Napa, CA
2009 Front + Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2008 Contemporary Drawings and Works on Paper, Center for Contemporary Arts, Sacramento, CA
2008 A Complicated Dominion, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Bestiaries, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
2008 Creature Feature, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2020 Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg, CA
2019 Facebook AIR program, Fremont, CA
2019 Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg, CA
2017 KALA/Savoir Faire Partnership award, edition of 35 prints, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2017 Mothership Residency, Dorset, UK
2016 The Brush Creek Ranch Foundation for the Arts Residency, Saratoga, WY
2011 JB Blunk Residency, Inverness, CA
2007 The Ospital Odyssey Sabbatical Award, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA
1993 Murphy/Cadogan Fellowship, The San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2002–Present Lead facilitator, head of rug department, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland
2010–Present “Yawning Javalina with Owls” tote bag and apron graphics, Modern Appealing Clothing, San Francisco
2023–2024 Invited speaker, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2019 Facebook AIR program, large mural installation, Fremont, CA campus
2018-2019 Mural, Studiotobe, Oakland, CA
2018 Speaker and facilitator for Cooper Hewitt Lab: Design Access: Rug Making with Creative Growth Art Center, Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York
2018 Speaker, Sonoma State University, CA
2013–2018 Illustrations for The Hudson Vineyard, Napa, CA
PUBLICATIONS
A Place of Creation, Fariba Bogzaran, hardcover book, Lucid Art Foundation, 2024
“Tara Tucker Portrait,” Brigitte Magazine, Sabine Danek, July 2020 issue
Hands and Pants The Book, collaboration with John Casey, 2019
“Suddenly She Could Draw,” video by Nathan Dalton, 2018
Juxtapoze Wild, book, Gingko Press, 2015
Interview, IN THE MAKE, August 2012
Juxtapoz Magazine, feature article by Hannah Stouffer, September 2011 issue
PAGE Magazine, Cover art, December 2011 issue, Germany
PAGE Magazine, Artist Portrait, July 2011 issue, Germany
“Animal Dreams, Tara Tucker at OSP/ Steven Zevitas Gallery,” Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, February 14, 2008
ZYZZYVA, Spring 2008, Vol. 82 No.I
New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Pacific Coast edition #73, 2007
“Tara Tucker at Rena Bransten Gallery,” David Buuck, Artweek, July/August 2007
“Martin Mull: Works on Paper and Tara Tucker: Friend and Foe,” Lea Feinstein, SF Weekly, May 9, 2007
