BORN
Born, Santa Barbara, CA, 1970
EDUCATION
1994 M.F.A Sculpture, The California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1992 B.F.A. Sculpture, The California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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’Honeur Miniscule, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
1994 CCAC Master of Fine Arts Show, Beast: A Domestic History, The Oliver Art Center/Tecoah Bruce Gallery, Oakland, CA
1992 Tara Tucker: Sculpture, XerXes, Oakland, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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 Dontemporary 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
2007 Alumni at the Centennial, California College of the Arts, Oliver Art Center, Tecoah Bruce Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006 Virus, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006 Happiness for all the artists, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA
2006 Fabulandia: Fauna, Curator: Lauren Davies, The LAB, San Francisco, CA
2005 Spatial Oddities, 33 Grand, Oakland, CA
2005 Kala Institute Artist's Annual Exhibition, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
2005 Better Than Real, Mixed Use Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Inner Workings, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
2004 The Drawing Room, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
2002 Orange, !hey! Gallery, Oakland, CA
2001 Side Show, Ardency Gallery, Oakland, CA
2001 Pacific Rim Sculptors Group 2001 Members Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
2000 Paintings and Sculpture by Tara Tucker and Michael Hall, !hey! Gallery, Oakland, CA
2000 Group Show, !hey! Gallery, Oakland, CA
1999 BOW WOW! It's a Dog's Life, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA Home Spun, Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA.
1996 1708 Gallery Annual Show, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
1996 Fourth Annual Luggage Show, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
1996 Countdown 2000, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
1993 Group show, The Blue/Green Gallery, Oakland, CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2002-Present Art instructor, head of rug department, Creative Growth Art Center,
Oakland, CA
1999-2002 Rug restoration, Claremont Rug Company, Oakland, CA
1989-1994 Administrative assistant in charge of artist registry and slide files, The Oliver Art Center/Tecoah Bruce Gallery, Oakland, CA
AWARDS
2004 Kala Fellowship, Honorable Mention, one month residency, Kala Art Institute,
Berkeley, CA
1993 Murphy/Cadogan Fellowship, The San Francisco Foundation
Graduate Scholarship, The California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1992 Graduate Scholarship, The California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1991 All College Honors Award, Honorable Mention, The California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1988 A.I.C.A. Full One-Year Tuition Scholarship, The California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1988–1992 Fine Art Scholarship, Santa Barbara Scholarship Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA
1988 Honorable Mention, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Visual Arts
1988 Top Honor, Visual Arts Competition, Awarded Full Four-Year Tuition, The College of Creative Studies, U.C. Santa Barbara