TAMMY RAE CARLAND
Represented by Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Lives and works in Oakland, CA
EXHIBITIONS
2025
Queer Histories, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil
2024
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Make Zines, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada
2023
Eureka! Creativity in the Golden State, California Artists at the Governor’s Mansion,
California State Governor’s Mansion, Sacramento, CA
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Make Zines, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2022
The Artist’s Eye: Tammy Rae Carland, David Huffman, Lava Thomas, John Zurier, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2021
We Are Here, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2020
Homage to a Circle, Jessica Silverman Gallery and Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Conversational Spirits II, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019
Tammy Rae Carland, Linfield Gallery, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR (solo)
Sense of Self, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
The Empathy Lab, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
What is an edition, anyway?, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
To Know Herself, The Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Queer California: Untold Stories, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2018
In the Eye of the Beholder, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, IL
Kinship, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Without Repair, Queen’s University Gallery, Ontario, Canada
The Poetry of Silence, Photofairs, San Francisco, CA
2017
Marching to the Beat, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016
Tammy Rae Carland, Retrospective, Jessica Silverman Gallery South, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Albee/Carland/Hauser/Oleson, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Collected, Pier 24 Museum, San Francisco, CA
2015
Alien She, Pacific Northwest College of Art: Feldman Gallery & Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
Tongue-In-Cheek, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
Occupational Therapy, The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Pratfall Tramps, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
Alien She, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Laugh-in: Art, Comedy, Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2014
Live From Somewhere, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Alien She, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
White is the Warmest Color, Hedge Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Para-Apparatus, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA
In Light of It, Contemporary Calgary Gallery, Alberta, Canada
Alien She, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2013
Alien She, Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA
Twisted Sisters: Reimagining Urban Portraiture, 2013 Sister City Exchange: San Francisco City Hall Gallery and Zürich, Museum Bärengasse, Zürich
We Had Nothing To Do And We Did It, Adobe Books Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Limited, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2012
I’m Dying Up Here, Clayman Institute, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (solo)
Bruce Conner and The Primal Scream of Punk Rock, MCA Denver, Denver, CO
You, Me, We, She, Fleisher / Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Route 3: Selections from the 101 Collection, The Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
2011
Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Istanbul, Turkey
Bay Area Now 6, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Eleven Lights On The Bay, The Apartment Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2010
Funny Face, I Love You, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2009
Hysteria: Past Yet Present, Rutgers Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, NJ
Sweet and Matchless, PLAySPACE Gallery, CCA, San Francisco, CA
2008
An Archive of Feelings, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2006
Gray Area, Uncertain Images: Bay Area Photography 1970’s to Now, Sonoma
Art Museum, Sonoma, CA
2004
Dreamscapes, University Art Gallery, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA
Felix Variations, PLAySPACE, CCA, San Francisco, CA
The Big Ballyhoo, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Gray Area, Uncertain Images: Bay Area Photography 1970’s to Now, The Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2003
Someone else’s yesterday, Spanganga Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
(r)Evolution of Gender, SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
Beds and Letters, Spring Street Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The Academic Eye, Lesbian Beds, Duke Museum, Durham, NC (solo)
On Becoming - Billy and Katie 1964, Franklin Center Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC (solo)
