Biography
Tara de la Garza studied a BA in Fine Art at Curtin University in Western Australia and is currently in a resident studio program at Cubberley in Palo Alto, CA.
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De la Garza’s work is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Watson Library, NYC. She has had two solo exhibitions at The Lodge Gallery in NYC. She has also exhibited extensively throughout the US in museums and galleries such as Mass MOCA, Chicago Art Institute, Cornell University, San Diego Art Institute, Palo Alto Arts Center, Palace of Fine Arts SF, SF Design Week, numerous Spring/Break art fairs and at Context Miami.
Environmental justice and stewardship of the planet are central to Tara de la Garza’s art practice. She reveals the stories embedded in our collective consumption, specifically of single use plastic. She delves into the archaeology of contemporary waste materials.
Her minimalist forms contain a maximalist aesthetic of excess. Textures fashioned from the detritus of our community and molding into concrete cylinders and lights. Influenced by minimalist and constructivist artists such as Dan Flavin, Eva Hesse, Vladmir Tatlin, and contemporary artists Rachel Whiteread and Eva Rothschild, de la Garza’s ‘Monumental’ projects continue a practice of reusing materials and referencing modernist forms.
De la Garza has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant through Chashama NYC. She completed a residency at Terracycle in the summer of 2023, followed by a solo spotlight at Spring/Break NYC.
Exhibitions
2024 Group Show "Synthetic Nature', Upstart Modern, Sausalito, CA
2024 Group Show ‘Illuminating Perspectives’, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA
2023 Solo Artist Spotlight, Spring/Break, NYC
2023 Solo Show Terracycle Residency, Trenton NJ
2023 Group Show ‘Earth’ Palo Alto Arts Center CA
2023 Group Show ‘Pyramid Scheme’ Bass and Reiner, SF
2023 2 person show ‘Naked Lunch’, Spring/Break LA
2022 Group Show, Silicon Valley Sculpture Fair, Bay Area, SF
2022 Art Market SF, bG Gallery, Art Fair
2022 3 person show ‘At Stake’, Spring/Break LA
2022 Solo showcase ‘Focus on Form’ as part of Intersect Palm Springs
2021 Context Art Miami, bG Gallery, Miami
2021 Group Show, Weave, Bundle, Cut and Layer, Root Division, SF
2021 Public Art Commission ‘Social Distancing Stools’ Rinconada Park, Palo Alto CA
2021 Solo Show, “Sequestered’ Universally Unknown, LA online thru Topia
2021 Group Show, ‘Dream State’ Museum of Northern California (MONCA)
2020 Group Show, ‘Art in the Time of Corona’ NUMU, Los Gatos
2020 Group Show, ‘Art/World Australia’, bG Gallery, LA
2020 Group Show ‘Silicon Valley Sculpture’ Menlo College, CANN
2020 Solo Show ‘Monuments to the Plastocene IV’ Art Kiosk RWC, CA
2020 Group Show, Doom and Bloom, West Windsor Arts Center, NJ
2019 Group Show, Palace of Fine Arts, SF, Message in a Bottle, Surfrider Foundation
2019 San Francisco Design Week, Design Hub installation, SF
2019 Group Show ‘Spring Haiku’, Flatfile Gallery, NYC
2018 Group Show, Paper Cuts: Large Scale Collage, Palo Alto Arts Center, CA
2017 ‘Yellow Chair Extravaganza’, DAVID&SCHWEITZER Contemporary NY
2017 Solo Show at The Lodge Gallery, NYC ‘Unnatural Selection’
2017 San Diego Art Institute ‘Diverge/Convene’ Group show + workshop
2016 Solo projection ‘(; wink)’ The Great Wall of Oakland, Oakland SF
2016 Group Show ‘Nothing is Here; Dada is its Name’, Redwood City SF
2015 Group Show ‘New Paintings’, Aggregate Space Gallery
2014 Solo Show at The Lodge Gallery, NYC ‘Embracing Failure’
2013 2 Person show ‘Cinderscape’, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland SF
2012 Group Show, ‘Dia de los Muertos’, Arts Council of Princeton, NJ
2012 2 Person Show with Amanda Browder, ‘What Could You Do Here?’ Chashama, NYC
2011 Group Show ‘Town & Country’ 320 Studios, NYC
2011 Group Show ‘ArtJam’, Homefront ArtSpace, Princeton NJ
2011 MASS MOCA ‘An Exchange with Sol LeWitt’ North Adams, Massachusetts
2011 Group Show ‘Art for Soul’ A Gallery, NYC
2011 Book Launch’RIPE:conception and perception’ Allegra LaViola Gallery NYC
2010 Fremantle Arts Festival ‘Drawn Together’ Moores Building of Contemporary Art, Australia
2010 2 Person show ‘RIPE:conception and perception’ Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
2010 Group Show ‘Exquisite Salvage’ incomplete. 210 Clinton St,NYC- 2ONETWO
2010 Group Show ‘the possibility of a painting, Gallery Suite, Chelsea Hotel NYC
2009 Solo Show ‘By the Light’ 223 East Broadway, NYC
2009 Group Show ‘No Longer Empty’ storefronts at Chelsea Hotel, NYC
2009 Group Show ‘Figment’ Governor’s Island NYC
2009 Group Show ‘World Of Imagination Vol.2’, APW Gallery, NYC
2008 Group Show, Umbrella Arts, NYC
2008 Solo Installation ‘The Clubhouse’ Agni Gallery residency, NYC
2008 Group Show ‘Movement, Color and Light, Reflect Arts, NYC
2008 Group Show ‘Dada Art Fair’ Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2007 Group Show ‘Mail/Art Global Collaborative Massive” ABC No Rio, NYC