Jessica Tatara
Boston, MA
857-417-9063
www.adigitalprintmaking.weebly.com
Education
2016 Masters of Fine Arts
Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts
2008 Bachelor of Art
University of California, Berkeley
Selected Awards
2017 Davis Publication Educator Award, MAEA Boston, MA
2013 Scholarship, SMFA Boston, MA
2008 Award of Excellence, UC Berkeley Art Department, Berkeley, CA
2006 Artsbridge America Scholar, Consortium of the Arts, Berkeley, CA
Honors Award UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2005 CAL Parents Letter Home Featured Student, Berkeley, CA
CAL Bears Scholar UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Honors Award UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Dean’s List, Santa Monica City College, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Dean’s List, Santa Monica City College, Santa Monica, CA
2003 Dean’s List, Santa Monica City College, Santa Monica, CA
2001 National Congressional Grand Award Winner, 6th Congressional District MA, Beverly, MA
1997 Eastern Sectional Ladies Intermediate Figures Champion, United States Figure Skating Association, Hicksville, NY
1993 American Lung Cancer Art Award
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 "Paint The Music" Somerville Public Library, Somerville, MA
2019 Group Show at the Wonzimer Gallery Los Angeles, CA
2017 "Picturing Social Justice" Group Show at The Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, Brookline, MA
2016 Cyclorama, SMFA Graduate Group Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2015 "Authentricity" Thomas Young Gallery, South Boston, MA
2015 “Changing Cities” Students Curate Students, SFMA, Boston, MA
2014 Education for the Exceptional Child, Tufts University, Medford, MA
“Refraction” Assistant Curator, SMFA, Boston MA
2011 “Prytanean Global Art Exhibit”, Assistant Curator, Eshelman Hall UCB, Berkeley, CA
Permanent Collection of Berkeley City College
“New Color” Bridgehead Studios, Alameda, CA
2010 Fall Arts Festival, Berkeley City College, Berkeley, CA
2009 “Silent Art Auction” 111 Minna Donating Photographer, San Francisco, CA
“Art & Action” The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 “Gymnasium” Headlining Performer, The Matador, San Francisco, CA
“Thriller on Ice” Shark’s Ice, Oakland, CA
“48Straight / The Seen” Presented by Eclipse TV, Monster, Jeep, Squaw Valley, CA
“USC Art Auction/ Lazarex”, CA
“Painting Show” Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2007 Café Strata, Berkeley, CA
“Push Pin Show”ASUC Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
“ Identity Art” ASUC Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
“Save the Oaks Silhouettes” Sproul Plaza/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
“Painting the Poetry of Langston Hughes”, Kroeber Hall Atrium, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
“Limitless Nocturnal Void” Garron Reading Room Corridor, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
“Dream Seeds” Music Library Park, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
“Kitty Klub” Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
“Heller Lounge’s Poetry After the Storm” Berkeley, CA
“Painting Poetry of Langston Hughes” Oxford Elementary School, Berkeley, CA
“Temporal Structures WE All have hearts” Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2006 Café Stata, Berkeley, CA
“Push Pin Show” ASUC Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
“Solar Power Art Exhibit” Wurster Hall, Berkeley, CA
2005 “Kitty Klub” Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2004 “The Jellyfish Treatment” LA County Fair, Millard Sheets Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Tsunami Benefit Art & Auction”, donating photographer, Venice, CA