Towards Tomorrow, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2001
Photobacks, Partobject Gallery, Carboro, NC (solo)
1999
Queer Youth, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC (solo)
Post PC, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Artist/Audience, The Greenhill Center Gallery, Greensboro, NC
By Any Means, The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
1998
Random Letters to Ransom Girls, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC (solo)
Tuff and Tender, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
1997
On Becoming: Billy and Katie 1964, The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC (solo)
1996
Gender Fuck, Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
1995
Odd Girl Out, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
SCREENINGS
2009
Brooklyn is Burning, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY
Across Queer Time, in association with the National Queer Arts Festival, The Garage, San Francisco, CA
2008
Dear Joanie, I made a Movie: a survey of the Joanie 4 Jackie Chain Letter Tapes from 1995-2007, curated by Miranda July, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver BC, Canada, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago IL and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005
cry for everything bad that’s ever happened, international performance venues in Eastern and Western Europe, Japan, United State with the band Le Tigre
2003
Point Blank, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Queerly Classed, MIX '03 New York Experimental Video Festival, New York, NY
2001
Towards Tomorrow, Sound Unseen, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
1999
Voices From The Other Side of The Wall, Women in the Director’s Chair Festival, Chicago, IL
1998
Faking it, MIX '98 New York Experimental Video Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
I Came With The Rodeo, The Point, Atlanta, GA
1997
If Only You Were More Like Me, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA
My Failure to Assimilate, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Image and Nation Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
1996
Lady Outlaws, MIX '96, New York Experimental Video Festival, The Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Miss Moviola Project, A traveling video compilation chain letter, curated by Miranda July, locations internationally
Dirty Bird, Artist Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, CA
1995
Berlin International Film/Video Festival, Berlin, Germany
Odd Girl Out, San Francisco International Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival, San Francisco, CA
Reel Time, P.S. 122, Performance Space 122, New York, NY
Way Out, Segue Space, New York, NY
No More Sweets For You, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Odd Girl Out, New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Joseph Papp Theater, New York, NY
1994
Growing Up Female, Film and Video Festival University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Out About Age, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Odd Girl Out, MIX '94, New York Experimental Video Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA
2024
Book, Gemma Rolls-Bentley, Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between, published by Francis Lincoln, artist reproductions and essay on work
Book, Flora Dunster and Theo Gordan, Photography: A Queer History, published by ilex, artist reproduction and essay on work
2023
Catalog, The Artist’s Eye, edited by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2022
Review, Tony Brava, 7 Bay Area art exhibitions not to miss this spring, San Francisco Chronicle Datebook. March 16th
2020
Review, Caroline Goldstein, A Transporting New Exhibition Explores the Possibility That All Things Are Imbued With Spiritual Life, Artnet News, July 31st
2019
Review, Roula Seikaly, Two Queer Artists Recreate San Francisco’s Shuttered Dyke Bars, Hyperallergic, April 19th
Review, Ryan Kost, Exhibition creates space for queer women while exploring the spaces they’ve lost, SF Chronicle, April 18th
Catalog, To Know Herself, edited by Yomna Osman, The Wattis Institute
2018
Article, Glen Helfand, Tammy Rae Carland, Aperture Magazine, December
2016
Review, Sarah Hotchkiss, Artful Dodger: Jump into June with Visual Art, KQED Arts, June 1st
Review, Sarah Burke, Tammy Rae Carland, East Bay Express, May 25th
Article, Tina Takemoto, Queer Art / Queer Failure, Art Journal 75:1, May
Article, Caroline Smith, Discover the Unsung American Female Photographers of the Past Century, TIME Magazine, March 23rd
2015
Book, Tammy Rae Carland, Some of us did not die, published by LAND & SEA, artist book
Review, Pratfall Tramps, Katie Geha, ArtForum, February
Catalog, Pratfall Tramps, edited by Rachel Reese, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center
Review, Art in the Grip of Riot Grrrl, Thea Quiray Tagle, Hyperallergic, January 22
Review, Sarah Burke, What Was Withheld: Tammy Rae Carland’s ‘Some of Us Did Not Die, East Bay Express, October 21st
