Represented by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco
Tammy Rae Carland is an artist whose work primarily addresses marginalization, performance and cultural and domestic archives. She works with photography, as well as film, video, sculpture, collage and publications. Her work has been exhibited and screened internationally. Group shows include the Queer Histories at the Museu de Arte de in São Paulo Brazil, Copy Machine Manifesto; Artists Who Make Zines at the Brooklyn Museum and Vancouver Art Gallery, the 12th Istanbul Biennale in Istanbul, Turkey, Seeing Gertrude Stein at the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum and Alien She, which traveled from the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon to the Orange County Museum of Art and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She is represented by Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco where she has had several solo shows. Her work has been reproduced and written about in numerous publications including: The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America and TIME Magazine, as well as the books: Art & Queer Culture edited by Catherine Lord and Richard Myer, Feeling Photography edited by Dana Seitler and Ann Cvetkovich, 33 Artists in 3 Acts by Sarah Thornton and The Riot Grrrl Collection by Lisa Darms. Carland has work in the permanent collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Kadist Art Foundation; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and San Francisco International Airport Museum.
In the 1990’s Carland produced a series of influential fanzines, including I (heart) Amy Carter, and collaborated on the record art of seminal underground music releases for the bands Bikini Kill, The Fakes and The Butchies. From 1997-2004 she founded and co-ran Mr. Lady Records and Videos, an independent record label and video art distribution company dedicated to feminist and queer culture. Tammy Rae Carland received her MFA from UC Irvine, her BA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington and was a Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City. She has also had a 32 year career in higher education where she taught at various colleges and from 2016-2025 she was the provost at the California College of the Arts. She lives and works in Oakland California.