B I O G R A P H Y

Tamara Albaitis works as an interdisciplinary artist, particularly through sound, sculpture and installation.

Tamara was born in Flint, Michigan in 1979. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2002. She studied in China during her bachelor studies, earning a Certificate of Completion from the International School of Art in Hanghzou, China in Chinese Landscape Painting and Theory. In 2003, she was invited to start the first experimental sound department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating 2005 with the first MFA in sound art in the United States.

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Tamara has shown extensively nationally and internationally at prestigious institutions such as the 9th International Istanbul Biennial, The European Sound Delta in Paris, France (in collaboration with the Collectiv MU,) Project Creo in St. Petersburg, Florida, The Digital Media Centre in Bracknell, England, artTransponder in Berlin, Germany, V2 Institute for Unstable Media in Rotterdam, Netherlands, The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, California and G2 Gallery in Chicago, Illinios. She was the recipient for the Elizabeth Skinner Award and has received scholarships to the Vermont Studio Center and the Djerassi Foundation.

Currently, she is preparing works for The Headlands in Marin, California and the Chinese Cultural Center in San Francisco, California. She will be in residence at Djerassi Art Foundation in September 2009. Tamara lives and works in San Francisco.

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