2014
Review, Joseph Akel, Tammy Rae Carland: Critic’s Pick, Artforum, February
Review, Kenneth Baker, Tammy Rae Carland Turns Up the Pressure to Always Be On, San Francisco Chronicle, January 31st
Book, Sara Thornton, 33 Artists in 3 Acts, Book, published by Norton Press, artist reproductions and chapter on artist, US edition cover reproduction
Book, Dana Seitler and Ann Cvetkovich, Feeling Photography, published by Duke Press, artist reproductions and essays, cover reproduction
2013
Book, Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer, Art and Queer Culture (Themes and Movements Series), published by Phaidon, artist reproductions and essay on work
Book, Lisa Darms, The Riot Grrrl Collection, Feminist Press, artist reproductions and essay on work
Documentary interview, The Punk Singer, directed by Sini Anderson
2010
Radio Interview, Tammy Rae Carland, Bad at Sports: Episode 270. October 31st
Review, Matt Stromberg, Tammy Rae Carland, Art Practical, October
Review, Julie Henson, Tammy Rae Carland, Daily Serving, October 9th
Review, Joseph Akel, Funny Face, I Love You: Critic’s Pick, Artforum, October
Review, Dena Beard, Tammy Rae Carland, Art Practical, September
Blog, Tammy Rae Carland, Collection Rotation, SFMOMA Open Space, September 13th
Review, Kate Steciw, Tammy Rae Carland, The Photography Post, September 7th
2008
Review, Glen Helfand, An Archive Of Feelings, Artforum, July
Review, Johnny Ray Huston, Tammy Rae Carland, San Francisco Bay Guardian, July
Review, Jano Cortijo, Tammy Rae Carland, Shotgun Review, July 15th
Review, Victoria Gannon, Tammy Rae Carland, KQED, July 10th
Review, Jano Cortijo, Tammy Rae Carland, Edge, July 8th
Catalog, The Way That We Rhyme, edited by Berin Golonu, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2005
Artist Pages, Tammy Rae Carland, Big Magazine, #54
2004
Artist Pages, Tammy Rae Carland, LTTR, Issue No. 3, July
Review, Carl Nagin, Home Work, San Francisco Weekly, February 4th
Review, Johnny Ray Houston, Better Homes and Galleries, San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 14th
Review, Glen Helfand, Age of Ambivalence, San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 24th
2003
Review, Ed Halter, A Few Odd Girls Out Leave Behind the Old New Queer Cinema, The
Village Voice, November 19th
Review, Nancy Millar, Tammy Rae Carland, Jane, Jan - February
Review, Thurston Moore, Tammy Rae Carland, The Wire, January
Television Interview, Self Made Culture, In the Life, January
2002
Review, Holland Cotter, Tammy Rae Carland, The New York Times, December 13th
Article, Out 100 people of the Year, Out Magazine, December
Review, Barbara McKenzie, Picture Puzzles, Independent, Oct. 16th
Review, Blue Greenberg, Rumpled Sheets, Durham Herald Sun, Oct. 13th
Article, How to Make it in the Music Biz, Curve Magazine, August
Television interview, Southern Comfort, Dyke TV, March
Review, Elin O’hara Slavick, Deliberately Visible: The Multiple Meanings of Tammy Rae Carland, The Independent Weekly, January 2nd
2001
Review, Jimmy Draper, Kings and Queens, San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 17th
Article, Pamela Grossman, Mr. Lady Rocks, Ms. Magazine, Oct - November
Article, Dave White, A Home for Homocore, The Advocate, June 19th
Article, Kat Parker, Indies 2001: Triangle Arts Awards, Independent, June 27th
Article, Todd Fjelsted, En Garde, Independent Weekly, September 5th
2000
Article, Whitney Vaughan, Behind the Curtain, Independent Weekly, November 15th
Book, Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux press, October, 2000
Article, Ann Cvetkovich and Gretchen Phillips, Revenge of the Girl Bands, The Nation, July 10th
Review, Jutta Sommerbauer, Some Grrrls are Ladies, Nylon, Vienna Austria, August, 2000
Article, Evelyn McDonnell, Girls + Guitars, Out Magazine, April 2000
1999
Article, Amy Kellner, That’s Mr. Lady To You, Time Out New York, October 14th
Article, Tara Mateik, Surveying the Scene, Felix
Article, Kathleen Hanna, Mr. Lady, Out Magazine, March
1998
Book, Deborah Bright, The Passionate Camera; Photography and Bodies of Desire, published by Routledge Press, artist reproductions and essay
Review, Linda Johnson Dougherty, Tammy Rae Carland, Art Papers, March-April
Review, Kimberly Yutani, I Came With the Rodeo, review, Southern Voice, February
1997
Book, Tristin Taormino and Karen Green, A Girl’s Guide To Taking Over The World: A Decade Of Girl Zines, published by St. Martins Press, artist reproductions and essay
Artist Page, Tammy Rae Carland Art Papers, Nov-Dec
Review, Cecilia Dougherty, Odd Girl Out: Tammy Rae Carland, New Art Examiner, October
Review, Evelyn McDonnell, Grrrls on Film, The Village Voice, November 12
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, CA and Paris, France
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia, PA
SFO Museum, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
EDUCATION
Fellow, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY
MFA, University of California, Irvine, CA
BA, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA