About
Tamarind Rossetti is an artist and writer from Ojai, who works in Los Angeles, CA and Salt Spring Island, BC on projects that explore the process of time, through place, memory, home and connection through language. She works primarily with painting, writing, and time-based media. She holds an undergraduate degree in Art Practice and English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, summa cum laude, and an MFA in Public Practice from Otis College of Art and Design. Her project A Guest House for Travelers documented daily existence through everyday objects in people's homes. As Artist-in-Residence at the Ojai Raptor Center 2014-2015, her work centered on systems and recovery after power is lost. Language as Material, worked with past and future creation through collective word revision. M, Version 17 was a 1 ½ year journey through memory loss and autobiography, seeing identity separate from language. Her work has been shown at FRAC Poitou-Charentes, site d’Angoulême, France; ForYourArt, Los Angeles, CA; the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA; MorYork Gallery, Highland Park, CA; PT Gallery, Japan and others. In 2014 she was selected for the Los Angeles County Arts Commission Civic Artists Pre-Qualified List. Her work is in the public collection FRAC Poitou-Charentes.
EDUCATION
Otis College of Art and Design
MFA Public Practice 2013
University of California, Berkeley
BA Art Practice and English Literature, summa cum laude 1998
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
A Guest House for Travelers, Little House Gallery and Project Space, Venice, CA 2015 Be·longing MorYork Gallery, Highland Park, CA 2010
New Paintings Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA 2010
Orbital Revolutions Worth-Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA 1999
Bikini Explosion Worth-Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA 1996
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Song Waves, 3307 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 2017 Sommaire, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, site d’Angoulême, France 2017 (En)Gendered (In)Equity Gallery Tally Project, LACE LA, CA 2016 Gallery Tally Project, Santiago, Chile 2015 ITSWOLF, Tourist Kiosk, Perform Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA 2015 1 Minute x 1 Image Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2015
Nothing Heavy Pomona Packing Plant, Pomona, CA 2013
A Mess and A Pleasure: Practicing in Public ForYourArt, Los Angeles, CA 2013
Nostra Fortuna Otis at 18th St. Art Center, Santa Monica, CA 2012
Portable Park IV and Consuming Nature Pacific Standard Time Performance Festival, 2012
Otis Public Practice with Bonnie Sherk, Santa Monica, CA
(pre) Otis at 18th St. Art Center, Santa Monica, CA 2011
Tarfest Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA 2011
Summer Show Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA 2011
It Is What It Is What It Is Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA 2009
East Meets West Tibet Atelier, Ghent, Belgium 2007
Himalayan Vision VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2007
Eastern Vision Tibet Gallery, Dharamsala, India 2006
PoweringUp/PoweringDown Neurosciences Institute UCSD, CA 2004
Contemporary Images Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ 2001
Nature of Things Open Ground, Brooklyn, NY 2000 Women Work, PT Gallery, Hamamatsu, Japan 1998 It’s an Ishi Thanksgiving, Worth-Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA 1998
Women Beyond/Borders Moving Train, St. Petersburg, Russia and International 1996
The Soft Show Worth-Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA 1995
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT PROJECTS
Market Lab at Katz's Deli, with Amanda Katz, LA, CA 2016 Guided Meditation, Artists Breathe, Little House Gallery, Venice, CA 2015 Connect the Dots, Pacoima City Hall, Pacoima, CA 2015
Ethyl Percy Andrus Living Legacy, The Gables Retirement Community, Ojai, CA 2014
Language as Material, Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA 2014
Memory and Loss, The Gardens Assisted Living, Santa Monica, CA 2013
Be·longing MorYork Gallery, Highland Park, CA 2010
It Is What It Is What It Is Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA 2009
A Child’s Imagination and a Border Remixed, San Ysidro, CA and Tijuana, MX 2004
SITE-GENERATED AND COMMISSIONS The Beginning of Water: Connect the Dots, LA Great Streets, Van Nuys, CA 2016 Ojai Raptor Center, Ojai, CA 2015
Setting Sun, HD Video Installation, Santa Monica Mall, Santa Monica, CA 2012
Padmasambhava and Lakshmi Murals, Ratna Ling, Cazadero, CA 2009
Sri Pa Ho Protection Mandala Mural, Ratna Ling, Cazadero, CA 2008
Amitabha, Meditation Center, Ojai, CA 2006
RESIDENCIES
3307 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 4.1.17-5.31.17 2017
Ojai Raptor Center, Ojai, CA, July 2014-July 2015 2014
LECTURES AND PANELS
Memory/Loss, Open Engagement, Portland, OR 2013
Memory and Loss, Video Discussion, The Gardens Assisted Living, Santa Monica, CA 2013
What did we learn from dOCUMENTA (13)? Panel Discussion, Otis at 18th St. Arts Center, 2012
with John Tain, Leslie Labowitz-Starus, Ciara Ennis, Santa Monica, CA
Heart Walk Project, Open Engagement, Portland, OR 2012
Organic Creative, Whole Foods Headquarters, Austin, TX 2011
Mysterion/Myein, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA 2010
Orbital Revolution, Haas Retreat Lecture, Berkeley, CA 1999
AWARDS
Great Streets Challenge Grant, Connect the Dots Team - City of Los Angeles, CA 2015
Los Angeles County Arts Commission Civic Artists Pre-Qualified List, LA, CA 2014-2016
Quickgrant, Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles, CA 2013
Franklin Grant, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA 2012
Graduate Scholarship, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA 2012
Quickgrant, Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles, CA 2011
Graduate Scholarship, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA 2011
Creative Capacity Fund, San Francisco, CA 2010
Dvortcsak Art Scholarship, Ojai, CA 2006
Robert & Colleen Haas Award, Berkeley, CA 1998
Eisner Award for Film and Video, Berkeley, CA 1998
Phi Beta Kappa, Berkeley, CA 1998
Undergraduate Art Scholarship, Berkeley, CA 1996
Ojai Artist's Scholarship, Ojai, CA 1995
Rights: all reproductions of work by Tamarind Rossetti on this site and sites linked to it are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Please note that this license only applies for non-commercial uses, e.g. presentation in a classroom or academic talk; if you want to use images or video in any for-profit context, please contact me first.