TIA FACTOR
tiafactor@hotmail.com

Tia Factor received her M.F.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001 and her B.F.A. from the California College of the Arts (CCA) in 1997. Factor has been a instructor at the Oxbow School in Napa, California and for the Department of Art Practice at the University of California at Berkeley. She has curated several exhibitions in the Bay Area and has been included in numerous solo and group shows in galleries and museums throughout the region. Most recently she was awarded an ArtsTasmania International Natural and Cultural Residency, producing a new series of paintings while on residency in Tasmania. Factor is currently organizing the exhibition, THE LAST FRONTIER(S): Tasmania on the North American West Coast, a show that will tour the West Coast in 2010 featuring artists from Tasmanian exploring issues of place in their work. This coming October 2008, Factor will be in a two-person show at Swarm Gallery (Oakland, CA), where she is represented. She currently resides in Portland, OR.

awards and honors

2005 – Juror’s Choice Award, SVMA Biennial 2005, Jurors: Larry Rinder, Janet Bishop, Chris Brown
2001 – J. Ruth Kelsey Traveling Merit Award, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley
2000 – Eisner Fine Art Award, University of California, Berkeley
1997 -– High Distinction, California College of the Arts, Painting Department

solo exhibitions

2007 – The Subjective Landscape, Gallery 6a, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
2006 – Spaceball Ricochet, Keys That Fit Gallery, Oakland, CA
2005 – The Reflected Nature Series, Atelier Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2002 – The Moment Nothing Became Everything, Little Worth-Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2001 – Six Poem Paintings, Swallow, Brooklyn, NY
1998 – Monkeys, Mudras, and Shadow Bunnies, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

selected exhibitions

2008

October, Yet Untitled, Two-person Show, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
Optic Illusion: Southern Exposure’s Annual Art Auction, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Intersection’s 2008 Art Fundraiser, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2007
Alumni at the Centennial, Oliver Art Center, Tecoah Bruce Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

2006
Oakland: East Side Story, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Works On Paper, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
State of the Nation, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Sixth Annual Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

2005
SVMA Biennial 2005, Jurors, Larry Rinder, Janet Bishop, Chris Brown, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
Paper! Awsome!, Pigman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Picturing Berlin, Galerie sphn Artist Studio, Berlin, Germany

2004
State of the Nation, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Periphery 2, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art + Craft, Portland, OR
Trabajos del Corazon, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
A La Carte, Pond, San Francisco, CA
Advance to Go, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

2003
Garage Sale, Build Gallery, San Francisco
Landing, 13th Annual Juried Exhibition, Juror, Manray Hsu, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Flat Constellations 2, Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Boutique, Black Bird Space, San Francisco, CA
Periphery, Worth-Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

2002
Western States Small Works 2002, Juror, Ralph Rugoff, Museum of Contemporary Art at the Burbank Center, Santa Rosa, CA

2001
Mastermind, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
MFA Survey Exhibition 2001, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Five Star, MFA exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
DrawingInResidence: Phase 1, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA
CloseUpClose, Juror, Rupert Jenkins, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA

2000
The Space Between Up and Down, collaboration with Lisa Perez, Institution, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
MFA Annual 2000, On-line Exhibition, New American Paintings

1999
Blind Date, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
Windows On Art, Project of the City of Fremont, collaboration with Renee Gertler, Fremont, CA

1998
two person exhibition: New Paintings, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA

teaching experience

August 2004 – July 2007, Painting + Drawing Instructor, The Oxbow School, Napa, CA
May 2004 – July 2004, Lecturer, Art 117 – Advanced Drawing + Composition
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Art Practice
May 2003 – July 2003, Lecturer, Art 117 – Advanced Drawing + Composition
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Art Practice
August 2000 - May 2001, Graduate Student Instructor, Art 8, An Introduction to Visual Thinking
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Art Practice

projects curated

2010 – The Last Frontier(s), Tasmania on the North American West Coast, multiple venues on West Coast to be determined
2004 – What the World Needs Now (The Love Show), Black Bird Space, San Francisco, CA
2002 – Deep Seeded: A West Oakland Urban Farm Art Exhibition, Oakland, CA

residencies

September 2007 – International Natural + Cultural Residency Program, Arts Tasmania, Port Arthur Historic Site, Tasmania, AUS
March 2004 – Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
December 2001 – Kala Bhavana, Kerala, India

education

2001 – MFA, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1997 – BFA, Painting Department, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

bibliography

Stretcher, January 2007, ‘Sampling What?’
(http://www.stretcher.org/archives/e1_a/2006_12_20_e1_archive.php)
Shotgun Review, May 2006, ‘Tia Factor at Keys That Fit Gallery’
(http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/000276.html)
Artweek, April 2004, Volume 35, Issue 3, Review, Lindsey Westbrooke ,‘What the World Needs Now (the Love Show)’
New American Paintings: M.F.A Annual 2001, Juror, Lisa Phillips, Open Studios Press, Boston
East Bay Express, July 2001, Review, Lindsey Westbrook, ‘Mighty Fine Art’
digitalcity.com, San Francisco, July 2001, Pick, Megan Wilson, Arts & Culture, ‘Annual MFA Survey Exhibition’
Look, Spring 2001,The Quarterly Magazine of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

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